On this page you will find Music Grade 12 NSC Paper 1 and Paper 2 Exam Topics and Structure Guide from the CAPS syllabus.
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Paper 1 Exam Topics Music Grade 12
Section A: Music Literacy
- Rudiments of music
- Harmonisation and harmonic analysis (traditional and jazz harmonisation)
- Melody writing (WAM)
- For IAM and Jazz/Afrophonia, chord constructions, progressions, modes of major, harmonic and melodic minor scales, blues, pentatonic, symmetric scales, voicing and connection of scales, basic and advanced substitution and polychords.
Section B: General Music Knowledge
- As set out for Grade 12 in Section 3
Paper 2 Exam Topics Music Grade 12
Section A: Aural
- Recognise differences or mistakes, cadences, intervals, chords, time signatures, rhythms, scales, non-harmonic notes, compositional techniques
- Write dictation:
- IAM and Jazz/Afrophonia : [In call and response: draw from praise singing, historical chronicles, making contextual commentary, use of phoneasthetics, crepitations, stage direction, mouth drumming, – Call and refrain, Call and Chorus and refrain, the mixed structural form, overlapping]
Section B: Recognition
- Genres
- Style period
- Instruments
- Voices