JAMB Music 2025 past questions

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Ten questions from the 2025 JAMB Music paper, with answers and explanations. We hold 25 questions from this paper, and the Skolra app has all of them.

JAMB Music 2025 questions and answers

1. 1.The song entitled Can We Chill? was composed by
   1. A
      Babyface
      Correct
   2. B
      Luther Vandross
   3. C
      R. Kelly
   4. D
      Teddy Riley
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   Answer: A

   "Can We Chill?" is an R&B single written and performed by Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds) from his 1993 album For the Cool in You.
2. 2.Rock the Party is a hit song by
   1. A
      Akon
   2. B
      50 Cent
   3. C
      Usher
   4. D
      Benzino
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   Answer: D

   "Rock tha Party (Off the Hook)" was a charting hip-hop/R&B hit by Benzino featuring Mario Winans, released in 2002.
3. 3.The Griots of Senegambia are examples of
   1. A
      Royal dancers
   2. B
      Instrument makers
   3. C
      Religious priests
   4. D
      Oral historians and praise singers
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   Answer: D

   The Griots of Senegambia are hereditary oral historians, praise singers and musicians who preserve and transmit community history through song.
4. 4.We are H.A.P.P.Y is a Nigerian
   1. A
      work song
   2. B
      children's song
      Correct
   3. C
      funeral dirge
   4. D
      war song
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   Answer: B

   'We are H.A.P.P.Y' is a simple, repetitive, call-and-response, spelling-based chorus of the type used to teach and entertain young children, classifying it as a children's song.
5. 5.Which of the following wrote compositions using the atonal style?
   1. A
      Ludwig van Beethoven
   2. B
      Johann Sebastian Bach
   3. C
      Arnold Schoenberg
      Correct
   4. D
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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   Answer: C

   Arnold Schoenberg pioneered atonal composition in the early 20th century, later developing the twelve-tone (serial) technique.
6. 6.Allemande is a dance in
   1. A
      Triple time
   2. B
      Duple time
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   3. C
      Compound time
   4. D
      Quintuple time
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   Answer: B

   The Allemande is a Baroque dance of German origin written in moderate duple (4/4) time, typically the opening movement of an instrumental suite.
7. 7.The song entitled Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is an example of a
   1. A
      Gospel hymn
   2. B
      Work song
   3. C
      Nigerian folk song
   4. D
      Negro spiritual
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   Answer: D

   "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a well-known Negro spiritual originating among enslaved African Americans in the 19th century.
8. 8.Special words that are said to have magical effects are referred to as
   1. A
      Lullabies
   2. B
      Incantations
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   3. C
      Proverbs
   4. D
      Folktales
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   Answer: B

   Incantations are special spoken or chanted words believed to produce magical or supernatural effects.
9. 9.Sing ye choirs of angels Sing to God on high. The text above is best represented in
   1. A
      a carol
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   2. B
      a military march
   3. C
      an opera
   4. D
      a madrigal
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   Answer: A

   "Sing ye choirs of angels, Sing to God on high" is a devotional stanza of the Christmas text found in carols such as 'O Come, All Ye Faithful'; festive texts praising God sung at Christmas are classed as carols.
10. 10.Gulum is an example of
    1. A
       A membranophone
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    2. B
       An aerophone
    3. C
       An idiophone
    4. D
       A chordophone
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    Answer: A

    Gulum is a large traditional drum used in Northern Nigerian royal/ceremonial music, classifying it as a membranophone (a skin-headed drum sounded by striking).

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