Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: reverb, ambience, delay, slap back echo, chorus, EQ, filter sweep, overdubbing, ADT, varispeed, reverse. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.
Featuring four extracts of songs by AC/DC, Bowie, Boston and Survivor. Questions focus on the identification of musical features and devices characteristic of the period and genre, as well as providing opportunities to practise score reading, pitch and rhythm recognition and rhythmic dictation.
Suitable for students with a solid foundation of music vocabulary, and a decent amount of analytical listening experience.
Featuring songs by Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, Queen and Bowie. Questions focus on the identification of elements, devices, characteristics and musical language associated with a range of styles and genres.
Featuring four extracts of music by Queen, Bowie, 10cc and Sparks. Questions focus on the identification of elements and devices, with two questions featuring melodic and rhythmic dictation and identification exercises.
Featuring vocal works by Gershwin, Borodin, Rusby and Brahms. Questions focus on texture and sonority but cover all musical elements, and include opportunities to practise score reading and the identification of pitch and rhythm.
Featuring four extracts of music by Strozzi, Lully and Purcell. Questions focus on the identification of elements and devices, with three questions featuring melodic and rhythmic dictation and identification exercises.
Featuring extracts from works by Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, Brahms and Fauré. Questions focus on the elements, context and musical language associated with the genre and the Romantic period.
Featuring Chopin 'Marzurka in Am op.59', and 'Nocturne no.8 in Db op.27', Robert Schumann 'Kinderszenen op.15' and 'Fantasiestücke op.12'. Questions focus on the identification of the elements, context and musical language associated with the music of both composers and the Romantic period.
Featuring four extracts of Romantic period works by Schubert, Dvořák, Bruch and Tchaikovsky. Questions cover all musical elements including the identification of musical forms and devices characteristic of the period, as well as providing opportunities to practise melodic dictation and score reading.
