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Music
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Motown
Standards
Rhythm
2. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Refrain
Ethel Merman
Dick Clark
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
3. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Irving Berlin
Motown
Duke Ellington
Crooning
4. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Rockabilly
Herman Parker
Bridge
Hook
5. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Acoustic recording
Buddy Holly
Beat
Refrain
6. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Syncopation
Ray Charles
Bessie Smith
7. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
12-bar Blues
Cakewalk
Ray Charles
Nashville sound
8. A version of a previously recorded performance; often an adaptation of the original's style and sensibility - and usually aimed at cashing in on its success.
Countrypolitan
Cover version
AABA form
Duke Ellington
9. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
Minstrel Show
A cappella
Patsy Cline
R&B
10. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
The Beatles
Gene Autry
Timbre
Disc Jockeys
11. Motive - phrase - cadence
Tin Pan Alley
Bessie Smith
Melody
Form
12. Beat - meter - syncopation
AABA form
Rhythm
Standards
Acoustic recording
13. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
Melody
Paul Whiteman
12-bar Blues
14. Generally recognized as the most productive - varied - and creative of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters. His professional songwriting career started before World War I and continued into the 1960s. His most famous songs include 'Alexander's Ragtime Band
The Supremes
Syncopation
Irving Berlin
Hank Williams
15. Usually sets up a dramatic context or emotional tone. Although verses were the most important part of nineteenth-century popular songs - they were regarded as mere introductions by the 1920s - and today the verses of Tin Pan Alley songs are infrequen
Texture
Verse
Bluegrass
Ballad
16. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Polyphonic
Concept album
Herman Parker
Beach Boys
17. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Electronic recording
Diana Ross
Form
Producer
18. Rock group from Liverpool - England - who dominated American popular music during the mid-1960s and started the 'British Invasion.' The band included John Lennon and George Harrison on lead and rhythm guitars and vocals - Paul McCartney on bass and v
Benny Goodman
Ballad
Rock 'n' Roll
The Beatles
19. The scale systems central to Western music; a series of pitches organized in a specific order of whole- and half-step intervals. The major scale can give music a feeling of openness and brightness - whereas a minor scale can give music the feeling of
Cakewalk
Major/Minor
Sheet music
Harmony
20. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Rockabilly
Banjo
Refrain
Texture
21. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Les Paul
Ballad
cadence
Harmony
22. One of the most common structures that Tin Pan Alley composers used to organize their melodic and harmonic material. This structure would be found in the refrain of a verse-refrain song.
Harmony
motive
AABA form
Lyrics
23. The word derives from the African American term 'to rag -' meaning to enliven a piece of music by shifting melodic accents onto the offbeats (a technique known as syncopation). Ragtime music emerged in the 1880s - its popularity peaking in the decade
Standards
Bel canto
Ragtime
Cakewalk
24. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Boogie Woogie
Cakewalk
Countrypolitan
25. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Bessie Smith
Banjo
Jerry Lee Lewis
Hank Williams
26. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Scat singing
Aretha Franklin
Texture
Ethel Merman
27. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Arranger
12-bar Blues
Herman Parker
Louis Armstrong
28. Called the 'Empress of the Blues -' She was born in Chattanooga - Tennessee - and performed in traveling shows and vaudeville before embarking on a recording career with Columbia Records. Her recordings include W. C. Handy's 'St. Louis Blues' and Irv
Ray Charles
Producer
Bessie Smith
Strophic
29. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Disc Jockeys
Harmony
Jerry Lee Lewis
Scat singing
30. Urban folk singer and songwriter; he took his stage name from his favorite poet - Dylan Thomas. His songs include hits such as 'Blowin' in the Wind -' 'Mr. Tambourine Man -' and 'Like a Rolling Stone.'
Reverb
Janis Joplin
Brian Wilson
Bob Dylan
31. American popular songs from the Tin Pan Alley style of songwriting that remain an essential part of the repertoire of today's jazz musicians and pop singers.
Tempo
Standards
Hank Williams
Harmony
32. African American composer and pianist; the best-known composer of ragtime music. Between 1895 and 1915 - Joplin composed many of the classics of the ragtime repertoire and helped popularize the style through his piano arrangements - published as shee
Scott Joplin
Diana Ross
Texture
sound
33. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
sound
Ray Charles
Syncopation
Big Band
34. Born in Hoboken New Jersey into a working-class Italian family. His singing style combined the crooning style of Bing Crosby with the bel canto technique of Italian opera.
Scat singing
Frank Sinatra
Janis Joplin
Ragtime
35. Early rock 'n' roll guitarist - singer - and songwriter from the country/rockabilly side of rock 'n' roll. Killed tragically at the age of twenty-two in a plane crash.
Bob Dylan
Jerry Lee Lewis
Rock 'n' Roll
Buddy Holly
36. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Cole Porter
Aretha Franklin
Arranger
37. Urban folk singer and songwriter; he took his stage name from his favorite poet - Dylan Thomas. His songs include hits such as 'Blowin' in the Wind -' 'Mr. Tambourine Man -' and 'Like a Rolling Stone.'
Bob Dylan
Sheet music
Boogie Woogie
Hook
38. One of the most common structures that Tin Pan Alley composers used to organize their melodic and harmonic material. This structure would be found in the refrain of a verse-refrain song.
AABA form
Cakewalk
ASCAP
Berry Gordy - Jr.
39. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Hank Williams
Crooning
Louis Armstrong
Timbre
40. The leader and guiding spirit of the Beach Boys during their first decade. He wrote and produced many of the Beach Boys' biggest hits - including 'Good Vibrations.'
Buddy Holly
Tin Pan Alley
Countrypolitan
Brian Wilson
41. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Bluegrass
Scat singing
Form
42. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Crooning
Strophic
Boogie Woogie
Chorus
43. Behind-the-scenes role at a record company. Can be responsible for booking time in the recording studio - hiring backup singers and instrumentalists - assisting with the engineering process - and imprinting the characteristic sound of the finished re
Beat
Bridge
Diana Ross
Producer
44. Called the 'Empress of the Blues -' She was born in Chattanooga - Tennessee - and performed in traveling shows and vaudeville before embarking on a recording career with Columbia Records. Her recordings include W. C. Handy's 'St. Louis Blues' and Irv
Producer
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Bob Dylan
45. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Timbre
Irving Berlin
Rockabilly
Disc Jockeys
46. A guitar whose sound comes chiefly from electro-magnetic amplification The pioneer of electric blues guitar was Aaron T-Bone Walker - whose urban blues recordings just after World War II were extremely popular - Les Paul created
Electric Guitar
Glenn Miller
Banjo
soul music
47. Founded in California in 1961 - they popularized the 'California sound' in the early 1960s. Their hit songs included 'Surfin' Safari -' 'Surfer Girl -' 'California Girls -' 'Surfin' USA' and 'Good Vibrations.'
AABA form
Janis Joplin
Beach Boys
George Gershwin
48. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
urban folk
ASCAP
Race Records
cadence
49. Blues piano tradition that sprang up during the early twentieth century in the 'southwest territory' states of Texas - Arkansas - Missouri - and Oklahoma. In boogie-woogie performances - the pianist typically plays a repeated pattern with his left ha
Boogie Woogie
Crooning
Paul Whiteman
Concept album
50. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
Electric Guitar
Rockabilly
Minstrel Show
cadence