Pipe Band Association (Singapore)
INTERMEDIATE CERTIFICATE SYLLABUS
Bagpipe
Syllabus prepared by the
MUSIC BOARD of the PIPE BAND ASSOCIATION (SINGAPORE)
©2012
INTERMEDIATE CERTIFICATE SYLLABUS
Major Reference
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, Structured Learning Book 2 (The Intermediate Certificate)
Recommended texts for all levels of examination
The Great Highland Bagpipe, Alan Wallace 2007 |
Piping and Drumming, An Integrated Approach, Vol 1-8, S.H. Bailie 1986 |
The AB Guide to Music Theory, Vol 1-2 Eric Taylor – ABRSM 1991 |
Theory of Music
Sound: Sound Production – Instruments of the Orchestra and other Ensembles, Consonance and Dissonance, Integrated Tuning of the Pipe Band Instruments.
Notation: Intervals and Degrees of the Diatonic Scale, Accidentals, the Mixolydian Scale, Melody and Harmony, Transposition.
Rhythm and Tempo: Compound and Asymmetric Time, Corresponding Time, Irregular Grouping, Syncopation.
Structure: The Motive, The Phrase, The Sentence, Binary Form
Music Writing
Write neatly, from memory, on the manuscript provided, a March (simple duple), Strathspey and Reel, each of four or more parts. The scores should incorporate a variety of rudiments, as those included in the Practical Section of this syllabus.
The scores should include all notation and markings that are appropriate to accepted musical convention.
Instrumental (Practical)
On Practice Chanter:
Play correctly; exercises, as presented by the examiner, in particular, those from the RSPBA Structured Learning Book 2, pages 2.19.1 to 2.19.9.
Display the ability to sight read and play, with a high degree of accuracy, selected passages from a four parted MSR, presented by the examiner.
On Bagpipe:
Display the ability to set the Chanter Reed and tune the bagpipe to a high degree of accuracy.
Play proficiently a selection of tunes; to include Slow Air, Compound Time March and a Hornpipe:- the March and Hornpipe to be of four parts or more.
Play proficiently a March (simple duple), Strathspey and Reel, each of four parts. (this MSR to consist of the tunes selected for the Music Writing section of this examination).
The tunes must include a variety of Grace Notes and Doublings, as those included in the Practice Chanter Section of this syllabus. A score (of the settings to be played) must be submitted to the examiner.