Edexcel GCSE Music Area of Study 4: Fusions quiz quiz

Music that is played at a very fast tempo from beginning to end

Music with no instruments at all, made using only the human voice

Music that combines two or more cultures or styles into a new blended style

Music that comes from a single country and uses only its traditional instruments

American jazz, Delta blues and electric guitar rock

Indian classical raga, American gospel and Jamaican reggae

Baroque counterpoint, Classical sonata form and Romantic opera

Celtic folk, West African music and Western dance technology

Uilleann pipes

The Indian sitar

American bluegrass banjo

Piano accordion

A single unaccompanied melody that continues unchanged throughout

A slow homophonic hymn texture with all parts moving together in chords

Layered and cumulative, adding and removing ostinati over a drone

A solo piano texture with a tune in the right hand and chords beneath

Acoustic instruments only, recorded live with no studio effects

A pipe organ providing sustained chords beneath the melody

A traditional string quartet of two violins, viola and cello

Programmed drum beats, loops, synthesisers and samples

Brazilian bossa nova and jazz

Jamaican reggae and electric guitar rock

Spanish flamenco and American Delta blues

European classical music and modern chart pop

The grand piano

A full drum kit

Double bass

The trumpet

Simple three-chord harmony using only tonic, subdominant and dominant

No harmony at all, just a single unaccompanied melodic line

Plain Baroque triads with a figured bass and no chromatic notes

Rich jazz harmony with extended and chromatic chords

Portuguese

Spanish, as spoken in Argentina

Italian, the language of opera

French

Strict sonata form with exposition, development and recapitulation

Terraced dynamics only, suddenly stepping between loud and soft

Drones, ostinati and call and response

A basso continuo of harpsichord and cello underpinning the music

They are written in exactly the same style and use the same instruments throughout

Both are scored for a full symphony orchestra with strings, brass and woodwind

Both works are sung entirely in Portuguese by a solo singer with a guitar

Release is electronic and dance-driven; Samba Em Preludio is intimate and acoustic

Brazilian samba and jazz

Electric guitar rock and acoustic folk

Jamaican reggae and its faster relative ska

American Delta blues and country and western