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Junior Cycle Music: Texture

How often Texture comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

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

Texture, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Texture.

(a)A single melody line with no accompaniment, even if many people perform it, has which texture?
  1. Homophonic
  2. Monophonic
  3. Polyphonic
(b)A choir all sing exactly the same notes at the same time. They are singing in…
  1. Canon
  2. Harmony
  3. Unison
(c)A leader sings a line and the group replies with an answering line. This is…
  1. Call and response
  2. Unison singing
  3. Theme and variations
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(a) Monophonic

(b) Unison

(c) Call and response

Your turn: Common Level questions on Texture.

Common Level

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

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q1a, Q1b, Q2a, Q2b
2025Q3b
2024Q1c, Q2c, Q5b
2023Q3b, Q6a
2022Q5c

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

More Texture questions

Texture, 2 marks

One voice copies a short phrase that another voice has just sung. This is called…

  1. Unison
  2. Modulation
  3. Imitation
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Imitation

In imitation, a part repeats a phrase just heard in another part, sometimes at a different pitch. A canon is strict imitation that lasts all the way through.

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