Date for Entry: (Wednesday 6th May 2015)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 2nd July, 2021)
Dear Diary,
Today was my Musical Exam for CXC’s CSEC Paper 2 in
Performance and Composition. I had to do a composition and an arrangement for
this Examination as well as to prepare a file of musical scores in work that “I
had done for the two years of experience.” I had never had that experience,
however; I had the experience via “Graded Performances in Solo Steelpan” from
the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) thank God.
I only did the scoring and writing of the arrangement and
composition from Saturday until Tuesday night. Plus, we had to record them all
on a device and then burn them onto a CD. That was hell! I had problems with
recording because I needed the music room which we never had in school to do
it. There was a dog in the neighbour’s yard in Tunapuna that was barking and
children making noise. I was glad the children voices didn’t come out in the audiotape but the dog kept on barking. It was a good thing that it was not enough to
have to do over the recording.
I made photocopies of the examination booklet I made all
with CD recordings of the songs. They were presents for some of the
teachers. Ms. Sirjosingh got hers and she told me that I was a real sweetheart.
It took me some time to get everyone's names on the booklets in a fancy font
and handwritten in a purple fine point gel ink pen.
For the examination, I chose to play my Arrangement and for
the Solo, I played “Jesu Joys of Man’s Desiring”. The Viva Voce questions were quite easy and I gave the answer to the questions in full detail. The
Moderator was pleased with my answering and then she made me tell her what the
bars in the music were describing. That part was easy for me because I had made
a storyline telling my journey into Hillview, what happened and how the story developed in each
segment of the piece. She said that the "piece was very comprehensive."
At the end of the exam, she let Ms. Saunders back in after
the two of us talk about what I wanted to do when I’m finished with CXC. Then
Ms Saunders and the Moderator who was a past student of Ms. Saunders’ father
had a long chat that involved me. She told Miss that I should have been at a
very high level than Grade 2 in Pan practical. Then the subject changed into
talking about the school in terms of the unfortunate ways they treat Music
Education.
The moderator then walked the both of us to her car, to
show us how the file should have looked like. Apparently, I went and did extra
work that was not needed. She only needed the arrangement and the composition. She
showed us one of the students she had moderated earlier that day, to give her
an idea of what was expected inside of the folder. The only difference is that
mine will be a prettier book which will be bound together so that pop out and
look to go “bye-bye.”
There were these two pictures that Ms. Saunders and I liked with the music. She took a picture for me to insert in the folder and she sent it for me on WhatsApp over might. But the way it was, I found similar ones on Google Images and downloaded them to put in the project. These were downloads looked brighter and perfect for the project.
Daryl Zion M. Ali
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