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THEORY SURVEY: Score Analysis
To the right are bars 22 to 43 of the Fourth Movement in Bb major of
Schubert’s Fifth Symphony. It is scored for flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons,
horns in B flat, and strings. (Cellos and basses read the same line.)
Below are most types of questions asked in examinations. If you find them
difficult, you would be advised to take the Score Analysis module.
Rhythm
1. Quote the number of a bar in which syncopation occurs.
2. Which one word can describe the difference in rhythm between the
violin parts in bars 35 and 36 and the flute part in bars 37 and 38?
Harmony
3. Describe the chords used in the last two quavers of bar 30.
4. Which cadence appears in bar 33?
5. Write out the chord progression used in bars 35-38.
6. Quote the bar number of an augmented sixth chord.
7. What is the key at bar 39?
Texture
8. Comment on the use of imitation in this extract.
9. Quote the bar numbers of ONE use of pedal point.
10. Compare the way in which the violin and viola parts move from the
second quaver of bar 27 to the first quaver of bar 29.
Other
11. Compare bars 23 and 24 with bars 27 and 28.
12. Which musical devices are used in bars 27-31?
13. Identify a use of sequence, quoting bar numbers and instruments.
14. What is the meaning of a2 in bar 28?
15. Give the bar number and instrument(s) of a suspension.
16. When does the subject begin its appearance?
17. Write out the parts played in bars 27-28 by horns (at concert pitch) in
the left staff and by bassoons in the right staff.
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