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Leaving Cert Music: Deane: Seachanges

How often Deane: Seachanges 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.

Deane: Seachanges, Higher Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Deane: Seachanges.

(a)When was Raymond Deane's Seachanges (with Danse Macabre) composed?
  1. 1893
  2. 1993
  3. 1963
(b)What is the Dies Irae, on which Seachanges is built?
  1. A chorale harmonised by J. S. Bach
  2. An Irish slow air from Connemara
  3. A plainchant from the Requiem Mass
(c)Piano and marimba play chord clusters in Seachanges. What is a chord cluster?
  1. Several adjacent notes sounded together
  2. A chord built from stacked perfect 5ths
  3. A broken chord played upwards, note by note
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(a) 1993

(b) A plainchant from the Requiem Mass

(c) Several adjacent notes sounded together

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Deane: Seachanges.

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
2022Q3
2021Q2
2019Not asked
2018Not asked
2017Not asked
2016Q4

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

More Deane: Seachanges questions

Deane: Seachanges, 3 marks

How does the alto flute in G sound compared to its written notes?

  1. An octave higher
  2. At the written pitch
  3. A perfect 4th lower
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A perfect 4th lower

It is a transposing instrument: a written C sounds as the G below. The piccolo, also used in Seachanges, sounds an octave higher than written.

Deane: Seachanges, 2 marks

How does a flautist produce flutter-tonguing?

  1. By tapping the keys without blowing
  2. By rolling an r while blowing
  3. By humming while playing
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By rolling an r while blowing

The rolled r makes the air stream flutter, giving a buzzing, rattling tone. It is one of the extended techniques Deane uses in Seachanges.

Deane: Seachanges, 2 marks

How is sound produced on the guiro, one of the percussion instruments in Seachanges?

  1. Scraping a stick along ridges
  2. Striking tuned wooden bars
  3. Shaking beads inside a gourd
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Scraping a stick along ridges

The guiro is a Latin American notched gourd or wooden tube. Striking tuned wooden bars describes the marimba; shaking describes maracas.

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
2022Q3
2021Q2
2019Not asked
2018Not asked
2017Not asked
2016Q4

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

More Deane: Seachanges questions

Deane: Seachanges, 2 marks

Seachanges uses changes of register. What does register mean?

  1. How loud or soft the music is
  2. How fast or slow the music is
  3. How high or low the notes are
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How high or low the notes are

Register is the part of the pitch range being used: high, middle or low. Deane moves instruments between extreme high and low registers for contrast.

Deane: Seachanges, 2 marks

Which medieval plainchant does Deane use in Seachanges?

  1. Adeste Fideles
  2. Dies Irae
  3. Ave Maria
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Dies Irae

Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) is a chant from the Latin Mass for the dead. Composers quote it to suggest death, as Deane does.

Deane: Seachanges, 2 marks

Which instrument plays in Deane's Seachanges?

  1. Marimba
  2. Trumpet
  3. Clarinet
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Marimba

Deane writes for piccolo and alto flute, percussion including marimba, piano, violin and cello. There is no brass and no clarinet.

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