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MONDAY, Dec. 20, 1858. 2 to 4 P.M.

III. 3. Music.

1. Write out the Diatonic Scale, marking the Tones and Semitones.

2. Put a Minor 3rd and Perfect 5th to each note of the Diatonic Scale.

3. Explain the introduction of Accidentals in the following Scale: |

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4. Write out the Scale of G Minor.

5. Name each Interval in the following examples, and distinguish the Diatonic Intervals from the Chromatic Intervals :

6. How many Semitones are contained in the Interval

and how should it be named, and to what class of Intervals does it belong?

7. What is meant by the Inversion of an Interval? Give two or three examples.

8. Write a Common Chord (or Triad) on the Dominant in the keys indicated.

9. Put the Time-signature to the following examples:

MENDELSSOHN.

MENDELSSOHN.

10. Transpose the following example into the key of G.

MOZART.

&c.

11. Write, from memory, a few bars of any well known melody.

12. Name some of the past great masters in music, and say to what branch of composition they especially devoted themselves.

SENIOR CANDIDATES.

PART I. PRELIMINARY.

Dec. 1858.

I. 1. Reading aloud.

A PASSAGE from some standard English poet selected by the Examiner.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 1858. 2 to 24 P.M.

I. 2. Writing from Dictation.

THE morning of the twelfth of December rose on a ghastly sight. The capital in many places presented the aspect of a city taken by storm. The Lords met at Whitehall and exerted themselves to restore tranquillity. The trainbands were ordered under arms. A body of cavalry was kept in readiness to disperse tumultuous assemblages. Such atonement as was at that moment possible was made for the gross insults which had been offered to foreign governments. A reward was promised for the discovery of the property taken from the house of the Spanish Embassy. The Ambassador himself, who had not a bed or an ounce of plate left, was splendidly lodged in the deserted palace of the Kings of England. A sumptuous table was kept for him; and the yeomen of the guard were ordered to wait in his antechamber with the same observance which they were in the habit of paying to the Sovereign. These marks of respect soothed even the punctilious pride of the Spanish court and averted all danger of a rupture.

MACAULAY.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 1858. 24 to 31 P.M.

I. 3. Analysis and Parsing.

[N.B. All Candidates are required to satisfy the Examiners in this Paper.]

ANALYSE the following passage, and parse fully the words printed in Italics :

The current, that with gentle murmur glides,

Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage:
But when his fair course is not hindered,

He makes sweet music with the enamelled stones,

Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.

SHAKESPEARE.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 1858. 10 to 12.
I. 4. English Composition.

[N.B. All Candidates must satisfy the Examiners in this Paper.] WRITE on any one of the following subjects:

1. A sketch of the character of the Duke of Wellington. 2. A criticism of any well-known book or passage in prose

or verse.

3. A letter of application, on behalf of a friend, for any one of the following posts, stating his qualifications:

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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 1858. 9 to 104 A.M.

I. 5. Preliminary Arithmetic.

[N. B. All Candidates are required to satisfy the Examiners in this Paper.]

1. WHY is the addition of a cypher to the right of a whole number equivalent to the multiplication of that number by ten? 2. Express the number MMMDCCCLXXIV in words, and in the decimal notation.

3. Divide 5332114 by 1234, and also by 4321.

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5. Of twenty-one people, thirteen lose £116. 7s. 8d. each, and eight lose £93. Os. 9d. each. What is the average loss. per man?

6. Find the cost of 17 acres, 2 roods, and 25 poles of land at £76. 10s. per acre.

7. What do you understand by the symbol ?

Shew that of of £1 is equal to 111d.

8. Explain how fractions can be compared by reducing them to a common denominator.

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Which is greater, of £1, or of a florin?

9. Give the rule for the division of decimals. Divide 815.584 by 00011, also 0.815584 by 110.

10. Shew that 718283 is more nearly equal to 7183 than

to '7182.

11. Supposing each penny in the pound of the Income-tax to yield a million sterling to the revenue, find the assessable income of the country.

12. What is the interest on £250 for 2 years at 3 per cent. simple interest?

13. Assuming that a gallon contains 277 cubic inches, and that a cubic foot of water weighs 1000 oz.; shew that the popular rule,

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