Wider Listening
Music: Edexcel GCSE, topic 3.2.3
Wider Listening
The following suggested pieces allow you to extend your knowledge of the set work by hearing other pieces that contain similar or contrasting features.
Beach Boys
- Beach Boys, God Only Knows, from Pet Sounds.
- This track uses layered vocals in the same way Killer Queen uses layered sounds.
- Multitrack recording: this piece would have been recorded in the same way with each track being overdubbed on top of each other.
Wider Listening
The following suggested pieces allow you to extend your knowledge of the set work by hearing other pieces that contain similar or contrasting features.
Alicia Keys
- Alicia Keys, Dragon Days, from The Diary of Alicia Keys.
- Uses overdubbing and multitrack recording techniques.
- This piece is harmonically simple compared to Killer Queen.
- Vocal textures create interesting timbre within the piece.
Test yourself on Wider Listening
Which Beach Boys album is the track God Only Knows from?