Music. Senior. 1. Add three bars to the following figured bass, and write the ground-notes underneath on a separate stave: 2. Write counterpoint of the first species in two parts to the following canto fermo, placing it alternately in the upper and lower part. Figure the bass: 3. Write the following in vocal score using the soprano (C clef on first line), alto, tenor, and bass staves: 4. Write two examples of authentic (perfect) cadence (in four parts) in the key of A flat major, two of plagal cadence in E minor, and three of imperfect cadences in D major. 5. Mark thus the beginning of each beat in the two following bars: Music. Women. 1. Write a short account of the history of one of the following composers, name his principal works, and discuss those characteristics which specially distinguish them from the earlier composers: Gluck, Mendelssohn, Chopin. 2. Contrast the operas of Mozart and Wagner, the sonatas of Haydn and Beethoven, and the Passion music of Sebastian Bach with the oratorios of Handel. 3. Add three parts to the following bass, using any harmonies you please. Figure the bass: 4. Harmonise the following melody in four parts: 5. Write counterpoint of the first species in four parts to the following canto fermo, placing it alternately in all the parts. Write the exercise in score: 6. Analyse the chords in the Allegretto of Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, referring to the number of the chord. In inversions give the number of the inversion and the ground-note in all cases. GENERAL EXAMINATION PAPERS FOR CHILDREN. For directions for those who send their papers to the Examiners for 10-12 2-8 وو وو also page 244, Nos. 1, 2, 6, 7. Junior History, omitting the questions of which the numbers are in brackets, p. 244. 1. Whence did the English people come to settle in Britain? Who were the former inhabitants of the island? Mention Mention any of their customs you may know. 2. Write a short account of Richard Coeur de Lion. Do you think he was a good king? Give reasons for your answer. 3. Describe, as if you saw it, any two scenes in English History which you can remember. 4. Tell as much as you can of your favourite character in English History. 5. Give the dates of (i) the accession of William I., Stephen, Richard I., Henry III., Edward III., Henry IV., Richard II., Henry VII., Elizabeth, Charles I., William III., Victoria; (ii) the battles of Senlac, Lewes, Bannockburn, Crecy, Agincourt, St. Albans, Naseby, Waterloo; (iii) the signing of Magna Charta. 6. Which English king had at his accession the most extensive possessions in France? How had he obtained them? 7. Why did Edward III. go to war with France? Give as full a description of his French wars as possible, noting particularly to what division of the army his victories were due. 8. Give a short account of the life of Edward the Black Prince, Henry V., Cardinal Wolsey, Mary Queen of Scots, Charles I., the Duke of Wellington. 1. Explain the terms: island, peninsula, continent, coast, river, lake, sea, watershed, town, village. Mention one of each. 2. In what direction, N. S. E. or W., are the following towns from the place in which you write? Edinburgh, Brighton, Winchester, Cambridge, Liverpool, Landaff, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Calcutta, and New York. 3. Name the country, and for the English towns the counties also, in which all the places mentioned in question 2 are situated. 4. Mention three towns, not given in this paper, in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and Turkey. 5. Give reasons why: (i) rivers should flow into the sea. (ii) snow should remain on the tops of high mountains. (iii) the seas should be salt. (iv) India should be hotter than England. 6. What are the most important industries of England? Where are they mainly carried on? 7. Name and give the positions of the mountain chains of Asia. In what general direction do they run? What effect has their direction on the rivers of Asia? 8. Name the rivers of America. Say in what direction they flow, and whether they are in North or South America. 9. Give the positions of our most important foreign possessions. Describe the physical features of New Zealand, and name four towns in it. 10. Draw, from memory, a map of England; in it give the most important mountains, rivers, and lakes, also twelve towns. 11. In an outline map of Africa, give mountains, rivers, lakes, countries, and six towns. 12. Explain the term, climate. What causes regulate climate? 1. Define a noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition. Give five sentences containing one example of each, and underlining the example. 2. How many different kinds of nouns are there? Give two examples of each. 3. Explain the words, inflexion, person, tense, number. 4. Write out all the verbs in the following passage, and say in what tense and person they are used: "Please your honours," said he, "I'm able On creatures that do people harm.” 5. Name the degrees of comparison. What parts of speech are inflected for comparison? Give rules for the inflection, and compare tall, good, bad, ill, pleasant, sweet, quickly, tender, beautiful, ugly. 6. Quote, from memory, a piece of poetry (not less than ten lines), and say what part of speech each word in the first two lines is. 7. Distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs, strong and weak conjugations. Give the past tense and past participle of the following verbs, and state whether they are transitive or intransitive, strong or weak: cost, sing, love, help, smite, talk, leave, help, dig, lie, lay, dare, wind, wax, seem. 8. What are the essential parts of a sentence? How may those parts be enlarged? |