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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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1. 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.
Chorus
'The twist'
Scott Joplin
Nashville sound
2. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Ballad
Dick Clark
Standards
3. 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
Rockabilly
A cappella
Producer
Buddy Holly
4. 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
Minstrel Show
Brian Wilson
Bessie Smith
Scott Joplin
5. 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
Irving Berlin
James Brown
Refrain
Electric Guitar
6. Born in New Orleans; a cornetist and singer - he established certain core features of jazz - particularly its rhythmic drive and its emphasis on solo instrumental virtuosity. Armstrong also profoundly influenced the development of mainstream popular
The Beatles
Louis Armstrong
Bridge
Duke Ellington
7. The first successful singing cowboy; born in Texas - He was a successful film star and a popular country and western musician. Helped establish the 'western' component of country and western music. Developed a style designed to reach out to a broader
Beat
Gene Autry
Nashville sound
Reverb
8. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Ethel Merman
A cappella
phrase
Bel canto
9. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Hank Williams
Janis Joplin
Motown
Electronic recording
10. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Timbre
Ragtime
Crooning
Berry Gordy - Jr.
11. 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
Sheet music
Blues
Ballad
Harmony
12. 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.
Sheet music
Producer
sound
Herman Parker
13. Africanized version of the European quadrille (a kind of square dance). The cakewalk was developed by slaves as a parody of the 'refined' dance movements of the white slave owners
Elvis Presley
Scott Joplin
Strophic
Cakewalk
14. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Hook
Ballad
Nashville sound
Duke Ellington
15. Founded in 1914 in an attempt to force all business establishments that featured live music to pay fees ('royalties') for the public use of music.
The Beatles
ASCAP
Bridge
Cakewalk
16. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Reverb
Chuck Berry
AABA form
17. 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
The Supremes
Harmony
Rhythm
Bessie Smith
18. 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.
Minstrel Show
Banjo
The Beatles
The Supremes
19. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Duke Ellington
ASCAP
Disc Jockeys
20. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Beat
Race Records
Irving Berlin
Diana Ross
21. '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.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
cadence
Tempo
Hank Williams
22. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
'The twist'
Brian Wilson
Hank Williams
23. '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.
Countrypolitan
Aretha Franklin
urban folk
Louis Armstrong
24. The 'Godfather of Soul.' He was known for his acrobatic physicality and remarkable charisma on stage. No other single musician has proven to be as influential on the sound and style of black music as James Brown.
Rock 'n' Roll
The Supremes
Irving Berlin
James Brown
25. '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
Polyphonic
Timbre
Acoustic recording
26. A recurrent rhythmical series
Herman Parker
soul music
cadence
Reverb
27. A type of song in which a series of verses telling a story - often about a historical event or personal tragedy - are sung to a repeating melody (this sort of musical form is called strophic).
Bluegrass
Ballad
Louis Armstrong
Irving Berlin
28. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Benny Goodman
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
29. 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
Form
R&B
Race Records
Classic blues
30. Founded in 1914 in an attempt to force all business establishments that featured live music to pay fees ('royalties') for the public use of music.
Concept album
ASCAP
Janis Joplin
cadence
31. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Duke Ellington
Bluegrass
Ray Charles
Sheet music
32. The words of a song.
Ragtime
Harmony
Electronic recording
Lyrics
33. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Patsy Cline
Minstrel Show
Race Records
George Gershwin
34. '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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Crooning
Tin Pan Alley
Aretha Franklin
35. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Form
Bob Dylan
Concept album
36. Known as 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll -' the biggest star to come from the country side of the music world. Born in Tupelo - Mississippi - made his first recordings in Memphis at Sun Records - and later recorded for RCA and became a Hollywood film star
Melody
Elvis Presley
Gene Autry
R&B
37. The first successful singing cowboy; born in Texas - He was a successful film star and a popular country and western musician. Helped establish the 'western' component of country and western music. Developed a style designed to reach out to a broader
Gene Autry
Cakewalk
Motown
Producer
38. The most successful white blues singer of the 1960s. Born in Port Arthur - Texas - Joplin came to San Francisco in the mid-1960s and joined a band called Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Bridge
Janis Joplin
Strophic
Standards
39. 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.
Louis Armstrong
Frank Sinatra
Irving Berlin
Motown
40. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Beat
ASCAP
Refrain
Motown
41. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Timbre
Chuck Berry
Buddy Holly
42. Known as 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll -' the biggest star to come from the country side of the music world. Born in Tupelo - Mississippi - made his first recordings in Memphis at Sun Records - and later recorded for RCA and became a Hollywood film star
Elvis Presley
Herman Parker
Hook
Bridge
43. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Big Band
Acoustic recording
Texture
44. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Boogie Woogie
Buddy Holly
Benny Goodman
Ethel Merman
45. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
The Rolling Stones
Strophic
Bridge
Classic blues
46. 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.
James Brown
Tin Pan Alley
Bessie Smith
urban folk
47. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Brian Wilson
Timbre
Dick Clark
Bessie Smith
48. 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.
Frank Sinatra
Electric Guitar
Ray Charles
Hook
49. 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.
Glenn Miller
AABA form
Tin Pan Alley
Cole Porter
50. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Chorus
Patsy Cline
Polyphonic
Classic blues