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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. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Dick Clark
Irving Berlin
Polyphonic
2. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
Rockabilly
Blues
AABA form
3. Popularly known as the 'Mother of the Blues -' was the first of the great women blues singers and had a direct influence on Bessie Smith.
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4. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Louis Armstrong
Patsy Cline
Hook
Berry Gordy - Jr.
5. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Hank Williams
sound
Scott Joplin
Benny Goodman
6. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
ASCAP
Scott Joplin
Dick Clark
Harmony
7. 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
The Supremes
Timbre
Phil Spector
8. 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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9. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Electronic recording
Payola
Disc Jockeys
Form
10. 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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11. 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
Gene Autry
Bessie Smith
Race Records
Bob Dylan
12. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Herman Parker
Concept album
Standards
Syncopation
13. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Crooning
Herman Parker
Rockabilly
14. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Gene Autry
Beat
Strophic
Janis Joplin
15. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Elvis Presley
Verse
Scat singing
Standards
16. 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.
Janis Joplin
Bluegrass
The Supremes
Irving Berlin
17. 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
urban folk
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bluegrass
Elvis Presley
18. 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
Electronic recording
Standards
Acoustic recording
Major/Minor
19. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Syncopation
The Supremes
Patsy Cline
Glenn Miller
20. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Dick Clark
Louis Armstrong
Lyricist
21. A guitarist and inventor - designed his own eight-track tape recorder and began in 1948 to release a series of popular recordings featuring his own playing - overdubbed to sound like an ensemble of six or more guitars.
Crooning
Les Paul
Frank Sinatra
Bob Dylan
22. 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
Ray Charles
Minstrel Show
Acoustic recording
Ragtime
23. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Cakewalk
'The twist'
Harmony
Jerry Lee Lewis
24. Vigorous form of country and western music informed by the rhythms of black R&B and electric blues. Exemplified by artists such as Carl Perkins and the young Elvis Presley.
Minstrel Show
Banjo
Timbre
Rockabilly
25. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Bluegrass
Boogie Woogie
Cakewalk
Polyphonic
26. 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).
Boogie Woogie
urban folk
Bel canto
Ballad
27. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Tempo
Scat singing
Dick Clark
Benny Goodman
28. 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
Producer
cadence
Tin Pan Alley
Glenn Miller
29. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Bel canto
Reverb
Race Records
Bluegrass
30. '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.
Benny Goodman
Aretha Franklin
Blues
Berry Gordy - Jr.
31. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Bessie Smith
'The twist'
Payola
Classic blues
32. '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
Texture
Bluegrass
Dick Clark
33. The B section of AABA song form found in the refrain of a Tin Pan Alley song. The bridge presents new material: a new melody - chord changes - and lyrics.
A cappella
Bridge
Brian Wilson
Benny Goodman
34. 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.
Nashville sound
Bel canto
soul music
Herman Parker
35. Four- or five-stringed instrument with a membrane stretched over a wooden or metal hoop that is strummed or plucked. It was developed by slave musicians from African prototypes during the early colonial period. The banjo was used in the music of the
AABA form
Texture
Banjo
The Supremes
36. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
James Brown
Bridge
Form
37. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Countrypolitan
Race Records
Ray Charles
A cappella
38. 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
Minstrel Show
Hank Williams
Boogie Woogie
Les Paul
39. 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.
Buddy Holly
Aretha Franklin
Hook
Bel canto
40. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Arranger
Classic blues
Countrypolitan
Bessie Smith
41. 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.
Rockabilly
Rock 'n' Roll
Electric Guitar
Standards
42. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
sound
A cappella
Les Paul
cadence
43. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Duke Ellington
AABA form
Bob Dylan
44. 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
Bessie Smith
Harmony
Bel canto
45. A short musical passage
phrase
Cakewalk
Chuck Berry
Diana Ross
46. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Race Records
Tin Pan Alley
Rhythm
A cappella
47. 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
Lyrics
Bob Dylan
Gene Autry
Motown
48. 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
Rockabilly
Major/Minor
The Beatles
Ballad
49. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Phil Spector
Strophic
Verse
50. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Race Records
Bridge
Strophic