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Leaving Cert Music: Ornamentation & regional styles

How often Ornamentation & regional styles comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 6 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2024. most years

Ornamentation & regional styles, Higher Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Ornamentation & regional styles.

(a)What is a roll in Irish melody playing?
  1. A long held note decorated with a slow vibrato
  2. A group of notes decorating a note with a cut and a tap
  3. A fast scale played up the whole range of the instrument
(b)The cran is an ornament mainly associated with which instrument?
  1. Concertina
  2. Tenor banjo
  3. Uilleann pipes
(c)Sliabh Luachra, on the Cork-Kerry border, is famous for which tune types?
  1. Polkas and slides
  2. Waltzes and marches
  3. Strathspeys and highlands
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(a) A group of notes decorating a note with a cut and a tap

(b) Uilleann pipes

(c) Polkas and slides

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Ornamentation & regional styles.

Higher Level

Asked on 6 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2024. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Not asked
2024Q5Bi
2023Not asked
2022Q5Bi
2021Q5Biii
2019Q5Bii
2018Q5Bii
2017Not asked
2016Q5Biv

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

More Ornamentation & regional styles questions

Ornamentation & regional styles, 3 marks

Martin Hayes is known for which fiddle style?

  1. The fast, single-bowed Donegal style
  2. The ornate Sligo style of 1920s New York
  3. The slow, lyrical East Clare style
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The slow, lyrical East Clare style

Hayes, from Co. Clare, plays with a relaxed, flowing rhythm and a sweet tone, a style associated with East Clare and the Tulla area.

Ornamentation & regional styles, 2 marks

What is double stopping on the fiddle?

  1. Playing with two bows held together
  2. Bowing two strings at the same time
  3. Stopping the tune twice in each part
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Bowing two strings at the same time

Double stops sound two notes at once, often a melody note with an open string as a drone. It is a feature of some Donegal fiddle playing.

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