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The additional topic is basically one from your own choosing, but it can't be the same as what you did in year 11. I did music 1945-music25 years ago as my additional, mostly because thats where all the best pieces for cornet were composed. The other guy in my class (yes we only have two) did a...

There is a horn in Eb but it has a distinctly different timbre to a french horn. I had Ab root and Db root from memory, and there were arpeggios in the viola or something.

The exam was pretty tricky. I have never heard about horns not having key signatures. I played plenty of horn and always had a key sig, so it made sense for it to be in F. I (being a cornet player) shat myself when I saw the melodic dictation, but I am pretty confident that I will get...