Edexcel GCSE Music Area of Study 2: Vocal Music quiz quiz

George Frideric Handel

Johann Sebastian Bach

Claudio Monteverdi

Henry Purcell

A rock band

A full orchestra

A basso continuo

A piano alone

A short repeated riff played by the guitar

An Alberti bass made of broken chords

A walking bass that steps up and down

A ground bass (basso ostinato)

Music

While

Eternal

Beguile

C major

D major

G minor

A minor

A Night at the Opera

A Kind of Magic

Sheer Heart Attack

The Game

Classical sonata form

A repeating ground bass

A Baroque ritornello

Verse-chorus

A large live choir sings them all together

A synthesiser plays the harmony parts instead

Multitracking and overdubbing in the studio

They are sampled directly from another song

Reverb

Distortion

Compression

Panning

Syllabic word-setting is always sung much louder than melismatic word-setting

Syllabic word-setting is for instruments only, while melismatic is for voices

Syllabic is one note per syllable; melismatic is many notes per syllable

There is no real difference between the two ways of setting words at all

Both pieces are accompanied by a full rock band

Both pieces are written in the key of A minor

Both pieces use a repeating ground bass throughout

Both set words for a solo voice with accompaniment

A single live take played in one go

On a synthesiser rather than a guitar

From harmonised, multitracked guitar overdubs

By sampling and looping a solo taken from another record