AS / A Level Eduqas Practice Exercises for Listening: Area of Study C: Musical Theatre

Covers Eduqas’s musical elements:
  • structure
  • tonality
  • texture
  • melody
  • sonority
  • harmonic language
  • tempo, metre and rhythm
  • dynamics

Essential packs prepare students for Section 1 of the Appraising exam. Students can’t know what music will come up in the exam, but they can have all of the analytical tools at their disposal!

Each resource contains 10 sets of exercises packed with practice on Eduqas’s Areas of Study that gradually build in difficulty:

  1. Start with warm-up exercises to build confidence
  2. Proceed to longer-answer questions to improve technique
  3. Progress naturally to exam-style questions to apply knowledge

Nice variety of question type clearly mirroring Eduqas exam methodology

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As students work through each of the carefully structured tasks they will:

  • revise key terminology
  • listen to music analytically
  • improve their aural skills
  • draw links between works

Answers to all questions provided – easy to set and quick to mark!

Area of Study C: Musical Theatre

Ten sets of exercises covering all six of the named composers for this tuneful AoS: Richard Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Schwartz.

Start with warm-up exercises to revise key terms and concepts for the area, then move on to short-answer questions and 10-mark comparison questions for full practice.