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Grade 9: Arts & music subject test

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1. Original brief: help a reader follow a garden route. Required information must remain visible, with decorative detail secondary. Which proposed hierarchy follows that purpose?Make decoration cover the required instructionRemove all text labels and the keyChoose visual appeal only and ignore the stated reader taskGive the information needed to follow a garden route primary space; keep decoration separate

2. For a supplied perspective model, projected width is constantK divided by distance. At distance4, width is24 units. What width does the same model give at distance8?12 units13 units11 units14 units

3. Original image evidence: a muted field surrounds one brighter patch. Which argument uses that feature without inventing intent or universal response?The feature proves the maker’s entire biographyThis arrangement may support a stated emphasis or relationship; explain how a muted field surrounds one brighter patch serves that readingEvery viewer must experience the same emotionNo interpretation can use visible features

4. An original process record dates rough thumbnail7, first draft9, criterion check16, revised draft18. A portfolio explanation focuses on revision criterion1. Which record order lets a reviewer trace that process?revised draft → criterion check → first draft → rough thumbnailrough thumbnail → revised draft → first draft → criterion checkrough thumbnail → first draft → criterion check → revised draftcriterion check → rough thumbnail → first draft → revised draft

5. The supplied Bb major scale spelling is ['Bb', 'C', 'D', 'Eb', 'F', 'G', 'A', 'Bb']. Number degrees 1–8. Which note is degree 6?CDEG

6. Supplied upward interval A→F above spans 6 letter positions inclusively and 8 semitones. Use the given classification: third 3=m3, third 4=M3, fourth 5=P4, fifth 7=P5, sixth 8=m6, octave 12=P8. Which fits?minor sixthmajor thirdminor thirdperfect fourth

7. Three fixed voices begin at pitch-numbers[66, 70, 73]. Which supplied voicing of the target pitch classes minimizes the sum of each voice’s absolute pitch movement?[78, 81, 85][66, 69, 73][54, 57, 61][54, 81, 85]

8. Original audiovisual plan: show the new image at second 10, begin its sound at that same cue, and hold both for 2 seconds. Which cue row is synchronized?Image starts 10; sound starts 11; both end 12Both start 10; both end 13Image and sound start 10; both end 12Both start 11; both end 13

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