Bonjour.

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EXAMEN D'ÉCOUTE
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L'examen d'écoute aura lieu entre 13h et 14h20 le mardi 4 décembre.
Il y aura 20 exemples d'écoute, chacun avec une durée d'une minute environ.
Il y aura une pause d'une minute (à peu près) entre chaque exemple (= 40 mins). 
Cette procédure se répète une seule fois (+ 40 mins. = 1 heure et 20 minutes). 

Vous n'aurez pas le temps d'écrire grand'chose.
Pour vous donner une idée de ce à quoi vous pouvez vous attendre 
dans l'examen d'écoute vous trouverez en ligne les exemples (intégraux) 
utilisés dans un examen d'écoute MUL1121 récent. 
Ces exemples sont téléchargeables sous forme compactée (.ZIP). 
Si vous voulez écouter ces exemples, suivez les instructions suivantes :

1. Cliquez sur ce lien 
   ---> http://tagg.org/!temp/MUL1121EcoutExx.zip
2. Sauvgardez le grand fichier compacté sur votre ordinateur 
   (2 minutes de téléchargement à haute vitesse ridicule).
3. Ouvrez le fichier que vous venez de sauvgarder.
4. Avec votre logiciel « ZIP » (ex. WinZip, AlZip), 
   décompactez le fichier vers un dossier précis.
5. Sélectionnez le fichier « Playlist » 
   MUL1121Xm06.m3u ou faites votre propre playlist.
   
Bonne chance,

Philip Tagg


De bonnes réponses
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Cet anglophone anonyme n'a pas écrit grand'chose,
mais ce qu'il a noté est concis et correct. 
Ce n'est pas parfait mais ça vaut quand-même un A+. 

01. Big Mama Thornton: "Hound Dog". 
This black female R&B artist recorded this song, 
by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, 
before Elvis Presley covered it as a commercial hit in 1956.

02. Pat Boone: "Tutti Frutti" (1956?).
This is the "nice young white guy cover" of Little Richard's 
original 1955 version. In those early days of rock 'n' roll
music markets were still quite racially segregated.

03. Scottish fiddle music, actually a Strathspey, 
played here by Farquhar MacRae. 
You can't hear where the downbeat is until the end of the 
first 8-bar phrase. 
The "Scotch snaps" were also popular with black musicians.

04. Ohio Express: "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (1968?). 
US bubblegum pop from the late 60s when previously popular bands 
like the Beatles had started producing experimental stuff which 
was not so popular with younger pop listeners.

05. Bob Marley and the Wailers: "Get Up Stand Up" (1973). 
Classic reggae track with active bass line and rousing rebellious lyrics. 

06. Waylon Jennings: "Dukes of Hazzard" (late 70s). 
Latter-day country ballad used as theme for TV series. 
Clean guitar sound and use of bass register by male vocalist. 
Odd periodicity sometimes...

07. Beatles: "Tomorrow Never Knows" from album "Revolver" (1966). 
Tape manipulation (played backwards, loops), use of sitar, 
"unreal" voice filtering, etc. Experimental, 
the sort of thing that made "Yummy Yummy" necessary! 
Probably influenced by producer George Martin's ideas and 
conceived by John Lennon and/or George Harrison. Not a McCartney track!

08. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Irving Berlin (1911), 
here in a recording, probably from the 1930s, by a big band, 
perhaps Benny Goodman's (yes, it is!). 
Many recorded versions of Alexander's Ragtime Band exist 
from the era when the song, sold as sheet music, 
rather than the artist was the "product".

09. Jimi Hendrix: "All Along The Watchtower" 
from album Electric Ladyland (1968). 
A very different cover of the Bob Dylan original 
on album John Wesley Harding (also 1968). 
Aeolian shuttle (Am <--> F) gives an eerie feel. 

10. Lonnie Donegan with skiffle group: "Rock Island Line" (1957). 
This US folk classic is a talking blues recorded much earlier by Leadbelly. 
Skiffle groups were amateur home made bands very popular in the US and the UK 
(Donegan was the most popular of these in the UK). 
Even the Beatles started as a skiffle group (The Quarrymen).

11. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: "Steel Guitar Rag" (1940s), 
genre Western Swing (mixture of Country and swing). 
This is an uptempo track in 12-bar blues form, 
good for lively dancing and featuring violin, 
steel guitar and sax as solo instruments: quite a mixture!

12. The Animals: "Boom Boom Boom Boom" (1964). 
Regular, uptempo 12-bar blues based on the much less regular 
original by John Lee Hooker (1962). 
The Animals, from Newcastle, were, along with the Rolling Stones, 
one of the British bands to re-acquaint US-Americans with their own black heritage.

13. This is "Dixie", the Confederate (Southern US states) anthem, 
written by Dan Emmett in the mid 19th century. 
Here it is played by a string band combo.

14. Aretha Franklin: "Respect" (1967), 
recorded on the Atlantic label which signed a lot of soul artists. 
Clear influences from gospel singing (lead and backing vocals). 
Lively bass line.

15. "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Gershwin's musical "Porgy & Bess" (1935). 
I think this is sung by Cab Calloway 
(the guy who looks like a 1930s version of Prince) (yes, it is!).
Minor-key song mixing jazz and blues elements.

16. The Beatles: "Mr Postman" (1963) on their second album ("With the Beatles"). 
Cover of the original Motown version (1962) by the Marvelettes.

17. West African traditional music with shuffle (12/8) feel and 
descending minor pentatonic melodic lines resembling those of 
country blues in the US south. 
(Actually it's the Fra Fra people from Ghana singing the praises of salt.)

18. Chuck Berry: "Route 66" (1961). 
Recorded on the Chicago blues label Chess, the original was by 
country artist Bobby Troup in a recording by popular mainstream 
vocal group The Andrews Sisters (1939). 
Berry used a lot of country guitar sound in his R&B influenced 
type of rock 'n' roll. 
This song is a typical crossover between country and rock 'n' roll. 
The same song was also recorded in 1963 by The Rolling Stones.

19. Donna Summer: "Hot Stuff" (1979). 
Very popular disco number with regular 4 x 4 kick drum throughout 
and totally yellable hook "HOT STUFF!".

20. Joseph Spence: "Sloop John B" (late 1960s?). 
This old guy from the Bahamas sounds like he's way out of sync 
but he is in fact metronomically 100% there. 
This song was recorded in a much more "tidy" version by The Beach Boys.