Balearic PAU Music & Dance case studies
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The Balearic PAU subject Música i Dansa is the university-access examination taken by students in the Balearic Islands who choose the music and dance option within the regional university entrance procedure. It is intended for upper-secondary students who want the subject to count toward their access score for degrees in music, dance, education, humanities, communication or cultural management, and for conservatory or dance-school students who need a university entrance qualification alongside their artistic training. The Balearic PAU Music & Dance case studies are 5 cases and about 2,127 words.
1Deciding a period label from a single listening excerpt
During a mock aural test, the class hears a 45-second excerpt twice: a small string ensemble with harpsichord, a solo violin, a repeated orchestral refrain, terraced dynamic changes, trills at cadences, and a clear 3/4 Allegro pulse. One student calls it a Romantic violin concerto because the soloist is virtuosic; another says Baroque because of the harpsichord and ornaments.
415 words, about 2 min2Correcting form and cadence labels in an eight-bar passage
An analysis exercise gives an eight-bar passage in 6/8 with a key signature of two sharps. The first four-bar phrase ends with the melody on scale degree 2 over a bass on the dominant; the second four-bar phrase repeats the rhythmic idea but ends with the melody on scale degree 1 over a bass on the tonic.
443 words, about 2 min3Labelling a school programme of ball de bot and fusion
At a cultural centre in Palma, a youth group is billed as 'Jota Mallorquina' for a school concert. Its 30-minute programme includes 'Copeo de Muro', 'Mateixa', a 'Fandango', and a new choreography for electric bass, drum kit and two dancers.
448 words, about 2 min4Curating a 'Balearic' playlist across tradition and club culture
A streaming platform plans a 20-track playlist called 'Balearic Sounds: From Tradition to Club.' The provisional list mixes a field recording of a traditional Balearic dance, 1980s Ibiza club tracks associated with the 'Balearic beat' label, a trap remix that samples a jota, and a hotel flamenco show recorded in Mallorca. The platform wants no explanatory notes, short genre tags only, and has not cleared several field recordings.
393 words, about 2 min5Prioritising historically informed choices in a mixed programme
A student ensemble is rehearsing a programme of a 16th-century Spanish villancico, a Baroque da capo aria with continuo, and a Romantic piano-accompanied song. In rehearsal, the singer adds elaborate trills and a cadenza to the villancico; the continuo cellist plans to play the bass line exactly as printed with no chords; the conductor asks for heavy portamento in the Baroque aria; the pianist uses the sustain pedal throughout the Romantic song.
428 words, about 2 min