CKC Mock exam level 3

CKC Mock exam level 3

Rhythm work:

1. Clap the following two pieces of rhythm with saying out loud the rhythm names:

2.Clap the rhythm then memorize it. Now clap it and say out loud the rhythm names from memory:

Scale work.

3.Listen to the following 4 diatonic scales and identify them: Which diatonic scalesdo you hear? Example:(major, harmonic minor, etc.):

4.Sing a natural minor scale with solfa names adding handsigns. (Curwen handsigns).Now sing it with letter names starting from'C’.

Sing a melodic minor scale with solfa names adding handsigns. Now sing it with letter names starting from'G’

Sing a major diatonic scale with solfa names adding handsigns. Now sing it with letter names starting from 'E’:

5a. Sing the three types of the minor scale (natural, harmonic and melodic) from the following letter names: Fis (F sharp), B and D. Sing them first with solfa:

5b. Sing again the three types of the minor scale form 'D' adding your piano play. Start singing the scale, follow with your piano playing in a canon after two beats. Perform it first with solfa, then with letter names. Start with natural minor, then harmonic and lastly melodic minors. Always perform them ascending and descending:

For the melodic minors only sing don’t add the canon part

Melody work:

6. Sight sing this melody with solfa names. (Always keep the pulse with tapping your finger). Start on a comfortable pitch:

Memory work:

7.Listen to the following short melody (5 times). Singit back with solfa names starting on the solfa pitch 'so ':

8.Now write it down with stick notation:

9.Convert it to staff notation, starting on the letter name 'B'. 'B' is your 'so’.

Part work, polyphony:

10.Sight sing first the upper then the lower part of the following piece. Sing them a few times, then sing them with the recordings. Sing them with solfa:

11. Sing both parts (with playing the piano) of the other part. Meaning: When you singthe upper part, you play on the piano the lower part. When you sing the lowerpart, you play on the piano the upper part:  Sing wilh sofag .

12.Sight sing the following piece. Sing it a few times then add handsigns (Curwen handsigns) to your singing:

13.Sing the piece with letter names:

14.Now sing the piece again with solfa names and add a base line (with playing the piano) that will suit the melody. Use the following solfa names and functions:

'do’ -Tonic, 'so’-Dominant,  'fa'-Subdominant:

Dictation and notating skills:

15.Name the following 10 intervals (from the diatonic scales). Only write down their names: Example:m2 m7  M7  etc. You will hear each interval twice:

16.Name the following 5 triads and build them from the letter name 'D’: You will hear only root positions. You will hear each triad twice:

17.Write down with stick notation the following melody. You will hear it 5 times:

18. Write down with staff notation the following two-part melody. You will hear it 9 times:

Transformation work:

19a. Transform this melody from major to harmonic minor. Your original starting note 'do' will be now 'la':

19b. Write the harmonic minor version down on the stave. Your 'la' is 'G’.

Structure, form, improvising, composing:

20.Create a melody within the given form and toneset. Make sure it's singable and beautiful. Sing it out loud with solfa names then with 'la-la', then add a singable,suitable base line using the functions: Tonic, Dominant and Subdominant.

Harmony work:

21. Sing up and down the triads of the major diatonic scale with solfa names using each note of the scale:

22.Sing the triads again and identify all the triads: Major, minor and diminished:

23.Sing the triads now with letter names, starting on 'A' ('A' will be your 'do’):

24.Sing up and down the triads of the harmonic minor scale with solfa names usingeach note of the scale:

25.Sing the triads again and identify all the triads: Major, minor, diminished and augmented:

26.Sing the triads now with letter names starting on 'C’ ('C' will be your 'la'):