Defying Gravity Orchestration Listening Quiz

What can you hear?

• Strings use tremolo effect to add tension

• Brass section plays homophonic chordal music

• Cymbal roll adds excitement as the piece moves into a key change

• Cor Anglais plays emotional ‘unlimited’ theme

What can you hear?

• Strings use tremolo effect to add excitement

• Brass section plays homophonic chordal music

• Cymbal roll adds excitement as the piece moves into a key change

• Cor Anglais plays emotional ‘unlimited’ theme

What can you hear?

• Strings use tremolo effect to add tension

• Synthesisers and glockenspiel are used to good effect with the high magical-sounding repeated quaver accompaniment

• Timpani Roll to build up to a climax

• Cymbal roll adds excitement as the piece moves into a key change

What can you hear?

• Closed hi-hat of the drum kit plays constant crotchet rhythms to add rhythmic momentum

• Timpani Roll to build up to a climax

• Cor Anglais plays emotional ‘unlimited’ theme

• Synthesisers and glockenspiel are used to good effect with the high magical-sounding repeated quaver accompaniment

What can you hear?

• Brass section plays homophonic chordal music

• Cymbal roll adds excitement as the piece moves into a key change

• Synthesisers and glockenspiel are used to good effect with the high magical-sounding repeated quaver accompaniment

• Closed hi-hat of the drum kit plays constant crotchet rhythms to add rhythmic momentum

What can you hear?

• Strings use tremolo effect to add tension

• Synthesisers and glockenspiel are used to good effect with the high magical-sounding repeated quaver accompaniment

• Closed hi-hat of the drum kit plays constant crotchet rhythms to add rhythmic momentum

• Timpani Roll to build up to a climax

What can you hear?

• Cor Anglais plays emotional ‘unlimited’ theme

• Cymbal roll adds excitement as the piece moves into a key change

• Timpani Roll to build up to a climax

• Brass section plays homophonic chordal music