This page was last edited on 02/03/06
This page was last edited on 02/03/06
- In the OCR GCSE examination you were required to listen to a tune and draw the shape a phrase as a graphic score. The exercises below were designed to help students gain experience in drawing graphic scores.
- Pupils had to notate the whole of each short tune whereas, in the real examination, they had to notate JUST the first phrase of a longer piece.
- Candidates found it hard to show the range of a tune because they did not use sufficient vertical space. How can an octave be represented by two symbols just half a centimetre apart?
- Candidates also tended to forget to show the relative length of notes.
Here are the 5 tunes
Hear them (All 5 played with a break between each)
Here are some possible answers. This is not the only way to draw them.
