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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #49113 Short Pop Music
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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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Correct Transcript:

Flip through Rolling Stone, and you'll read about a lot of "revolutions" in popular music: Rock'n'roll and punk, disco and new wave. But for Matthias Mauch—an engineer at Queen Mary University of London—the qualitative analysis of musical evolution—the music critic's take—left him wondering: "Is there some way in which we can take this kind of pub conversation, and make it more quantifiable?" So he and his colleagues analyzed fragments from more than 17,000 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, from 1960 to 2010. They processed the audio to extract information about timbral and harmonic qualities—tagging the files for attributes like "orchestra/harmonic" or "calm/quiet/mellow." Then they used those tags—which they compare to a musical "fossil record"—to tease out trends about musical evolution.
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Printed "revolution", the speaker says "evolution"

Explanation: Listen for "analysis of musical evolution". The printed word "revolution" is on the page. The words start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "fussbudget", the speaker says "processed"

Explanation: You will hear "They processed the audio". The printed word "fussbudget" is on the page. They also end differently, so follow the sound you hear.

Printed "rap", the speaker says "record"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "musical 'fossil record'". You see "rap" on the page, but the speaker says a much longer word. Both words start with r, so wait for the whole word.

"Rolling" matches the audio

Explanation: "Flip through Rolling Stone, and you'll read" has a magazine name you may not know. The speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"Billboard" matches the audio

Explanation: "on the Billboard Hot 100" is a short quoted phrase here. It can trick you, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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