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AoS Pop Artists

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Superstition the verses contain the chord Eb b7#9

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

structure

2.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Sir Duke the horns and bass play the riff in octaves

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

structure

3.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Sir Duke in the verse there is a descending chromatic sequence

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

rhythm

4.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Master Blaster the bass riff starts with a descending chromatic sequences played in octaves

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

structure

5.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Sir Duke the intro uses B, G#m, G and F# (G is a borrowed chord)

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

structure

6.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Sir Duke the intro horn riff is triadic and uses chromaticism

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

rhythm

7.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Superstition there is a mix of an E♭m pentatonic scale and a E ♭ major chord

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

structure

8.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Superstition the chorus chord progression is B♭7 C ♭7add4 A7♭5 A♭7 and B♭7♭6

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

rhythm

9.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Master Blaster there are accented on beats 2 and 4, creating a reggae feel

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

rhythm

10.

Stevie: which element of music would the following specific come under? Master Blaster is in the key of C minor

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

rhythm

11.

Daft Punk: which element of music would the following specific come under? HBFS ends on last quaver

beat with ‘our work is never over’ on octave F♯s with a D quaver in the accompaniment which is word-painting

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

rhythm

12.

Daft Punk: which element of music would the following specific come under? HBFS makes use of extended chords in the verse F♯m9, E6, D7♯4 and F♯sus4(2nd inversion)

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

13.

Daft Punk: which element of music would the following specific come under? Harmonic rhythm faster with chords changing every bar: B♭minor, 

G♭ minor, E♭minor A♭major

This feels like a vi-IV-ii-V in D♭ however there is a B ♭ pedal in the synth

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

texture

d)

rhythm

14.

Daft Punk: which element of music would the following specific come under? Sound is dominanted by electronic instruments; synthesizers, drum machine, vocoder, bass and lead guitars

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

15.

Daft Punk: which element of music would the following specific come under? In Instant Crush the vocals enter half way through the repetition of the intros chord sequence. It uses almost expressionless tone in a high register (head voice)

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

16.

Beyoncé: which element of music would the following specific come under? Crazy In Love uses a syncopated 1 bar vocal riff in the verses and uses semiquavers to make it feel faster than it actually is

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

17.

Beyoncé: which element of music would the following specific come under? Crazy In Love uses the chords Bb and Gm7 in the chorus

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

18.

Beyoncé: which element of music would the following specific come under? Crazy In Love uses the chords Bb and Gm7 however the Eb needed is missing suggesting the Lydian mode on Bb is the key

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

19.

Beyoncé: which element of music would the following specific come under? The verse in Crazy In Love sees the entrance of the vocals singing on D and A - the tonic and dominant

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

20.

Beyoncé: which element of music would the following specific come under? Single Ladies begins with claps on every quaver giving it an upbeat "1" feel rather than it's 4/4 time signature

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

21.

Beyoncé: which element of music would the following specific come under? Single Ladies has a snare hit on the 8th quaver of the bar - no beat is accented more than another

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

22.

Beyoncé: which element of music would the following specific come under? In the call and response ("all the single ladies") section of Single Ladies the melody starts on the dominant, then riffs on the third, second and tonic.

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

23.

Beyoncé: which element of music would the following specific come under? In the verses of Single Ladies the only "music" alongside the vocals and drums is a pitched noise

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm

24.

Beyoncé: which TWO elements of music would the following specific come under? In Single Ladies a bass synth goes from B to C which is a borrowed chord but the vocal line doesn't reflect this, so we have dissonance when the vocals sing a G# and F#

a)

melody

b)

harmony

c)

instrumentation

d)

rhythm