Political Economy.

Women (Pass).

1. Do you consider the following as Capital: (a) an academical degree, (b) a commercial treaty, (c) the furniture in your house? In each case give reasons for your opinion.

2. What are the chief causes affecting rate of interest? What connection is there between rate of interest and rate of profits?

3. Distinguish between Productive and Unproductive labour, giving examples. Under which head would you class the labour of a policeman?

4. Examine the effect of a permanent fall in the rate of interest on (1) price of port wine, (2) price of land, (3) consols ?

5. What causes determine the normal rate of interest? Why may we expect the rate to be increasingly low in England?

6. Would you regard the profits of a sleeping partner in a commercial house as entirely interest on capital?

7. In a commercial society would capital be unnecessary? State and criticise the views of German Communists regarding the "tyranny of capital."

8. Show why profits, though fluctuating, tend to equality; illustrating your answer by reference to the high profits of successful barristers and doctors.

9. Is a high rate of interest always advantageous to a country or not? State some of the economic effects which result.

10. Give and criticise Adam Smith's definition of Fixed Capital, comparing it with Mill's. Would you regard money as Fixed or Circulating Capital?

Music.

Junior.

1. Of what intervals does a 66 common chord" consist? How does a major C.C. differ from a minor one? Why cannot a C.C. be formed on the leading-note of a scale?

2. What is meant by the "inversion" of a chord? How many inversions has a C.C.; what are they called; and how are they figured?

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3. In writing in four parts, which notes of a C.C. and its inversions may, and which may not, be doubled?

4. What is meant by "consecutive fifths and octaves," and when does a "false relation" occur?

5. When a bass-note is not figured, what chord should be written? What does an accidental under a bass-note imply?

6. If another third be added to the dominant C.C. what chord is formed, and why is it so named? Which of its notes require resolution, and how should they resolve?

7. Explain thoroughly the inversions of the dominant seventh, and state the rules relating to the doubling and omission of notes. 8. What chord most naturally follows that of the dominant seventh? Name any other possible resolutions that you know of. 9. Harmonise in four parts the figured bass given in last month's Senior paper. Write the ground-notes on a separate stave below the bass. Afterwards write the exercise in vocal

score.

10. What is the best way of writing a succession of chords of the sixth ?

11. Harmonise the following in four parts.

Music.

Senior.

1. Questions 10 and 11 of Junior paper.

2. Why should not the leading-note be given to two parts of the same chord ?

3. Which interval of a chord gives it its name? Give examples.

4. How does the chord of the dominant ninth differ in major and minor keys? Which note is almost invariably omitted in the inversions of the ninth ?

5. Explain the chords known as the "diminished seventh" and "leading seventh," and say why the former is so frequently used as a means of modulation.

6. Give as many notations as you can of the following chord without changing the sound and relative position of the notes. Name the ground-note in each case and say to what key each chord belongs.

7. Write the chord of the Dom. 9th and its inversions (in four parts) in the keys of E major and B minor, and add to each a suitable resolution.

8. Write a short well-known hymn-tune in vocal score, and give either the name of the tune or of the hymn to which it is sung.

9. Add alto, tenor, and bass parts to the following melody :—

10. Give six Italian terms which are used to indicate the pace of music; six which regulate the intensity of the sounds ; and six which denote the style of expression. Give the meaning of each.

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