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STOTTS GCSE REVISION

MEGA PUB QUIZ

ROUND 1 – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE /20

1. What is a sequence?
2. What is an ostinato?
3. How many players are in a quintet?
4. What is the chord sequences for Jazz/Blues music?
5. What does the term sonority refer to?
6. What structure is ternary form?
7. What structure in binary form?
8. How is a trio different to a minuet?
9. What is a perfect cadence? (name chords)
10. What is repetition?
11. What is an anacrusis?
12. How is imitation different to repetition?
13. What is syncopation?
14. What is a drone?
15. What is a pedal?
16. What is an Alberti Bass?
17. What is a broken chord?
18. What is a conjunct melody?
19. What is a disjunct melody?
20. What is an arpeggio?



ROUND 2 – TRUE OR FALSE /12

1. In binary form, both sections are usually in the same key.
2. In ternary form the 3rd section is based on the first?
3. Rondo form consists of 5 different and contrasting sections.
4. A pentatonic scale has 6 notes.
5. A melody must always have ornaments
6. Tonality means what key the piece of music is in.
7. Pizzicato means to use the bow near the bridge of the violin
8. Feedback is caused by the output of the speaker being picked up again by the microphones and re-
amplified creating a ‘loop’ effect.
9. A wah-wah pedal is used with drums.
10. Staccato means long and smooth
11. Echo is a direct repetition of a sound, usually multiple times getting quieter.
12. Reverb is the lengthening of the end of a sound so it doesn’t die away too quickly








ROUND 3 – SONORITY+ ARTICULATION /20

1. What is the name of the smallest woodwind instrument?
2. What is used to change the tone of a brass instrument
3. How many families of instruments are there in an orchestra? Name them.
4. What is the difference between a wind band and an orchestra?
5. What is the difference between tuned and untuned percussion?
6. What is the highest female singing voice?
7. What do the letters SATB stand for?
8. What is the term used to describe vocal music without instrumental accompaniment?
9. What is the technique used by male singers to sing higher than their normal vocal range?
10. What is it called when a singer uses different notes to sing one syllable of the text?
11. What is the name given to an electronic keyboard that is capable to creating lots of different
timbres and voices?
12. What is meant by reverb?
13. What is a sampler and what does it do?
14. What is a tremolo effect?
15. What is the name given to balancing the sound between the left and right speakers?
16. What is the name given to a non-electric guitar?
17. What is meant by the term glissando?
18. What is a rim shot?
19. What does the term scat mean?
20. What is a vibrato?





























ROUND 4 – CROSSWORD /19 Name:

ROUND 3 - CROSSWORD
Complete the crossword below, all questions refer to your set work 'Since You've Been Gone'
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2. Key o f the piece 1. Melo dy mo ves by (mainly) step.
9 . Name o f the band 3. Change the key
10 . Style o f the music 4 . Lead vo calist vo ice range.
12. Structure o f the who le piece. 5 . Type o f cho rd where the 3rd is missing
15 . The o nly po wer cho rd used in the piece 6 . A sho rt sectio n befo re the main cho rus
16 . Cadence heard at the end o f the pre-cho rus 7 . New, mo dulated, key signature
18. Off beat no tes and rhythms 8. Texture o f the piece
19 . A sho rt repeated phrase in po pular music and jazz, 11. Co mpo ser
typically used as an intro ductio n o r cho rus in a so ng. 13. One no te per syllable
14 . The main cho rd sequence
15 . Harmo ny
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ROUND 5 – FILM ROUND /8

(a) Identify the instruments: Choose from: Tick
(i) Solo Instrument Brass
Woodwind
Strings
(ii) Accompanying instrument(s) Electric bass guitar
Harp
Electric guitar
(b) Explain two ways in which the composer achieves the mood and atmosphere of:
suspense
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(a) Identify the instruments: Choose from: Tick
(i) Solo Instrument French horn
Trumpet
Saxophone
(ii) Accompanying instrument(s) Timpani
String
harp
(b) Explain two ways in which the composer achieves the mood and atmosphere of:
action
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ROUND 6 – PICTURE ROUND /14

1. What ornament is used here?

2. What is the key signature of this extract?

3. What is the time signature of this extract?

4. What musical device is used right at the beginning?

5. Describe what the tempo is of this extract?

6. What are the dynamics of this extract?


7. What sign is this and what does it tell the performer to do?

8. What is the key?


9. What musical device is used here?



10. What playing technique does the player use here?


11. What playing technique does the player use here?


12. This is Violin 1+2, how are they playing?

13. What musical ornament is used?

14. What does the lines over the last 4 notes mean?

















ROUND 7 – ESSAY QUESTIONS

Below is the lyrics to a song from the musical ‘Godspell’.

1. You are the light of the world!
2. You are the light of the world!
3. But if that light is under a bushel
4. Brrr, it's lost something kind of crucial
5. You got to stay bright to be the light of the world
6. You are the salt of the earth,
7. you are the salt of the earth
8. But if that salt has lost it's flavor,
9. it ain't got much in its favor
10. You can't have that fault and be the salt of the earth!
11. So let your light so shine before men
12. Let your light so shine
13. So that they might know some kindness again
14. We all need help to feel fine
(Let's have some wine!)


Describe the use of musical elements in the extract. You may refer to:

Structure Where can you hear different sections (verses/choruses/bridge/intro etc)? Name
the lines which are in each section
Rhythm What is the time signature? Can you hear any of the following in the music?
Syncopation, dotted rhythms, tied notes, accented chords
Dynamics What are the dynamics you can hear? Any crescendos or diminuendos?
Melody Conjunct/disjunct, riffs, repetition, imitation, sequence, what vocal range is singing
it?
Harmony Diatonic/chromatic/dissonant, what tonality is it?
Texture Mono/homo/polyphonic, are all lines the same texture, are there solos and full
chorus lines? Any unaccompanied sections? Change of voices?
Style What style do you think it is in? does it have any other style influences you can
hear from other genres?
Mood Don’t just put ‘it is happy’