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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Clarinetist and popular band leader; known as the 'King of Swing.' His popularity and the success of his band helped establish the swing era in the early 1930s. He was the first white bandleader to hire black musicians in his band
Benny Goodman
Nashville sound
ASCAP
Strophic
2. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Tin Pan Alley
Blues
Disc Jockeys
Rockabilly
3. 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
Louis Armstrong
soul music
Disc Jockeys
urban folk
4. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Bridge
soul music
urban folk
The Rolling Stones
5. 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
cadence
Dick Clark
Blues
6. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Bel canto
Scott Joplin
Refrain
'The twist'
7. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Texture
Countrypolitan
Electric Guitar
sound
8. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Benny Goodman
Sheet music
Standards
12-bar Blues
9. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Payola
Acoustic recording
Dick Clark
Chuck Berry
10. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
A cappella
Hank Williams
Arranger
Cole Porter
11. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Cover version
Electronic recording
Patsy Cline
urban folk
12. 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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13. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Chorus
Ballad
Boogie Woogie
14. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
Disc Jockeys
cadence
Hook
15. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
The Rolling Stones
Concept album
Sheet music
ASCAP
16. 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.
A cappella
Bel canto
Tin Pan Alley
soul music
17. 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
Lyrics
Cakewalk
cadence
ASCAP
18. 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.
Melody
Buddy Holly
Jerry Lee Lewis
Diana Ross
19. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Glenn Miller
George Gershwin
Boogie Woogie
Form
20. 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.
Janis Joplin
Tempo
urban folk
Beach Boys
21. 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.
Sheet music
Buddy Holly
Brian Wilson
Standards
22. Bandleader for the most successful dance orchestra of the 1920s. He billed himself as the 'King of Jazz -' widened the market for jazz-based dance music - and paved the way for the Swing Era.
Bessie Smith
Classic blues
Paul Whiteman
Rockabilly
23. 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.
Syncopation
Countrypolitan
Standards
Refrain
24. 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
The Supremes
Irving Berlin
AABA form
Producer
25. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
George Gershwin
Strophic
Scott Joplin
Ray Charles
26. 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.'
Brian Wilson
Disc Jockeys
Polyphonic
Major/Minor
27. Pianist - composer - arranger - and bandleader; widely regarded as one of the most important American musicians of the twentieth century. As a composer and arranger - he devised unusual musical forms - combined instruments in unusual ways - and creat
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
Ballad
Ethel Merman
28. 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
Cole Porter
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bluegrass
Form
29. 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.
R&B
Glenn Miller
Patsy Cline
Janis Joplin
30. Short for reverberation. An effect produced with an electronic device that adds a time delay to a sound and then adds it back to the signal.
Reverb
Diana Ross
Bridge
Rockabilly
31. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
soul music
Hook
Blues
Duke Ellington
32. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
AABA form
Tin Pan Alley
33. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Patsy Cline
soul music
Arranger
Concept album
34. 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.
Motown
AABA form
Rock 'n' Roll
Ballad
35. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Lyrics
Scat singing
Payola
36. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Scott Joplin
Timbre
Electronic recording
Chorus
37. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Elvis Presley
Payola
Diana Ross
Polyphonic
38. The words of a song.
Verse
Lyrics
urban folk
Berry Gordy - Jr.
39. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Acoustic recording
Countrypolitan
James Brown
40. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Classic blues
Bessie Smith
Electric Guitar
41. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
Timbre
A cappella
Rock 'n' Roll
42. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
12-bar Blues
Countrypolitan
Payola
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
43. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
urban folk
Bluegrass
The Beatles
motive
44. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Beat
Harmony
Producer
45. 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
Melody
Bob Dylan
Ballad
46. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Patsy Cline
Bob Dylan
Timbre
Elvis Presley
47. 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
Race Records
Scat singing
Cakewalk
Bessie Smith
48. 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.
Boogie Woogie
Sheet music
Glenn Miller
Arranger
49. '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.
Elvis Presley
Verse
Harmony
Aretha Franklin
50. 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
Major/Minor
Lyrics
Verse
Refrain