Area of Study 4, Popular Music overview quiz - WJEC GCSE Music quiz

Plainchant and madrigals

Pop, rock, soul, hip-hop and fusion

Baroque concertos only

Welsh folk only

A single repeated chord

Four eight-bar sections only

A twelve-bar pattern

Verses with new words alternating with a repeated, memorable chorus

Only chord I

Chords ii, iii and vi

The primary chords I, IV and V

All twelve major chords

Four eight-bar sections, with the A sections sharing a tune and a contrasting middle eight

Two sections repeated

A continuous improvisation

Twelve repeating bars

A memorable vocal line

A change of key

A short, catchy, repeated, usually instrumental pattern that drives the song

A drum solo only

A memorable, often vocal idea designed to stick in the memory

A held bass note

A type of cadence

A drum fill

Trying out an instrument

Singing in falsetto

Playing a scale

Taking a section of an existing recording and reusing it

Playing a piece backwards

A guitar effect

Repeating a short passage to build a backing

A vocal technique

Pizzicato

Falsetto

Tremolo on a violin

Mickey-mousing

Anitra's Dance by Grieg

Everything Must Go by the Manic Street Preachers

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Rolling in the Deep by Adele

A rock band enriched by orchestral strings

A string quartet only

Solo piano

A brass band

Minor, making it sad

Major, helping it sound bright and anthemic

Atonal, making it tense

Modal, making it folk-like

By removing all instruments

By thickening the texture with layers and raising the dynamics

By slowing to a stop

By switching to a minor key

They are the same thing

A riff is always vocal

A hook is a drum pattern

A riff is a repeated, usually instrumental pattern; a hook is a memorable, often vocal catch

Identify the genre and form, then name features and link them to the musical elements

Explain what the lyrics mean

Name the record label

Describe the album cover