Featuring four extracts of songs by Elvis, Connie Francis, The Rolling Stones and Cream. Questions focus on the identification of musical features and devices characteristic of the genre, as well as providing opportunities to practise score reading, pitch and rhythm recognition, and melodic dictation.
Featuring instrumental works by Metheny arr. Mays, Walker, Ravel, Liszt arr. Luke. Questions focus on texture and sonority but cover all musical elements, and include opportunities to practise melodic dictation.
Suitable for the early stages of analytical listening.
Featuring Copland 'Billy the Kid' and 'Rodeo', Reich 'Music for Pieces of Wood' and Adams 'Harmonium'. Questions focus on the elements, context and musical language associated with the music of these composers.
Featuring Arnold 'Four Cornish Dances', Britten 'Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge', Maxwell-Davies 'Strathcyde Concerto no.6' and Tavener 'Funeral Ikos'. Questions focus on the elements, context and musical language associated with the music of these four composers.
Featuring Bartók 'Romanian Folk Dances for Orchestra' and the 'Concerto for Orchestra', and Kodály 'Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song' and 'Dances of Galánta'. Questions focus on the identification of the elements, characteristics of folk music, and features of 20th century orchestral writing found in the works of the two composers.
Featuring music by Emmet Cohen, Joy Brown, Tyreek McDole, Summer Camargo, Memphis Minnie and Dinah Washington. Questions focus on texture and sonority but cover all musical elements, and include opportunities to practise pitch and rhythm identification.
Featuring music by Sippie Wallace, Memphis Minnie, Dinah Washington and Louis Jordan. Questions focus on the identification of elements, devices, characteristics and musical language associated with The Blues.
Featuring music by Soulsha, Laufey, Barbatuques and Courtney Pine. Questions focus on the identification of elements, devices, characteristics and musical language associated with a range of fusions.
Featuring four extracts of music by Soulsha, Laufey, Lady Gaga, and Courtney Pine. Questions focus on the identification of elements, compositional devices and characteristics of styles and genres in this AOS. All four questions feature melodic and rhythmic dictation or identification exercises.
