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Music
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.
George Gershwin
Rockabilly
Buddy Holly
Melody
2. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Ethel Merman
Race Records
Banjo
Melody
3. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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4. 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
Frank Sinatra
Ragtime
Scat singing
Major/Minor
5. Trombonist and bandleader; formed his own band in 1937. Miller developed a peppy - clean-sounding style that appealed to small-town Midwestern people as well as to the big-city - East and West Coast constituency.
A cappella
Glenn Miller
Boogie Woogie
Race Records
6. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Timbre
Janis Joplin
motive
Major/Minor
7. 'Time' in Italian; the rate at which a musical composition proceeds - regulated by the speed of the beats or pulse to which it is performed.
Tempo
Electronic recording
Patsy Cline
Blues
8. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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9. A short musical passage
phrase
Texture
Irving Berlin
cadence
10. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Acoustic recording
Boogie Woogie
Banjo
Ray Charles
11. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Lyricist
Disc Jockeys
Tempo
The Rolling Stones
12. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
James Brown
Paul Whiteman
Ethel Merman
Race Records
13. Introduced as a commercial and marketing term in the mid-1950s for the purpose of identifying a new target audience for musical products. Encompassed a variety of styles and artists from R&B - country - and pop music.
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14. Black female vocal group who were featured artists with Motown Records in the 1960s. Their song 'You Can't Hurry Love' was a Number One hit in 1966.
soul music
The Supremes
Producer
Bridge
15. 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
George Gershwin
Electric Guitar
Rock 'n' Roll
16. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
George Gershwin
Concept album
Herman Parker
Classic blues
17. The son of an immigrant leatherworker - did much to bridge the gulf between art music and popular music. Studied European classical music but also spent a great deal of time listening to jazz musicians in New York City. Wrote Porgy and Bess (1935) -
George Gershwin
sound
Verse
Form
18. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Beat
Motown
Jerry Lee Lewis
cadence
19. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
urban folk
Patsy Cline
Strophic
R&B
20. A style rooted in the venerable southern string band tradition. It combines the banjo - fiddle - mandolin - dobro - guitar - and acoustic bass with a vocal style often dubbed the 'high - lonesome sound.' The pioneer of bluegrass music was Bill Monroe
Bob Dylan
Melody
Bluegrass
Boogie Woogie
21. Brilliantly clever and articulate lyricist and songwriter - fine rock 'n' roll vocal stylist - and pioneering electric guitarist. One of the first black musicians to consciously forge his own R&B styles for appeal to the mass market. Also known for h
Glenn Miller
Buddy Holly
12-bar Blues
Chuck Berry
22. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Arranger
Ethel Merman
Cakewalk
Dick Clark
23. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Herman Parker
Texture
Tempo
George Gershwin
24. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Blues
Irving Berlin
Form
Rock 'n' Roll
25. African American musical genre that emerged after World War II. Consisted of a loose cluster of styles derived from black musical traditions - characterized by energetic and hard-swinging rhythms. At first performed exclusively by black musicians for
Buddy Holly
R&B
Timbre
Bessie Smith
26. The most significant single figure to emerge in country music during the immediate post-World War II period. Williams wrote and sang many songs in the course of his brief career that were enormously popular with country audiences at the time; between
Countrypolitan
Hank Williams
Arranger
Syncopation
27. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
Syncopation
Syncopation
Herman Parker
28. 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
Verse
Classic blues
sound
Payola
29. 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
Concept album
Patsy Cline
Banjo
Ragtime
30. Brilliantly clever and articulate lyricist and songwriter - fine rock 'n' roll vocal stylist - and pioneering electric guitarist. One of the first black musicians to consciously forge his own R&B styles for appeal to the mass market. Also known for h
Diana Ross
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Rolling Stones
Chuck Berry
31. A recurrent rhythmical series
Bel canto
soul music
cadence
Berry Gordy - Jr.
32. A technique used by opera singers that emphasizes breath control - a fluid and relaxed voice - and the use of subtle variations in pitch and rhythmic phrasing for dramatic effect.
The Supremes
Bel canto
George Gershwin
James Brown
33. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Motown
Aretha Franklin
The Beatles
ASCAP
34. Nickname for a stretch of 28th Street in New York City where music publishers had their offices—a dense hive of small rooms with pianos where composers and 'song pluggers' produced and promoted popular songs. The term - which evoked the clanging soun
Tin Pan Alley
Beat
Big Band
Cole Porter
35. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Rock 'n' Roll
Ethel Merman
Polyphonic
Beach Boys
36. Beat - meter - syncopation
Minstrel Show
Gene Autry
Rhythm
A cappella
37. 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
motive
Irving Berlin
Producer
Arranger
38. The words of a song.
Ballad
Disc Jockeys
Lyrics
R&B
39. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Paul Whiteman
Form
Hook
motive
40. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Cole Porter
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Scat singing
Disc Jockeys
41. 'The Queen of Soul -' she began singing gospel music at an early age and had several hit records with Atlantic - including 'Respect' in 1967 and 'Think' in 1968.
Aretha Franklin
Reverb
Bessie Smith
Producer
42. 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
Verse
Irving Berlin
The Beatles
Motown
43. Style of folk music that grew in popularity in the burgeoning New York folk scene during the 1960s. It included artists such as Bob Dylan.
Patsy Cline
Boogie Woogie
urban folk
Irving Berlin
44. 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.
Race Records
Nashville sound
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Lyrics
45. Singer - songwriter - and harmonica player who achieved some success with his R&B band - Little Junior's Blue Flames; recorded 'Mystery Train' for Sam Phillips's Sun label.
Herman Parker
James Brown
Dick Clark
Jerry Lee Lewis
46. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Glenn Miller
Bob Dylan
Beach Boys
Diana Ross
47. 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
Harmony
Producer
Minstrel Show
Irving Berlin
48. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Chorus
Gene Autry
soul music
Bob Dylan
49. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Rock 'n' Roll
Texture
Chuck Berry
Les Paul
50. A musical genre that emerged in black communities of the Deep South-especially the region from the Mississippi Delta to East Texas-sometime around the end of the nineteenth century
Concept album
Blues
The Rolling Stones
James Brown