Monday 9 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level Music
H543/05 Listening and appraising
Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
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Scheme Combined June 2025)
,INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided. If you need extra
space use the lined pages at the end of this booklet. The question numbers
must be clearly shown.
• Answer all the questions in Sections A and B.
• Answer two questions in total in Section C from two different Areas of Study.
• If you have music examples as part of your answer, use the music
manuscript page at the end of this booklet. The question numbers must be
clearly shown.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 120.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document has 20 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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🖸 Tracks 1–4 are the music extracts for Section A and Section B. You can listen to them as
many times as you like.
Section A
1 🖸 Track 1 is a recording from Area of Study 2: Popular Song: Blues, Jazz, Swing and Big
Band.
The extract is ‘You Make Me Feel So Young’ by Josef Myrow & Mack Gordon. The singer
is Barry Manilow, recorded in 1998.
A lead sheet of the song is provided: Extract 1 in the
Insert. The lyrics sung on the recording are below:
You make me feel so young,
You make me feel so spring has
sprung, And ev’ry time I see you
grin,
I’m such a happy
individual. The moment
that you speak,
I wanna go play hide and seek,
I wanna go and bounce the
moon Just like a toy balloon.
You and I
Are just like a couple of tots,
Running across the meadow,
Picking up lots of forget-me-
nots.
You make me feel so young,
You make me feel there are songs to be
sung, Bells to be rung,
And a wonderful fling should be
flung. And even when I’m old and
gray
I’m going to feel the way I do today,
’Cause, you make me feel so
young.
(Instrumental)
You and I
Are just like a couple of tots,
Running across the meadow,
Picking up lots of forget-me-
nots.
’Cause you make me
young, Give me songs to
be sung, Feel like bells
should be rung,
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And a wonderful fling to be
flung. And even when I’m old
and gray I’m gonna feel the
way I do today, ’Cause, you
make me feel so, You make
me feel so,
You make me
feel, I feel so
young.
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