Eduqas A-Level Music: Rock and Pop overview quiz quiz

A four-on-the-floor disco kick with lush synthesiser pads on every beat

Sampling, programmed drum-machine beats and heavily auto-tuned vocals

A 12-bar blues base, a strong backbeat and a small band

A full symphony orchestra with no electric guitars or backbeat at all

Classical sonata form with an exposition, development and recapitulation

A strict fugue, each entry imitating the subject at a new pitch in turn

Theme and variations, restating one tune in steadily more elaborate forms

Verse and chorus (often with a pre-chorus and a bridge or middle eight)

A fixed 12-bar harmonic pattern built on chords I, IV and V

A standard band line-up of exactly twelve players plus a singer

Any song whose total running time lasts precisely twelve minutes

A type of analogue synthesiser built with twelve oscillators

A dense seven-note chord stacking up thirds, played softly on a clean guitar

A chord of just the root and fifth (no third), strong on distorted guitar

A chord that can only ever be played on the piano, never on the guitar

A chord whose function is to modulate the song into a brand new key

A long vocal melody sung through just once and then never heard again in the song

The single final chord that brings a song to its close after the last chorus fades

A short, repeated (usually instrumental) pattern that drives and identifies a song

A type of close-up studio microphone used mainly for recording the lead vocal line

The walking bassline under the groove

The instrumental intro before the vocal

The fade-out ending of the recording

The snare drum on beats 2 and 4

The pentatonic and blues scales (with blue notes), though pop choruses can be plainly diatonic

Only the whole-tone scale, giving every rock and pop melody a dreamy, deliberately unsettled feel

Only the full chromatic scale, so melodies move purely in semitones with no key centre at all

No scales are used in rock and pop at all, since the melodies are simply spoken rather than sung

The lead singer working alone, carrying the entire melody with no instruments

Drums, bass, and rhythm guitar or keyboard, providing the groove and harmony

An orchestral string section, whose only job is to play the song's solos

A single synthesiser on its own, playing nothing but the song's main hook

It forced every song to become much shorter, since only a couple of minutes could ever be captured on tape

It removed the drums from records entirely, because percussion could not be captured on a separate track at the time

It let parts be recorded separately and layered, allowing dense productions impossible to play live in one take

It had no real effect on how records were made, as every part still had to be played together in one take

Harpsichord and lute, played in a strictly Baroque chamber style

Only acoustic guitars, with no electronic or programmed elements

A church pipe organ providing all of the chords and the bassline

Synthesisers, drum machines, sampling and digital production

Structure, harmony, melody, rhythm, then instrumentation and production

Only describe the lyrics, ignoring every musical feature of the extract

A random order, jumping between features with no consistent method at all

Only the production, with no comment on structure, harmony, melody or rhythm

Guess a date off the top of your head and give no musical reasons at all to back the choice up

Use the style markers (harmony, beat, instrumentation, production, structure) and give reasons from the music

Decide the style and period purely from the song's printed title alone, without listening to any of the actual music

Work out the period only from how many seconds or minutes the recorded extract happens to last for