BOSTES 2010 HSC Music 1 Aural Skills - Markers Guidelines and Feedback

In better responses, candidates:

• provided well-organised, chronological sequential responses
• used musical terminology effectively
• focused on pitch and duration and related them to other concepts
• discussed the use of both pitch and duration in the excerpt
• identified and clearly discussed many contrasts.

In weaker responses, candidates:

• provided poorly organised responses
• did not specify areas/sections to which they referred
• focused on pitch as high or low
• often confused the terms rhythm and beat
• frequently made generalisations
• frequently used terminology incorrectly or included terms which were irrelevant
• often wrote in narrative form with few specific references to musical events.