Year 10 Listening Scaffold Sheet

Use the following worksheet to help you scaffold your answer to the questions at the end of the sheet. 

The first thing you need to do when hearing the musical example is to complete the table below. 

The basic idea is WHEN, WHO, WHAT of the example. Use as many details as you can to complete the Observations section.

If you click on the picture you can download and print as many as you need to practise your listening skills. To find questions you might like to look at some past HSC music 1 exams to see what types of questions are asked in this type of exam.

Here are some questions you could try...

• How are the concepts of pitch and duration explored in this excerpt? 
• Describe how musical interest is created in this excerpt.
• Describe how unity and contrast have been achieved in this excerpt. 

You can find past papers here.