Practice paper for Edexcel A-level Music 2022

A practice paper for Edexcel A-level Music tailored to the advance information for summer 2022.

What’s included

• Q1–3 listening questions on Clara Wieck-Schumann, Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17: movement 1, Bernard Herrmann, Psycho: ‘Prelude’, and Courtney Pine, Back in the Day: ‘Love and Affection’
• Q4 dictation question
• Q5 unfamiliar listening essay question on John Williams: ‘Flying Theme’ from ET
• Q6 set work essay questions on Bach, Ein Feste Burg, BWV 80: Movement II and Kate Bush, Hounds of Love: ‘Cloudbusting’ and ‘Under Ice’
• Resource booklet with skeleton scores for Q1–3
• Audio file for Q4 dictation
• Full mark scheme for Q1–4 and indicative content for Q5–6
• Timings of audio excerpts for Q1–3 (given in mark scheme)

What’s not included

• Q6 set work essay questions on the Stravinsky and Anoushka Shankar set works, but these are relatively easy to formulate compared with Q1–5
• Illustrative excerpts from the Anthology for Q6 (for copyright reasons)
• Assessment criteria grids for Q4–6 (see past papers)
• Audio files for Q1–3 and Q5 (for copyright reasons), but Q1–3 audio is available on the Anthology CD and timings are given in the mark scheme, and Q5 audio is available on the New Anthology of Music CD from the old Edexcel A-level Music specification or online