Listening

Six key areas to think about:

• Melody • Texture
• Harmony • Instrument
• Rhythm • Form
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One melody line? Which instruments/voices?

Sequences? Improvisation?
Range of notes?
Riffs?
Repetitive?
Melody Call and response?
New ideas?
Question and answer?
Conjunct/Disjunct?
Dissonant? Ideas extended?
Fast moving? Scales used?
Chromatic?
Major? Minor?
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Imperfect?
Atonal? Perfect? Plagal?
Minor? Chromaticism? Cadences?
Tonality? Interrupted?
Diatonic? Major?
Harmony Harmonic progression?
Minor? Augmented?
Chords? Seventh?
Chord sequence?
Major? Diminished? Chordal?
Harmonic rhythm?
Triadic? Tonic/Dominant? Arpeggiated?
Modulation? Relative major/minor?
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Ostinato?
Anacrusis?
Pulse? Dotted?
Metronomic?
Tempo?
Beats in bar? Rubato?
Rhythm
Syncopation? Instruments keeping rhythm?

Cross-rhythms?
Swung? Strong beats?

Polyrhythms?
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Counterpoint?
Unison? Polyphonic? Does it change?
Fugue?
Monophonic?

Homophonic? Texture How many layers?

Chordal?
Thick? Roles of instruments/voices?
Thin?
Heterophonic?
Melody and accompaniment?
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Harmony
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Form