Edexcel GCSE and A level Music past paper audio extract details

24 July 2017

This news item includes details of the audio extracts from the legacy specifications for Edexcel GCSE and A level Music from the past exam papers.

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GCSE (2009) Music

Extract details for 5MU03 summer 2012 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract Timing
1 Mozart 1st movement of Symphony No. 40 in G minor 4.24 - 4.54
2 Chopin Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28 1.07 - 2.01
3 Schoenberg Peripetie’ from 5 orchestral pieces 0.00 - 0.30
4 Reich 3rd mov (fast) from Electric Counterpoint 2.05 - 2.39
5 Moby Why does my heart feel so dad 2.58 - 3.38
6 Jeff Buckley Grace Extract 1: 1.55 - 2.18
Extract 2: 4.06 - 4.32
7 Capercaillie Chuir M’Athair Mise Dhan Taigh Charraideach’, (Skye Waulking Song) 0.00 - 0.58
8 Steve Gorn and Benjy Wertheimer Rag Desh Alap (Track 7 from Anthology CD) : 0.00 - 0.39
Gat (Track 9 from Anthology CD): 0.00 - 0.39

Extract details for 5MU03 summer 2013 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract Timings
1 Handel And the Glory of the Lord from Messiah 0.40 - 1.01
2 Chopin Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28 2.26 - 3.24 
3 Bernstein ‘Something’s coming’ from West Side Story 1.18 - 1.40
4 Reich 3rd mov (fast) from Electric Counterpoint 3.17 - 4.25
5 Miles Davis All Blues 10.20 - 11.32
6 Jeff Buckley Grace 0.48 - 1.29
7 Koko Yiri 0.00 - 0.45
8 Steve Gorn and Benjy Wertheimer Rag Desh Gat (Track 8 from Anthology CD) 0.30 - 1.00
Gat (Track 9 from Anthology CD)  0.02 – 0.32

Extract details for 5MU03 summer 2014 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1 Mozart Ist movement of Symphony No. 40 in G minor Extract 1: 0.48 - 1.04 Extract 2: 6.02 - 6.19
2 Handel And the Glory of the Lord from Messiah, HWV 56 1.55 - 2.35
3 Schoenberg ‘Peripetie’ from 5 orchestral pieces 0.09 - 0.53
4 Bernstein Something’s Coming from West Side Story 0.00 - 0.21
5 Miles Davis All Blues from the album Kind of Blue 1.03 - 2.06
6 Moby Why does my heart feel so bad 2.56 - 4.20
7 Capercaillie ‘Chuir M’Athair Mise Dhan Taigh Charraideach’(Skye Waulking Song) 1.03 - 1.58
8 Koko Yiri 2.10 - 3.40

Extract details for 5MU03 summer 2015 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract Timings
1 Mozart Symphony no.40 in G minor 6.02 - 6.57
2 Chopin Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28 3.56 - 4.56
3 Reich 3rd mov (fast) from Electric Counterpoint: 0.00 - 1.27 
4 Bernstein Something’s coming from West Side Story 1.35 - 1.55
5 Moby Why does my heart feel so bad?

Extract 1: 1.38 - 2.17

Extract 2:2.59-3.57

6 Buckley Grace 3.00 - 3.41
7 Koko Yiri 4.31 - 5.36
8 Alok Bhatt Rag Desh 0.15 - 1.20

Extract details for 5MU03 summer 2016 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract Timings
1 Mozart 1st movement from Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550 3.44 - 4.27
2 F. Chopin  Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, Op.28 4.32 - 5.40
3 Schoenberg Peripetie from Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.16 1.08 - 1.48
4 Steve Reich  3rd movement (fast) from Electric Counterpoint 2.47 – 3.42
5 Miles Davis  All Blues from the album Kind of Blue 9.28 - 10.09
6 J.Buckley  Grace from the album Grace 0.47 - 1.29
7 Koko Yiri 2.10 - 2.56
8 Alok Bhatt Rag desh 0.00 - 1.15

