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A MUSIC LISTENER’S CHECKLIST
Rate and/or evaluate the following elements of music
These are the factors that affect your reaction
- VOLUME: Soft. 1 2 3 4 5 Loud
- MEDIUM: Acoustic or Electronic
- Instrumental: Strings Woodwinds
Brass Percussion
Keyboard Special effects
- Vocal: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass
Ensemble Chorus
- TEMPO: Slow 1 2 3 4 5 Fast
- REGISTER: Low 1 2 3 4 5 High
- DENSITY: Thin 1 2 3 4 5 Thick
- RHYTHM: Regular 1 2 3 4 5 Irregular
- METER: Non-metrical 1 2 3 4 5 Metrical
Duple Triple Compound Mixed
- DURATION: Short 1 2 3 4 5 Long
- PROPORTION: Small 1 2 3 4 5 Large
- TENSION: Consonant 1 2 3 4 5. Dissonant
- ARTICULATION:
Separate (staccato) or Connected (legato)
Conjunct (steps) or Disjunct (skips)
- FORM: Binary Ternary Rondo
Theme & Var. Complex
- TEXTURE: Homophonic Polyphonic
Monophonic Heterophonic
- SCALE: Major Minor Pentatonic Other____