Eduqas GCSE Music Popular Music (Area of Study 4) overview quiz quiz

Only Baroque dances

Rock, pop and related styles, their instruments, technology and song structures

Only chamber music

Film scoring only

Badinerie by J.S. Bach

Africa by Toto (1982)

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Thriller by Michael Jackson

Strings, woodwind, brass and percussion

Lead and backing vocals, electric and bass guitar, keyboards or synths, and drum kit

Solo piano

A string quartet

A held bass note

A strong accent on beats 2 and 4 (usually the snare)

A change of key

An instrumental introduction

A catchy vocal chorus phrase

A short, repeated melodic, rhythmic or chordal idea (often instrumental)

The ending of a song

A type of microphone

Playing several songs at once

Recording parts separately and layering them

A type of guitar effect

A song with many verses

Reverb

Distortion

Delay

Panning

There is no difference

A verse has the same music with changing words; a chorus repeats the same words and music (the hook)

A chorus is always instrumental

A verse is louder than a chorus

To open the song

To provide contrast part-way through, before a final chorus

To end the song with a fade

To repeat the first verse

Sonata form

The twelve-bar blues (a repeating I, IV, V chord pattern)

Theme and variations

Minuet and trio

A 1960s rock and roll song

A 1982 soft-rock and pop song

A 1970s disco track

A 1990s hip-hop song

A solo harpsichord and terraced dynamics

A memorable keyboard riff, close multi-tracked backing vocal harmonies and layered percussion

An improvised twelve-bar saxophone solo only

A single unaccompanied voice

Only in the composing component

In the Component 3 appraising paper, with two questions including one on the set work

It is not examined

Only in the performing component