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Popular music

Contextual Information

• Chuck Berry – ‘Maybelline’ (1955)
• Bessie Smith – ‘St. Louis Blues’ (1925)
• Robert Johnson – ‘Cross Road Blues’ (1937)
• Bo Diddley – ‘I’m a Man’ (1955)
• TLC – ‘Waterfalls’ (1994)
• Hank Williams – ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’ (1949)
• The Beatles – ‘I Am the Walrus’ (1967)
• Cream – ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ (1967)
• The Byrds – ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’ (1965)
• The Supremes – ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ (1966)
• James Brown – ‘Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1’ (1965)
• Bob Dylan – ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ (1963)
• Black Sabbath – ‘Black Sabbath’ (1970)
• Pink Floyd – ‘Echoes’ (1971
• Blondie – ‘Heart of Glass (1978)
• Chic – ‘Everybody Dance’ (1977)
• Bob Marley and The Wailers – ‘One Love’ (reggae – 1977)
• Madness – ‘One Step Beyond’ (ska – 1979)
• Public Enemy – ‘Don’t Believe the Hype’ (1988)
• A-ha – ‘Take On Me’ (1985)
• Jesse Saunders – ‘On and On’ (1984)
• Derrick May – ‘Strings of Life’ (1987)
• The Smiths – ‘How Soon is Now?’ (1984)
• Paul van Dyk – ‘For an Angel’ (1994)
• Goldie – ‘Angel’ (1995
• Soundgarden – ‘Black Hole Sun’ (1994)
• Foo Fighters – ‘Learn to Fly’ (1999)
• Dizzee Rascal – ‘Jus’ a Rascal’ (2003)
• Oasis – ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ (1995)
• Benga/Coki – ‘Night’ (2008)

Tonality

• Adele – ‘Someone Like You’ (2011)
• Led Zeppelin – ‘Stairway to Heaven’ (1971)
• The Beatles – ‘Yesterday’
• Lorde – ‘Royals’ (2013)
• Coldplay – ‘Yellow’ (2000)
• Carole King – ‘You’ve Got a Friend’
• Bon Jovi – ‘Livin’ On a Prayer’ (1986)

Melody

• Whitney Houson – ‘I Will Always Love You’ (recorded in 1992)

Harmony

• Taylor Swift – ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ (2012)
• Ramones’ ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ (1976
• Bob Marley – ‘Redemption Song’ (1980)
• The Beatles – ‘Taxman’ (1966)
• The Police – ‘Every Breath You Take’ (1983)
• Black Sabbath – ‘Iron Man’
• Michael Jackson – ‘Beat It’ (1982)
• The Eagles – ‘Hotel California’ (1976)

Question 11

• Cadence 1
• Cadence 2
• Cadence 3
• Cadence 4

Melody

• Chuck Berry – ‘Johnny B. Goode’ (1958)
• The Ronettes – ‘Be My Baby’ (1964)

Structure and Form

• Adele – ‘Hello’ (2015)
• Nirvana – ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (1991
• Bob Dylan – ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ (1963)
• The Beatles – ‘From Me to You’ (1964)
• Beach Boys – ‘Good Vibrations’ (1966)
• Genesis – ‘Supper’s Ready’ (1972)
• Mala – ‘Changes’ (2007)

Sonority

Question 14

• (a) The Beach Boys – ‘Good Vibrations’ (1966)
• (b) Stevie Wonder – ‘Sir Duke’ (1976)
• (c) Herbie Hancock – ‘Rockit’ (1983)
• (d) Björk – ‘Quicksand’ (2015)
• The Shadows – ‘Apache’

Question 15

• (a) Aretha Franklin – ‘Respect’ (1967)
• (b) Run D M C/Aerosmith – ‘Walk This Way’ (1986)
• (c) Meshuggah – ‘Rational Gaze’ (2002)

Question 16

• (a) Jimi Hendrix – ‘Voodoo Child (Slight Return)’ (1968)
• (b) Pink Floyd – ‘Us and Them’ (1974)
• (c) Gerry Rafferty – ‘Baker Street’ (1978)
• (d) The Flying Lizards – ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’ (1979)

Question 17

• (a) The Animals – ‘The House of the Rising Sun’ (1964)
• (b) Joni Mitchell – ‘My Old Man’ (1971)
• (c) Ed Sheeran – ‘The A Team’ (2011)

Riffs

• Stevie Wonder – ‘Superstition’ (1972)

Question 19

• (a) Nancy Sinatra – ‘These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ (1966)
• (b) The Jackson 5 – ‘ABC’ (1970)
• (c) Michael Jackson – ‘Billie Jean’ (1982)

Drum beats

• Phil Collins – ‘In the Air Tonight’ (1981)
• James Brown – ‘Funky Drummer’
• Emeli Sandé – ‘Heaven’ (2012)

Question 22

• (a) The Byrds – ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ (1965)
• (b) Simon & Garfunkel – ‘Scarborough Fair’ (1966)

Tempo

Question 23

• (a) Lynyrd Skynyrd – ‘Free Bird’ (1974 – tempo change at 4’35)
• (b) Dexys Midnight Runners – 'Come on Eileen' (1982 – tempo change at 2’40”–3’25”)
• (c) Nena – 99 'Luftballons' (1984, tempo changes at 0’28” and 3’10’’)

Metre and Rhythm

Question 24

• (a) Booker T. & the MG's – ‘Green Onions’ (1962)
• (b) Alicia Keys – ‘Fallin’ (2001)
• (c) Venetian Snares – ‘Öngyilkos Vasárnap’ (2005)
• (d) Rush – ‘The Trees’ (1978)
• Led Zeppelin – 'Kashmir' (1975)

