Questions to aid aural skills.

Scan your Ipod and press play (hopefully you have a mixture of pieces
from ALL areas of study) Then use these questions to analyse the track.
1) Tonality of the piece?
2) Time signature?
3) Key signature (If you have the notation)
4) What family of instruments are playing....
5) Name the solo instruments?
6) Structure of the piece?
7) What is the cadence at bar?
8) Name the type of voice singing?
9) What is the texture of the piece at bar....
10) How does the melody move ......
11) Which key does the piece move to?
12) Name the interval at bar?
13) What playing technique can hear on instrument
a....
14) Give the Italian term to describe the dynamics at
bar....
15) Give the Italian term to describe the tempo at
bar.....
16) Name the pattern that best describes the form of
the piece
17) Describe the melody in the verse/chorus/a
section/ b section etc
18) What rhythmic feature can you hear at bar....
19) Write one similarity and one difference about the
melody once it is passed from instrument a to b.
20) Describe the texture of the melody line