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Listening Comprehension in Music

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

LISTENING QUESTION #1: Which effect is heard in the cleanly-executed introduction?

a)

New Orleans

b)

Detroit

c)

Cleveland

d)

New York

e)

Chicago

2.

LISTENING QUESTION #2: Which of the following BEST outlines the rhythmic ostinato featured prominently in this piece?

a)

long-short-long-short

b)

short-long-short-long

c)

short-short-short-long

d)

long-long-long-short

e)

long-long-short-short

3.

LISTENING QUESTION #3: Who composed this piece?

a)

Vincent Youmans

b)

Joe Oliver

c)

Lillian Armstrong

d)

James P. Johnson

e)

Jerome Kern

4.

LISTENING QUESTION #4: What instruments accompany this piece?

a)

piano and flute

b)

piano and clarinet

c)

clarinet and cornet

d)

piano and cornet

e)

guitar and cornet

5.

LISTENING QUESTION #5: Who made the 1922 commercial recording of this piece?

a)

Gus Kahn

b)

Ernie Erdman

c)

Dan Russo

d)

Al Jolson

e)

Louis Armstrong

6.

LISTENING QUESTION #6: What is the form of this piece?

a)

12-bar form

b)

24-bar form

c)

32-bar form

d)

through composed

e)

A B A B

7.

LISTENING QUESTION #7: In what year was this piece composed?

a)

1932

b)

1928

c)

1920

d)

1925

e)

1916

8.

LISTENING QUESTION #8: This piece features show-tune form, which is BEST represented as ____.

a)

A B A’ C

b)

A A A A

c)

A B A B

d)

A B C A

e)

A A B B

9.

LISTENING QUESTION #9: Which theme opens this Scherzo section?

a)

“Stride”

b)

“Ritornello”

c)

“Tag”

d)

“Shuffle”

e)

“Train”

10.

LISTENING QUESTION #10: This excerpt features an increasingly common interlude technique between choruses called a(n) ________.

a)

chorus

b)

vamp

c)

verse

d)

scat

e)

improvisation

11.

LISTENING QUESTION #11: How many themes are in this opening section?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

e)

6

12.

LISTENING QUESTION #12: This piece is said to foreshadow the _____________ style, which would come a decade later.

a)

free

b)

bebop

c)

fusion

d)

swing

e)

cool