Metre and Rhythm (continued)

• Bob Marley – ‘Three Little Birds’ (1977)

Question 27

• (a) Adele – ‘Hello’ (2015)
• (b) Boston – ‘More Than a Feeling’ (1976)
• (c) Flume – 'Helix' (2016)
• (d) The Beatles – 'Helter Skelter' (1968)

Jazz

Contextual Information

• Bessie Smith – ‘St. Louis Blues’ (1925)
• Robert Johnson – ‘Cross Road Blues’ (1937)
• Scott Joplin – ‘Maple Leaf Rag’ (1899)
• Bix Beiderbecke – ‘Singin’ the Blues’ (1927)
• Duke Ellington – ‘Take the A Train’ (1941)
• Charlie Parker – ‘Ko-ko’ (1945)
• Thelonious Monk – ‘Straight, No Chaser’ (1951)
• Miles Davis – ‘Jeru’ (1957)
• Miles Davis – ‘So What’ (1959)
• Albert Ayler – ‘Ghosts: First Variation’ (1964)
• Miles Davis – ‘Bitches Brew’ (1970)
• Chris Potter – ‘The Source’ (2001)
• Public Enemy – ‘Don’t Believe the Hype’ (1988)
• Quintet of the Hot Club of France – ‘Minor Swing’ (1937)

Tonality

• Charlie Parker – ‘Ornithology’ (from 1946)
• Miles Davis – ‘So What’
• Duke Ellington – ‘In a Sentimental Mood’ (recorded in 1935)
• Cecil Taylor – ‘Steps’ (1966)
• ‘Misty’ (sung by Etta James)
• Coltrane’s recording of ‘Giant Steps’ (from 1959)

Melody

• Joseph Kosma / Johnny Mercer / Jacques Prevert – ‘Autumn Leaves’ – (recording by Chet Baker)
• Miles Davis – ‘Four’ (0’08”–0’43”)
• Sonny Rollins’s solo on his piece ‘St. Thomas’ (recorded in 1956)

Harmony

• ‘All The Things You Are’ – sung by Ella Fitzgerald
• Thelonious Monk – ‘Straight No Chaser’ (recorded in 1951)
• Charlie Parker – ‘Blues for Alice’ (recorded in 1951)

Question 8

• ‘Lester Leaps In’ performed by Count Basie’s band in 1939

Question 9

• (a) John Coltrane – 'Mr. P.C.' (1959)
• (b) Herbie Hancock – 'Maiden Voyage' (1965)
• (c) Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington – 'Cottontail' (1965)

Structure and Form

• The Duke Ellington band – 'Satin Doll'

Question 10

• Charlie Parker – ‘Ornithology’

Structure and Form (continued)

• Ella Fitzgerald performing ‘I Got Rhythm’

Question 12

• Chet Baker – recording of ‘Autumn Leaves’
• Neal Hefti – ‘Flight of the Foo Birds’, played by the Count Basie Orchestra in 1958

Question 14

• (a) Bix Beiderbecke – 'In a Mist' (1927)
• (b) Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington – 'Cottontail' (1965)
• (c) Alice Coltrane – 'Journey in Satchidananda' (1971)
• (d) Allan Holdsworth – ‘Devil Take the Hindmost’ (1985)

Question 15

• (a) Kid Ory – ‘Ory’s Creole Trombone’ (1922)
• (b) Duke Ellington – ‘East St. Louis Toodle-Oo’ (1927)
• (c) Joe Henderson – ‘Blue Bossa’ (1963)
• (d) John Coltrane – ‘Ascension’ (1966)

Question 16

• (a) The Quintet of the Hot Club of France – ‘Minor Swing’ (1937)
• (b) Herbie Hancock – ‘Cantaloupe Island’ (1964)
• (c) Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson – ‘That Old Feeling’ (1957)
• (d) Miles Davis (arr. Gil Evans) – ‘Summertime’ (1959)

Question 17

• (a) The Miles Davis Quintet – ‘Oleo’ (1956)
• (b) Herbie Hancock – ‘Chameleon’ (1973
• (c) Miles Davis – ‘In a Silent Way’ (1969)

Question 18

• Bix Beiderbecke’s ‘Jazz Me Blues’ (1924)

Question 19

• Charles Mingus – ‘Moanin’’ (1960)

Other textures

• Coleman Hawkins – ‘Picasso’ (recorded in 1948)
• John Coltrane – ‘Ascension’ (1966)

Tempo

Question 20

• (a) Charlie Parker – ‘Ko-ko’ (1945)
• (b) Grant Green – ‘Idle Moments’ (1965
• (c) Charles Mingus – ‘Haitian Fight Song’ (1957)
• (d) Wynton Marsalis – 'Autumn Leaves' (1987)

Metre and Rhythm

Question 21

• (a) Wayne Shorter – ‘Footprints’ (1966)
• (b) Miles Davis – ‘All Blues’ (1959)
• (c) Charlie Parker – ‘A Night in Tunisia’ (1946, composed by Dizzie Gillespie)

Question 23

• Dave Brubeck – ‘Take Five’ (1959)
• Dave Brubeck – ‘Blue Rondo à la Turk’
• Mahavishnu Orchestra – ‘The Dance of Maya’ (1971)
• Thelonious Monk – ‘Straight No Chaser’ (1951)

Question 24

• (a) Charles Mingus – 'Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting' (1960)
• (b) Count Basie – 'All of Me'
• Ornette Coleman – 'Lonely Woman' (1959)

Practice Exam Questions

• Question 5 AS (a)
• Question 5 AS (b)
• Question 5 AS (c)
• Question 5 A (a)
• Question 5 A (b)
• Question 5 A (c)