Developing Understanding of 20th and 21st Century Music: SQA Higher Music Technology quiz quiz

The synthesiser

The electric guitar and amplification

Digital streaming

The drum machine

Parts to be recorded separately and combined later

Sound to be generated electronically

Music to be streamed online

Chords to be transposed automatically

Sampling replays recorded sound; synthesis generates sound electronically

They are the same thing

Sampling is analogue; synthesis is always acoustic

Sampling changes pitch; synthesis changes tempo

A four-on-the-floor kick and octave bass

The 12-bar I-IV-V chord pattern and blue notes

Rapped vocals and a looped beat

Bagpipes and a drone

Four-on-the-floor kick

Improvisation over a chord sequence with a swung, syncopated feel

Distorted power chords

Off-beat reggae skank

A relaxed off-beat skank

A strong swung four-in-a-bar pulse with a walking bass

A four-on-the-floor kick

A fast breakbeat with sub-bass

On every beat (four-on-the-floor)

On the off-beats (the skank), over a heavy melodic bass

Only on beat one

In rapid arpeggios

A four-on-the-floor kick with an octave-jumping bass

Rapped vocals over samples

Improvised solos over swung changes

Ornamented melodies over a drone

Lush orchestration and slow tempo

Fast, loud, raw and short songs with simple power chords

Swung rhythm and walking bass

Four-on-the-floor with synth builds

Bagpipes and fiddle

Synthesisers and drum machines

Brass and saxophone sections

Acoustic guitar and double bass

Sung with operatic vibrato

Rapped (spoken in rhythm) over a looped beat

Hummed over a drone

Sung in close harmony only

Turntables and samplers

Bagpipes, fiddle and accordion

Distorted electric guitar and synth bass

Brass section and walking bass

It uses only acoustic instruments

It combines traditional Celtic instruments and tunes with a rock band

It is purely electronic dance music

It has no rhythm section

A change of key

Accents placed on weak beats or off-beats against the pulse

A repeated chord pattern

A gradual increase in volume

Monophonic

Homophonic

Polyphonic

Atonal

A foot switch on an amplifier

A sustained or repeated note held under changing chords

A type of cadence

A drum-machine pattern