Quicky online test "Could you pass GCSE music" - just for fun

koneguitarist

Dropped music as a subject soon as I could at school so never learnt anything of use. 
Funny thing is, the only two members who came consistently last during our music lessons were the only two who could actually play an instrument. 

TheBlueWolf

I passed this but failed my real GCSE Music back in '89.

Mkjackary

17, did the music gcse only a few years ago so should still ll be in there though.

Bear in mind, you are played each song 3 times  in full. And you have the whole year to learn 12 pieces, of which 4 or 6 or something will turn up.

Ou an hour before our test our teacher looked at the paper and told us the final essay was on the mozart piece so we nailed that test

maltingsaudio

10 so a pass ish wouild have been easior with a faster internet connection!

mynamesnotbob

My A* 20 years ago seems a long and distant memory, got 12 this time but suspect Mums not going to take me to Alton Towers to celebrate that!

Sporky

mynamesnotbob said:

My A* 20 years ago seems a long and distant memory, got 12 this time but suspect Mums not going to take me to Alton Towers to celebrate that!

Worth asking though, surely?

UnclePsychosis

19 for me. Stupid Steeleye Span song. 

Jalapeno

15/20 - Damn  maj/Min tonality - Still don't get how Steleye Span were singing in harmony and it was classed as Homophonic

viz

Homophonic is when all the parts change note happen at the same time. Polyphonic is when they don't. You're thinking of unison where the parts all move together, AND are all the same notes (or octaves thereof). 

Teetonetal

I took GCSE music in 1994. That god awful all around my hat was one of the pieces used then too.

Teetonetal

Jalapeno said:

15/20 - Damn  maj/Min tonality - Still don't get how Steleye Span were singing in harmony and it was classed as Homophonic

Because you don't know what homophonic means? 

accompanying parts should be the exact same rhythm as the melody.

uncledick

Never had a music lesson in my life which is probably why I scored 8.  Still a pass apparently.

Shark_Eyes

I got 10, despite the only thing I remember from music lessons was watching West Side Story and hating it.

paul_c2

This one's a little harder!

http://www.musictheory4u.com/Test-Paper-Grade-5-Music-Theory.html

I lost 4 marks on the questions where you could reveal answers, and couldn't really mark myself on qn.4

viz

Try this

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/ultimate-music-theory/

paul_c2

viz said:

Try this

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/ultimate-music-theory/

Yay! I got 11/20, although I really only deserve 9/20 because two were blind guesses I didn't know. I did get qn 10 right (identify the chord of the clarinet parts) although it took me about half an hour to work out.........

Neil

13, not too bad as I really dislike classical music.

newi123

erm 10 - I got an A in 1989........... maybe if they tested me on rock and blues here instead!

ennspek

viz said:

Homophonic is when all the parts change note happen at the same time. Polyphonic is when they don't. You're thinking of unison where the parts all move together, AND are all the same notes (or octaves thereof). 

I got it right because I thought it meant it was being sung by human beings.

olafgarten

koneguitarist said:

viz said:

19 didn't get the cor anglais. 

I still don't know what that is? 

It's the French getting revenge for the French Horn.