Performing ARTS Questions and Answers - Grade 7 Opener Exams Term 2 2023 Set 4

QUESTIONS

Identify and name the following notes. (5 marks)

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6. Draw a treble clef on a staff. (2 marks)
7. The notes below lack variety. Without changing the number of bars and the time signature, create a rhythmic pattern using a variety of notes. (4marks)
   
   
   
8. State the methods that can be used to create rhythmic patterns. (5 marks)
9. Below is part of a verse. Comment on the poetic language used. (3 marks)
   
   If children stay inside, they can be snappy,
   If they go out, they will be happy.
   
   Define the following terms (4 marks)
10. Stepwise motion
11. Singability
12. Leaps up to a 3rd
13. Contour
14. How do we interpret a melody? (6 marks)

Read the verse below and answer the questions that follow. (5 marks)

Walls

Today my walls came crashing down
The walls that made me frown
Maybe tom row I will smile
Just for a while
When I let you in
I cannot hear the din
Today I will smile, yes smile
Just for a while

15. Which words achieve imagery in the verse?
16. Comment on the repetition of words.
17. Which words rhyme?
18. Name the qualities of a good melody. (5 marks)
    
    Name the three points in the structure of a skit numbered 19-21 (3 marks)
    
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22. Comment on the leap of the following (1 marks)
    dmssltissisfmfrfmrrd
23. What are the qualities of a good narrator? (4 marks)
24. Comment on the motion of the following: (1 marks)
    dddrmmmmfff
25. What is a skit?

MARKING SCHEME

1. dotted minim
2. semi-brave
3. Semi-quaver
4. minim
5. quaver
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7. Assess
8. Assess
9. this is when muak moves from a note to the Immediate note below or above it
10. If the next note to sing is predictable it means the melody is singable 
11. variations added to a melody that do not exceed leaps of more than a 3rd
12. this is the shape of the melody determined by movement of pitches from one to the next
13. Recognising key signature and the key notelnterpretation of time signature and note valuesidentifying melodic patterns in the song Singing the melody and hand signing the sol fa syllables InvolvedIdentification of clef Playing the melody on a melodic instrument
14. Crashing smile, frown,
15. It makes the poem sound musical and therefore easy to remember
16. down and frown smile and while, in and din 
17. Assess
18. It is in stepwise motion
    Singability
    Leaps up to a 3rd
    Has a contour
    It starts on doh, me or so and end on doh
19. Beginning
20. Middle/climax
21. End
22. Has a leap of up to a 3
23. Articulate, Uses the correct facial expressions
24. Stepwise motion
25. A skit is a short play that passes a message and is performed in front of people using props and costumes