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Junior Cycle Music: Graphic scores & found sounds

How often Graphic scores & found sounds comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Graphic scores & found sounds, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Graphic scores & found sounds.

(a)A graphic score shows sounds mainly by using…
  1. Only standard staff notation
  2. Shapes, lines and pictures
  3. Only chord symbols and lyrics
(b)In composing, found sounds are…
  1. Sounds played by an orchestra
  2. Notes found in the treble clef
  3. Everyday non-instrument sounds
(c)On a graphic score, a shape that grows bigger from left to right most likely shows…
  1. A sound getting louder
  2. A sound stopping suddenly
  3. A sound getting shorter
Show the answers

(a) Shapes, lines and pictures

(b) Everyday non-instrument sounds

(c) A sound getting louder

Your turn: Common Level questions on Graphic scores & found sounds.

Common Level

Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q4c
2025Q4a
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

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