AS and A level (2008) Music

Extract details for 6MU03 summer 2011 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1 Gershwin Summertime 0.04 - 1.12
2 Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op.33 No.2 ‘The Joke’ (4th movement) 0.00 - 0.59

Extract details for 6MU03 summer 2012 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1 Beethoven Septet in E-flat, Op. 20: 1 Adagio-Allegro Con Brio 1.37 - 2.37
2 Weelkes Sing We at Pleasure 0.54 - end

Extract details for 6MU03 summer 2013 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1 Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune 0.59 - 2.22
2 Monteverdi Ohime 1.15 - end

Extract details for 6MU03 summer 2014 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1 Haydn Symphony No. 26 in D Minor, 'Lamentatione' (movement I) 1.58 - 2.42
2 Desmond Dekker and the Aces You Can Get It If You Really Want 1.31 - 2.25

Extract details for 6MU03 summer 2015 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G (i) 0.57 - 1.50
2 Taverner The Lamb 0.00 - 1.52

Extract details for 6MU03 summer 2016 assessment.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1 Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra Mvt I 0.00 - 0.51
2 Bruckner Locus iste 0.00 - 1.34

Extract details for 6MU06 summer 2011 assessment.

*Extract timings may vary as the linked versions may not be exactly the same versions used in the exam.

Track Artist Track Extract Timings
1

Excerpt A: Vaughan Williams

Excerpt B: Vaughan Williams

Symphony No 4: IV Finale con epilogo fugato - allegro molto

Galliard of the Sons of Morning 

0.00 - 1.13


0.41 - 1.24

2 J.S. Bach Johannes Passion Appendix: Aria "Zerschmettert Mich" 0.00 - 2.04

Extract details for 6MU06 summer 2012 assessment.

*Extract timings may vary as the linked versions may not be exactly the same versions used in the exam.

Track Artist Track Extract Timings
1

Excerpt A: Stravinsky

Excerpt B: Stravinsky

Pantomime "Fa La La"

"I Have Not Run Away Dear Heart" 

0.00 - 1.00

0.00 - 1.04

2 Mozart Derek Han: The Complete Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol. Seven
Piano Concerto No.22 in Eb K.482 mvt II Andante
0.00 - 1.31

Extract details for 6MU06 summer 2013 assessment.

*Extract timings may vary as the linked versions may not be exactly the same versions used in the exam.

Track Artist Track Extract Timings
1

Excerpt A: Purcell

Excerpt B: Purcell

9 Fantasia A 4:IV. Fantazia in G Minor, Z, 735

The Indian Queen Z, 630: First Music - Second Aire

0.00 - 1.03

0.00 - end

2 Haydn Mass in B Flat 'Theresienmesse' 5. Benedictus 0.46 - 2.21

Extract details for 6MU06 summer 2014 assessment.

*Extract timings may vary as the linked versions may not be exactly the same versions used in the exam.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1

Excerpt A: Byrd

Excerpt B: Byrd

‘Justorum Animae'
'Christ rising again’ 

1.41 - end

0.00 - 0.45

2 Handel Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No.10: 3. Air (Lento) 0'00 - 1'52

Extract details for 6MU06 summer 2015 assessment.

*Extract timings may vary as the linked versions may not be exactly the same versions used in the exam.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1

Excerpt A: Ravel

Excerpt B: Ravel

Introduction and Allegro for Harp Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major II Blues Moderato

0'00 - 1'04

0'00 - 0'56

2 Beethoven O war ich schon mit dir vereint 0'00 - 1'34

Extract details for 6MU06 summer 2016 assessment.

*Extract timings may vary as the linked versions may not be exactly the same versions used in the exam.

Track Artist Track Extract timings
1

Excerpt A: Ewan MacColl

Excerpt B: The Whistlebinkies

Hughie the Graeme
Cam' ye o'er frae France

0'00 - 0'50

0'00 - 1'12

2 Mozart Quartet in D Major, K. 575 2nd movement: Andante 0'00 - 1'34
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