CIE IGCSE Music Practice Listening Paper

This is not an o*icial past paper, but my attempt to emulate some of the question
styles to provide a helpful revision resource.

Click here to access the Spotify playlist of the pieces.

The extracts are:

1. Bruch’s Violin Concerto 1: 3 Allegro Energico – Listen from the start and then up
to 1 minute and 25 seconds
2. Libertango by Astor Piazzolla - Listen to the music from 41 seconds to 1 minute
and 50 seconds.
3. Vivaldi’s ‘L'estro armonico, Op. 3, Libro primo, Concerto a quattro violini No. 4 in
E Minor, RV 550: I. Andante’ – Stop around 1 minute and 25 seconds.
4. The Third Sanctuary by Toby Fox – Listen from 3 minutes and 3 seconds to the
end.
5. Never Enough from The Greatest Showman – Listen to the whole song
6. Knowing by Michael Ibrahim – Listen up to 1 minute and 40 seconds.
7. Prussian Quartet No.2 K589, I. Allegro by W.A. Mozart – Listen up to 1 minute and
49 seconds.
8. El Cantante by Héctor Lavoe – Listen up to 1 minute and 30 seconds.

, Extract 1 is taken from AoS3: Romantic Music.

Listen to the extract 4 times




1. Suggest an appropriate tempo marking: [1]
o Allegro Moderato
o Andante
o Grave
o Vivace
2. Which family of instruments plays at the start of the piece? [1]
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3. Describe the music in bars 1-18. [2]
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4. In bar 19, which instrument takes the melody? [1]
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5. Describe the accompaniment after the soloist enters. [2]
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6. Name at least two features of this extract which are typical of the Romantic
period. [2]