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WorksheetsListening Comprehension in Music
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
LISTENING QUESTION #1: Which effect is heard in the cleanly-executed introduction?
New Orleans
Detroit
Cleveland
New York
Chicago
LISTENING QUESTION #2: Which of the following BEST outlines the rhythmic ostinato featured prominently in this piece?
long-short-long-short
short-long-short-long
short-short-short-long
long-long-long-short
long-long-short-short
LISTENING QUESTION #3: Who composed this piece?
Vincent Youmans
Joe Oliver
Lillian Armstrong
James P. Johnson
Jerome Kern
LISTENING QUESTION #4: What instruments accompany this piece?
piano and flute
piano and clarinet
clarinet and cornet
piano and cornet
guitar and cornet
LISTENING QUESTION #5: Who made the 1922 commercial recording of this piece?
Gus Kahn
Ernie Erdman
Dan Russo
Al Jolson
Louis Armstrong
LISTENING QUESTION #6: What is the form of this piece?
12-bar form
24-bar form
32-bar form
through composed
A B A B
LISTENING QUESTION #7: In what year was this piece composed?
1932
1928
1920
1925
1916
LISTENING QUESTION #8: This piece features show-tune form, which is BEST represented as ____.
A B A’ C
A A A A
A B A B
A B C A
A A B B
LISTENING QUESTION #9: Which theme opens this Scherzo section?
“Stride”
“Ritornello”
“Tag”
“Shuffle”
“Train”
LISTENING QUESTION #10: This excerpt features an increasingly common interlude technique between choruses called a(n) ________.
chorus
vamp
verse
scat
improvisation
LISTENING QUESTION #11: How many themes are in this opening section?
1
2
3
4
6
LISTENING QUESTION #12: This piece is said to foreshadow the _____________ style, which would come a decade later.
free
bebop
fusion
swing
cool
