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Module 3 Listening Quiz Questions and Notes

 

Module 3 Listening Quiz Questions and Notes

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Objectives

  • Students will demonstrate listening skills involving the basics of form in music using the 32-bar AABA form in jazz.
  • Students will demonstrate listening skills involving the basic notions of texture.

 

Instructions

Open up the Module 3 Listening Quiz in a separate window. Read the notes below for each question, which refers you to a listening example on Spotify or elsewhere. Then answer the question as it appears in the Module 3 Listening Quiz. Submit the quiz when you are finished.

Questions on "Body and Soul" by the Benny Goodman Trio, 3:25. (Ken Burns Jazz).

Note that popular music, especially jazz, utilizes what is called a 32-bar AABA form. You do not need to be concerned with the 32-bar aspect of this form. However, you should be able to identify the AABA part of it.

Here we are going to analyze Benny Goodman's rendition of a pop tune written by Johnny Green. Go to Spotify and look up

Note that Body and Soul is written in an AABA format. This means that the verse you just listened to on the Wikipedia page is repeated twice before there is a B section called the bridge or chorus (either term works). Sometimes, an instrument improvises through the B section. Then the main melody or A section repeats again. All this takes places within the first 1:18 of the song. Listen to just the first 1:18 and answer the questions in the quiz that refers to this part of the exercise.

 

Questions on "Nkende Yamuyayu" (Hugh Tracey is named as the artist, but he is not the actual performer--he is an ethnomusicologist who collected the song) from Uganda (Spotify). This song we will use to identify musical texture. Texture is how the different parts of music are put or woven together. In other words, do all the melody instruments in a song play the melody the same way or does one instrumentalist vary it slightly different than the other(s). In this example, we will look at a Ugandan song called "Nkende Yamuyayu." Listen to the recording and note first what are the different parts of the song.

 

Questions on "Sylvie," Folkways: A Vision Shared (Spotify). Answer the questions on the quiz as they pertain to texture in the song, "Sylvie."