Styles and Genres 1 (3)

Question 1

Swing - Instrumentation

Answer 1

• Vocals - in some songs
• Top line instruments - trumpets, cornets, trombones, saxophones, clarinets

Question 2

Swing - Influences

Answer 2

• Big Band
• New Orleans Jazz

Question 3

Swing - Key Innovator

Answer 3

Louis Armstrong

Question 4

Swing - Musical features

Answer 4

• Big Band
• Saxophone

Question 5

Swing - Technological features

Answer 5

• Live recording
• Recording direct to disk

Question 6

Rap - Key Innovators

Answer 6

Drake

Question 7

Rap - Musical Features

Answer 7

• Spoken rhyming lyrics
• Heavy bassline

Question 8

Rap - technological features

Answer 8

• Use of Samplers
• Scratching effects

Question 9

Synth Pop - Instrumentation

Answer 9

• Synthesiser
• Vocals

Question 10

Synth Pop - Influences

Answer 10

• Disco
• New wave

Question 11

Synth Pop - Key Innovators

Answer 11

Duran Duran

Question 12

Synth Pop - Musical Features

Answer 12

• Riffs/Ostinato
• Repetition

Question 13

Synth Pop - Technological features

Answer 13

• Synthesiser
• Sequencer

Question 14

Ragtime - Instrumentation

Answer 14

• Piano

Question 15

Ragtime - Key Innovators

Answer 15

• Jelly Roll Morton

Question 16

Ragtime - Musical Features

Answer 16

• Right hand syncopation
• Question and answer

Question 17

Ragtime - Technological Features

Answer 17

• Played/recorded on the player piano

Question 18

Rock - Instrumentation

Answer 18

• Electric guitar
• Vocals

Question 19

Rock - Key Innovators

Answer 19

The rolling stones

Question 20

Rock - Musical Features

Answer 20

• Drumkit
• Electric Guitar

Question 21

Rock - Technological Features

Answer 21

• Distortion
• Flanger or phaser on bass guitar

Question 22

Rock ‘n’ Roll - Instrumentation

Answer 22

• Electric Guitar
• Double bass/bass guitar

Question 23

Rock ‘n’ Roll - Key Innovators

Answer 23

Elvis Pressley

Question 24

Rock ‘n’ Roll - Influences

Answer 24

• R ‘n’ B
• Blues

Question 25

Rock 'n' Roll - Musical Features

Answer 25

- Call and response - Walking bass

Question 26

Rock 'n' Roll - Technological Features

Answer 26

- Vocals overdubbed to minimize spillage - Live recording direct to tape

Question 27

20th/21st Century Classical Music - Instrumentation

Answer 27

- Voice - Strings

Question 28

20th/21st Century Classical Music - Key Innovator

Answer 28

Benjamin Britten

Question 29

20th/21st Century Classical Music - Influences

Answer 29

Baroque Music - (1600-1750) Classical (1750-1810)

Question 30

20th/21st Century Classical Music - Musical Features

Answer 30

- Orchestra - Orchestral Music

Question 31

20th/21st Century Classical Music - Technological Features

Answer 31

- Overheard condenser microphone in key points of orchestra - Distance/room stereo microphone