2018 RI PROMO

Listen to Extract 3 (Track 3) on your CD and follow it from the score printed in the Insert. The
Extract is the third movement (Enter Two Girls) of Leonard Bernstein’s Fancy Free, first
performed in 1944.
Write a commentary on this Extract. Your commentary should draw attention to any points of
interest in the music, including the melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, form and orchestra. The
points you make in your commentary should be illustrated by detailed references to the score of
the Extract. You should also describe some of the ways in which this music is similar to or
different from any one or more of the Focus Works.

2019 NJC PRELIM

Track 3 is the overture of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Operetta (1956).

Write a commentary on this excerpt. Your commentary should draw attention to any points of
interest in the music, including the melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, form, orchestration and
style. The points you make in your commentary should be illustrated by detailed references to
the score of the excerpt.
You should also describe some of the ways in which this music is similar to or different from any
one or more of the Focus Works.

2019 TJC MCT

Listen to Track 3 on your MP3 player and follow it with the score printed in the Insert on pages 2
- 25. The extract consists of a section taken from Leonard Bernstein’s
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1960), titled Cool Fugue.

Write a commentary on this Extract. Your commentary should draw attention to any points of
interest in the music, including the melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm and orchestration, and
discuss the ways in which the style relates to other music composed in America at this time.
The points you make in your commentary should be illustrated by detailed references to the
score of the Extract. You should also describe some of the ways in which this music is similar to
or different from any one or more of the Focus Works.