Music 2 Resource Kit – Score Reading questions

“Hectic Jacaranda” Score Reading questions

Resources :

• Full score of “Hectic Jacaranda” provided to students
• Questions provided to students
• Sound system to play the music during student activity

Score reading questions

1. What style of notation is used and explain how it is read? 
2. What kind of instruments does this form of notation relate to?
3. What symbol is used in bars 2-6 (and often throughout the work) and what does it mean?
4. What symbol is used at bars 31-2 (and often throughout the work) and what does it mean?
5. Explain why some labelled cells of music (the circled numbers and letters above each bar) use only a number or both a number and letter? eg. 3, or 4a / 4b.
6. Identify 2 other examples of numbered cells that use lettered variations, list the letters used in that number group and describe the difference between the lettered variations in each number group.
7. Describe the effect that is created by the dynamics at bar 49.
8. Describe the effect that is created by the dynamics at bar 66.
9. List all types of accents used throughout and explain the effect of each.
10. What is the time signature and how is this normally grouped and accented? 
11. Identify 2 examples of cells of music that clearly emphasise regular timing and accents of the time signature between the two instruments, and 2 example of cells of music that are working against the regular timing and accents of the time signature? (consider the groupings of notes used in a single bar between the two instruments and where the notes, and stronger dynamics land in the bar).
12. Consider cells 1, 2 and 3 as one group in the intro, and cells 26, 27 and 28 as one group in the outro – explain similarities and differences between the two groups of cells of music.