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Leaving Cert Music: Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs

How often Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 3 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2022.

OL Asked on 3 of the last 9 Ordinary Level papers, most recently in 2022.

Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs, Higher Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs.

(a)In which year was the album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released?
  1. 1963
  2. 1967
  3. 1975
(b)How does the title track Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band begin?
  1. With church bells ringing in the distance
  2. With a solo harp playing a slow arpeggio
  3. With audience chatter and an orchestra tuning up
(c)In She's Leaving Home, what do the answering backing vocals represent?
  1. The parents' reaction
  2. A radio announcer
  3. The girl's boyfriend
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(a) 1967

(b) With audience chatter and an orchestra tuning up

(c) The parents' reaction

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs.

Higher Level

Asked on 3 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2022.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Q4
2021Q4
2019Not asked
2018Not asked
2017Not asked
2016Q3

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

More Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs questions

Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs, 2 marks

Which is a rock feature of the title track Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

  1. A clarinet trio
  2. A harp introduction
  3. Distorted electric guitar
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Distorted electric guitar

Rock features include distorted lead guitar, electric bass and drum kit. The clarinet trio belongs to When I'm Sixty-Four and the harp to She's Leaving Home.

Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs, 2 marks

What metre is She's Leaving Home in?

  1. Compound 6/8 jig time
  2. Triple time, like a waltz
  3. A 4/4 rock beat
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Triple time, like a waltz

The gentle three-in-a-bar lilt and the flowing harp and strings suit the song's tender, sad story.

Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs, 2 marks

Which woodwind instruments feature in When I'm Sixty-Four?

  1. Two clarinets and a bass clarinet
  2. A flute, a piccolo and a bassoon
  3. Two oboes and a cor anglais
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Two clarinets and a bass clarinet

The clarinet trio gives an old-fashioned, humorous band colour that suits the music hall style of the song.

Ordinary Level

Asked on 3 of the last 9 Ordinary Level papers, most recently in 2022.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Q4
2021Q4
2019Not asked
2018Not asked
2017Not asked
2016Q3

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

More Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs questions

Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs, 2 marks

In what year was the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released?

  1. 1963
  2. 1975
  3. 1967
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1967

It came out in 1967. It is famous for its studio experiments and for being planned as a whole album, a concept album.

Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs, 2 marks

Who wrote the Beatles songs on the course?

  1. Jagger and Richards
  2. Lennon and McCartney
  3. Harrison and Starr
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Lennon and McCartney

The songs are credited to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the Beatles' main songwriting team.

Beatles: Sgt Pepper songs, 2 marks

Which classical instruments play a passage in the title track Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

  1. French horns
  2. Harps
  3. Oboes
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French horns

The title song mixes rock (electric guitars, drum kit) with a quartet of French horns, a classical touch.

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