Rock to Bach Midterm Listening Exam – TCU Music Theory and Wider
Listening Assessment
"Rocket 88" - Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats - ✔✔Form - Simple Verse
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Piano, drums, saxophone, vocals, distorted electric guitar playing a repeated
boogie-woogie pattern.
"Sh-Boom" - The Chords - ✔✔Form - Simple Verse with several interludes and a bridge
Time Signature - 12/8
Instrumentation - Electric Guitar, bass, piano, drums, saxophone, solo vocals, lead vocals
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley - ✔✔Form - Simple Verse
Time Signature - 12/8 (shuffle in four)
Instrumentation - Electric Guitar, piano, acoustic bass, drums, and lead vocals
"Great Balls of Fire" - Jerry Lee Lewis - ✔✔Form - AABA (full reprise)
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Piano, drums, acoustic bass, lead vocals
"Can the Circle be Unbroken" - The Carter Family - ✔✔Form - Simple verse - chorus
Time Signature - 2/4 with dropped beats
Instrumentation - Acoustic guitar, two female and one male voice, one with female voice taking
the lead during verses and choruses sung in three-part harmony
"That'll be the Day" - The Crickets - ✔✔Form - Contrasting verse-chorus with instrumental
bridge
, Time Signature - 12/8 (shuffle in 4)
Instrumentation - Electric Guitar, acoustic bass, drums, lead back up vocals
"Josie" - Steely Dan - ✔✔Form - Compound AABA form, with A sections making a verse-chorus
pair
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - electric piano, singing, solo electric guitar, horns, percussion
"Somewhere over the Rainbow" - Judy Garland with Victor Young and his Orchestra - ✔✔Form
- AABA
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Vocalist with Orchestra
"All or Nothing at All" - Frank Sinatra with Harry James and His Orchestra - ✔✔Form - AABA
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Big band with trumpets, saxophones, trombones, piano, drums, bass etc.
"I'm Sittin' on Top of the World" - Les Paul and Mary Ford - ✔✔Form - AABA
Time Signature - 2/4 with verse in 4/4
Instrumentation -
"Hey Good Lookin'" - Hank Williams - ✔✔Form - AABA
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Acoustic guitars, bass, steel guitar, fiddle, lead vocal, NO DRUMS
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" - ✔✔Form - Simple Verse
Listening Assessment
"Rocket 88" - Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats - ✔✔Form - Simple Verse
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Piano, drums, saxophone, vocals, distorted electric guitar playing a repeated
boogie-woogie pattern.
"Sh-Boom" - The Chords - ✔✔Form - Simple Verse with several interludes and a bridge
Time Signature - 12/8
Instrumentation - Electric Guitar, bass, piano, drums, saxophone, solo vocals, lead vocals
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley - ✔✔Form - Simple Verse
Time Signature - 12/8 (shuffle in four)
Instrumentation - Electric Guitar, piano, acoustic bass, drums, and lead vocals
"Great Balls of Fire" - Jerry Lee Lewis - ✔✔Form - AABA (full reprise)
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Piano, drums, acoustic bass, lead vocals
"Can the Circle be Unbroken" - The Carter Family - ✔✔Form - Simple verse - chorus
Time Signature - 2/4 with dropped beats
Instrumentation - Acoustic guitar, two female and one male voice, one with female voice taking
the lead during verses and choruses sung in three-part harmony
"That'll be the Day" - The Crickets - ✔✔Form - Contrasting verse-chorus with instrumental
bridge
, Time Signature - 12/8 (shuffle in 4)
Instrumentation - Electric Guitar, acoustic bass, drums, lead back up vocals
"Josie" - Steely Dan - ✔✔Form - Compound AABA form, with A sections making a verse-chorus
pair
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - electric piano, singing, solo electric guitar, horns, percussion
"Somewhere over the Rainbow" - Judy Garland with Victor Young and his Orchestra - ✔✔Form
- AABA
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Vocalist with Orchestra
"All or Nothing at All" - Frank Sinatra with Harry James and His Orchestra - ✔✔Form - AABA
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Big band with trumpets, saxophones, trombones, piano, drums, bass etc.
"I'm Sittin' on Top of the World" - Les Paul and Mary Ford - ✔✔Form - AABA
Time Signature - 2/4 with verse in 4/4
Instrumentation -
"Hey Good Lookin'" - Hank Williams - ✔✔Form - AABA
Time Signature - 4/4
Instrumentation - Acoustic guitars, bass, steel guitar, fiddle, lead vocal, NO DRUMS
"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" - ✔✔Form - Simple Verse
