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    The document provides keywords for different musical elements of pop music from the 1970s-1980s to help answer an 8 mark question. It lists common instruments of the time like electric guitar and bass, drums, and keyboards. It describes typical textures like melody and accompaniment. It outlines common tempos, rhythms, and time signatures. It also notes common structures like ballads with repeated choruses and rock songs with shouted vocals. Harmonies were often simple and ballads featured romantic storytelling in their lyrics while rock told darker stories.

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    The document provides keywords for different musical elements of pop music from the 1970s-1980s to help answer an 8 mark question. It lists common instruments of the time like electric guitar and bass, drums, and keyboards. It describes typical textures like melody and accompaniment. It outlines common tempos, rhythms, and time signatures. It also notes common structures like ballads with repeated choruses and rock songs with shouted vocals. Harmonies were often simple and ballads featured romantic storytelling in their lyrics while rock told darker stories.

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    The document provides keywords for different musical elements of pop music from the 1970s-1980s to help answer an 8 mark question. It lists common instruments of the time like electric guitar and bass, drums, and keyboards. It describes typical textures like melody and accompaniment. It outlines common tempos, rhythms, and time signatures. It also notes common structures like ballads with repeated choruses and rock songs with shouted vocals. Harmonies were often simple and ballads featured romantic storytelling in their lyrics while rock told darker stories.

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    8 Mark Question Response

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    The document provides keywords for different musical elements of pop music from the 1970s-1980s to help answer an 8 mark question. It lists common instruments of the time like electric guitar and bass, drums, and keyboards. It describes typical textures like melody and accompaniment. It outlines common tempos, rhythms, and time signatures. It also notes common structures like ballads with repeated choruses and rock songs with shouted vocals. Harmonies were often simple and ballads featured romantic storytelling in their lyrics while rock told darker stories.

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    The 8 Mark Question – AOS5 Conventions of Pop Music 1970's –80's

    Know your keywords for each category the question asks you to consider.
    Instruments/Timbre/Instrument  Tempo/Rhythm/Metre Texture Structure Harmony/Tonality
    techniques/Effects
    Electric guitar – Distortion, 4/4 time signature Melody and Ballads- Variety of Simple harmonies -
    Delay effects, wah-wah Slow metre – Ballads Accompaniment  structures: same ballads
    techniques, long virtuosic Fast metre  – Rock rhythm but different
    solos, improvisation on solos Anthems vocals, repeated
    Electric Bass – walking, Ballads- simple choruses, sometimes
    rolling basslines, rhythms same through-composed.
    syncopated,  throughout.
    Drum Kit – Heavy back
    beats, snares accented on
    beats 2 and 4 
    Keyboards
    Vocals:
    Ballads- told romantic
    stories
    Rock – Also told stories, but
    often shouted, screamed the
    lyrics, more darker tones,
    serious
    Marius
    Compare the 2 extracts of Rock Music from the 1970's - 80's, comment on the use of instruments, tempo, rhythm, structure and any other relevant features.
    Lottie
    Compare the 2 extracts of Rock Music from the 1970's - 80's, comment on the use of instruments, tempo, rhythm, structure and any other relevant features.
    Jasmine
    Compare the 2 extracts of Rock Music from the 1970's - 80's, comment on the use of instruments, tempo, rhythm, structure and any other relevant features.
    Mary
    Compare the 2 extracts of Rock Music from the 1970's - 80's, comment on the use of instruments, tempo, rhythm, structure and any other relevant features.

    Smoke on the Water uses an electric guitar with a distortion effect on it, as its main accompanying instrument
    to the melody. The electric guitar plays a short repetitive ostinato throughout intro of the song. A drum kit joins
    the electric guitar a few bars in using a snare to accent the 2nd and 4th beats of the backbeat. The singer half
    shouts and sings in areas of the song. The tempo is a 4/4 common time with a fast tempo.
    Total Eclipse of the Heart is written more as a ballad in the introduction of the song, however later in the chorus
    more common features of rock music is more apparent, with the shouting of the lyrics that is more common in
    rock. The piano is the main accompanying instrument, playing a repetitive ostinato of notes that move by leaps
    and change in pitch. The tempo is in 4/4 common time the same as Smoke on The Water but has a slow tempo
    unlike Smoke on The Water’s fast tempo. Total Eclipse of the heart tells a story with its lyrics unlike Smoke on
    The Water, its lyrics are heart rendering and speak of love. Total Eclipse of The Heart has a simple melody
    structure and has a simplicity in its use of instruments to draw the main focus to the singer and their
    storytelling, compared to Smoke on The Water that has a heavy focus on the instruments of the song, mainly
    the guitar riff.
    Tyler
    Compare the 2 extracts of Rock Music from the 1970's - 80's, comment on the use of instruments, tempo, rhythm, structure and any other relevant features.
    Rachel
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