Practice paper 2 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: ‘Finale’, and Courtney Pine, Back in the Day: ‘Inner State (of Mind)’
• Q4 dictation question
• Q5 unfamiliar listening essay question
• Q6 set work essay questions taken from Edexcel’s (Additional) Sample Assessment Materials on Bach, Ein Feste Burg, BWV 80: Movement I, Kate Bush, Hounds of Love: ‘Cloudbusting’ and ‘And Dream of Sheep’ and Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring: Introduction
• Resource booklet with skeleton scores for Q1–3
• Audio file for Q4 dictation
• Full mark scheme for Q1–3, solution for Q4 and indicative content for Q5
• Timings of audio excerpts for Q1–3 (given in mark scheme)

What’s not included

• Q6 set work essay question on the Anoushka Shankar set work (but this is relatively easy to formulate compared with Q1–5)
• Mark schemes for Q6 (which can be found in the Edexcel (Additional) Sample Assessment Materials)
• 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 available on the Anthology CD and timings are given in the mark scheme
  • Q5 audio available online