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Junior Cycle Music: Pop, rock & jazz styles

How often Pop, rock & jazz styles comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

Pop, rock & jazz styles, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Pop, rock & jazz styles.

(a)Jazz quavers played unevenly, long then short, instead of evenly, give a…
  1. Straight feel
  2. Swing feel
  3. Waltz feel
(b)Which feature is most typical of jazz?
  1. Plainchant in Latin
  2. Harpsichord continuo
  3. Improvised solos
(c)The 12-bar blues is built mainly on which chords?
  1. I, IV and V
  2. I, ii and vi
  3. ii, iii and vi
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(a) Swing feel

(b) Improvised solos

(c) I, IV and V

Your turn: Common Level questions on Pop, rock & jazz styles.

Common Level

Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q1e, Q1f
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Q4a

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Pop, rock & jazz styles questions

Pop, rock & jazz styles, 2 marks

Which features are typical of gospel music?

  1. Unaccompanied solo singing in Irish
  2. Distorted guitars and heavy riffs
  3. Choirs, call and response, clapping
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Choirs, call and response, clapping

Gospel grew from African American church music. Listen for a lead singer and choir in call and response, rich harmony, melisma, hand-clapping, and piano or organ.

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