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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. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Herman Parker
Reverb
Electronic recording
Ballad
2. 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.
Syncopation
Rockabilly
The Beatles
Cover version
3. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Irving Berlin
sound
Ragtime
Reverb
4. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
The Beatles
Crooning
Race Records
Benny Goodman
5. Dubbed the 'first tycoon of teen -' his studio production techniques are known as the 'wall of sound' because of his utilization of dense orchestrations - multiple instruments - and heavy reverb.
R&B
Phil Spector
Bridge
Banjo
6. 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.
ASCAP
12-bar Blues
Ballad
Cakewalk
7. 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.
Harmony
Bessie Smith
Chorus
Buddy Holly
8. A short musical passage
Texture
AABA form
phrase
Nashville sound
9. 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.
Standards
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Les Paul
10. 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
Boogie Woogie
Hook
phrase
11. 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.
Electric Guitar
Phil Spector
Frank Sinatra
Bluegrass
12. 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
Beat
Cakewalk
Refrain
13. 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
Strophic
Blues
Concept album
Electric Guitar
14. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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15. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Form
Ethel Merman
Tempo
Rock 'n' Roll
16. 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.
Patsy Cline
Cover version
The Supremes
Chorus
17. 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.'
Beach Boys
Irving Berlin
Disc Jockeys
Form
18. 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
Frank Sinatra
Beat
Melody
19. 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
urban folk
Melody
R&B
Reverb
20. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Cover version
Patsy Cline
Aretha Franklin
Crooning
21. 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
Cole Porter
Scat singing
Hank Williams
Brian Wilson
22. 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) -
Beach Boys
George Gershwin
Bessie Smith
Reverb
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
Ragtime
Harmony
James Brown
cadence
24. 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.
'The twist'
Ragtime
Rhythm
urban folk
25. 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
urban folk
Electric Guitar
Benny Goodman
Patsy Cline
26. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Strophic
Syncopation
Producer
Brian Wilson
27. 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
Frank Sinatra
Arranger
The Beatles
Boogie Woogie
28. Founder of Motown Records.
R&B
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Tin Pan Alley
29. 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.
Electric Guitar
Bridge
Jerry Lee Lewis
Gene Autry
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
Bluegrass
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Timbre
Chuck Berry
31. 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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32. 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.
Electronic recording
Standards
Concept album
Berry Gordy - Jr.
33. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Ballad
Cole Porter
Ballad
Patsy Cline
34. A short musical passage
urban folk
AABA form
phrase
Melody
35. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Duke Ellington
Rock 'n' Roll
Ethel Merman
Bessie Smith
36. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Blues
Ballad
Form
George Gershwin
37. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Hank Williams
R&B
Ethel Merman
Timbre
38. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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39. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Rhythm
Chorus
Bridge
Scat singing
40. 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
Verse
Blues
Louis Armstrong
Banjo
41. 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).
Bel canto
Ballad
Cover version
Concept album
42. 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.
Arranger
Les Paul
motive
Bridge
43. 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
urban folk
Patsy Cline
Gene Autry
motive
44. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Duke Ellington
Syncopation
Classic blues
45. 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.
Form
ASCAP
Janis Joplin
Patsy Cline
46. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Frank Sinatra
Race Records
Boogie Woogie
Patsy Cline
47. 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
Herman Parker
Disc Jockeys
Beach Boys
Tin Pan Alley
48. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Janis Joplin
'The twist'
soul music
Refrain
49. 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.
Rockabilly
Classic blues
urban folk
James Brown
50. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Cole Porter
AABA form
Brian Wilson