Wider Listening - AS

Question 1

Claude Debussy:
1. Colouristic Harmony
2. Hand Crossing
3. Homorhythm
4. Gamelan
5. Demisemiquaver
6. Free use of dissonance
7. Programmatic
8. East and West Fusion
9. Spread Chords/Pentatonic
10. Whole Tone
11. Habanera
12. Parallelism

Answer 1

1. “Tristan und Isolde” - Wagner
2. “Pathetique” - Beethoven
3. “Habanera” from Carmen - Bizet
4. “Philemon and Baukis” - Lou Harrison
5. Liszt/Chopin
6. “Prelude a l’apres” - Debussy
7. “La Mer” - Debussy
8. “Japanese Suite” - Holst
9. “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair” - Debussy
10. “Voiles” - Debussy
11. “Piece en forme d’Habenera” - Ravel
12. “La cathedrale engloutine” - Debussy

Question 2

Courtney Pine:
1. Chord Extension
2. 12-Bar Blues
3. Sax Solo (x2)
4. Reverse Cymbol
5. East Coast Rap
6. Gospel Choir
7. Blues Notes

Answer 2

1. “A Night in Tunisia” - Gillespie
2. “Johnny B Goode” - Berry
3. “In a Sentimental Mood” - Coltrane / “Blues for Alice” - Parker
4. “Levels” - Avicii
5. “For the Future” - Marco Polo
6. “Memory Lane” - Nas
7. “I’m a Man” - Little Walter

Question 3

Danny Elfman:
1. Choir
2. Tertiary Modulation
3. Sleigh Bells/Whole Tone
4. Ostinati
5. Motif at various points in Texture
6. Non-Western Instrumentation
7. Canonic Entries
8. Layering of instruments
9. Motif
10. Triplets
11. Mickey Mousing

Answer 3

1. “Ice Dance”, Edward Scissorhands - Elfman
2. “Keep Yourself Alive” - Queen
3. “What’s This?”, Nightmare Before Christmas - Elfman
4. “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” - Adams
5. “Carol Anne’s Theme”, Poltergeist - Goldsmith
6. “Planet of the Apes” - Goldsmith
7. “St. Paul’s Suite” - Holst
8. “Jurassic Park” - Williams
9. “Tristan und Isolde” - Wagner
10. “Star Wars” - Williams
11. “Spiderman” - Elfman

Question 4

JS Bach:
1. Doubling
2. Fugue
3. Tonal Answer/Minor Modulation
4. Layered vocal entries
5. Canonic Entries
6. Stretto Entries
7. Heterophony
8. Passing Modulations
9. Molto Perpetuo
10. Cantata

Answer 4

1. “Messiah: And the Glory of the Lord” - Handel
2. “The Art of Fugue” - Bach
3. “Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden” - Bach
4. “Crucifixus” - Lotti
5. “Mass in B Minor” - Bach
6. “Brandenburg Concerto No.5 III” - Bach
7. “Piano Concerto in C Minor” - Mozart
8. “My Spirit Sang All Day” - Finzi
9. “Gloria” - Vivaldi
10. “Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir” - Bach

Question 5

Clara Schumann:
1. Early Romantic (x2)
2. French Augmented 6th
3. Sonata Form
4. Dominant Pedal
5. Fragmentation of Subject
6. Passing Modulation
7. Tertiary Modulation
8. Chamber Music (x2)
9. Imitation and Chromaticism (x2)

Answer 5

1. “Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai” - R. Schumann / “Piano Concerto in A Minor” - C. Schumann
2. “Binks’ Waltz” - Joplin
3. “Sonata Pathetique” - Beethoven
4. “String Quartet No. 2” - Haydn
5. “Symphonie Fantastique” - Berlioz
6. “Piano Sonata in B Minor” - Liszt
7. “Ballade No. 2 in F Major” - Chopin
8. “String Quartet in F Major” - Ravel (+ unconventional harmony, whole tone) / “Piano Quintet in Eb” - R. Schumann
9. “String Quartet in A Minor” - Mendelssohn / “Piano Trio in D Minor” - R. Schumann

Question 6

Kaija Saariaho:
1. Dynamics from nothing
2. Absence of pulse
3. High Sound (S: Artificial Harmonics)
4. Classical Instruments + Computer
5. Rhythmic Juxtaposition
6. Bow Pressure (x2)
7. SP -> ST + Accelerate

Answer 6

1. “Cello Concerto” - Ligeti
2. “Gesang der Jünglinge” - Stockhausen
3. “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” - Penderecki
4. “Different Trains” - Reich
5. “Sequenzas for Voice” - Berio
6. “Advaya” - Harvey / “Three Pieces for Cello” - Webern
7. “Curve with Plateau” - Harvey

Question 7

Kate Bush:
1. Mixolydian
2. Stepwise Chordal Motion
3. Constant Crotchet Pulse (2x)
4. Violin Riff
5. Balalaika
6. Literature (2x)
7. Vocables
8. Concept Album
9. Spoken Voice Sample
10. Lombardic Rhythm
11. Bouzouki
12. Synth Strings
13. Portamento
14. Melisma

Answer 7

1. “Norwegian Wood” - The Beatles
2. “Here, There and Everywhere” - The Beatles
3. “Elanor Rigby” - The Beatles / “I’m Still Standing” - Elton John
4. “Baba O’Riley” - The Who
5. “Babooshka” - Kate Bush
6. “I am the Walrus” - The Beatles / “Wuthering Heights” - Kate Bush
7. “Killer Queen” - Queen
8. “The Wall” - Pink Floyd
9. “Kaleidoscope” - Coldplay
10. “Let it Be” - The Beatles
11. “Put You in a Song” - Keith Urban
12. “The Model” - Kraftwerk
13. “Way Down Hadestown” - Mitchell
14. “Grace” - Jeff Buckley