Name:

Class:
Formative
Assessment Listening Quiz

Listen to the music provided and place a tick if you hear the
following:

1) Beds are Burning Midnight Oil

12 bar blues
Walking Bass
Several Voices
Fills
Solo
Back Beat
Riff

Solo voice
Male voice
Female voice
Electric Instruments
Horn section

2) I Want to Break Free Queen

12 bar blues
Walking Bass
Several Voices
Fills
Solo
Back Beat
Riff

Solo voice
Male voice
Female voice
Electric Instruments
Horn section

3) Gun-gwaral
A. Didgeridoo
B. Several Voices
C. Repeated rhythmic patterns at
a regular pulse
D. Continuous drone on the
didgeridoo
E. Melody beginning high then
descending
F. Change of rhythm pattern on
clapping sticks
G. Chant-like singing,
Mainly on one note

H. Clapping sticks

K. Female voice

L. Repeated vocal melody

M. Longer note by the voice

N. Mainly short notes sung

I.Solo voice
J. Male voice

4) List the instruments (sounds) in this excerpt From Love Rears its Ugly Head by
Living Colour.

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5) Name the instrument that plays the solo in the excerpt from Never Tear Us Apart
by INXS, and how it is played.

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Answer the following question on Stylistic features.
6) What is a Back Beat?

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7) What is a Riff?

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8) What is Unison Riffing?

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9) What is a Drone?

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10) Place a tick beside the
repeated rhythmic pattern.