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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. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Cover version
Polyphonic
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Louis Armstrong
2. 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.
Glenn Miller
Hook
Paul Whiteman
Beach Boys
3. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Brian Wilson
Hook
phrase
Bob Dylan
4. 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
Benny Goodman
A cappella
Gene Autry
Jerry Lee Lewis
5. 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).
Ballad
R&B
Les Paul
Classic blues
6. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
A cappella
R&B
Texture
Beach Boys
7. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
The Beatles
Classic blues
Electric Guitar
Chorus
8. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Brian Wilson
Boogie Woogie
The Supremes
9. The standard form of a blues song: a twelve-bar structure made up of three phrases of four bars each; a basic three-chord pattern; and a three-line AAB text.
cadence
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
12-bar Blues
10. 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
Elvis Presley
Blues
'The twist'
Ragtime
11. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
R&B
Timbre
Ethel Merman
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
12. 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
AABA form
Lyrics
Cakewalk
The Beatles
13. A recurrent rhythmical series
Ballad
Major/Minor
cadence
Producer
14. 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
Boogie Woogie
Texture
Diana Ross
15. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Harmony
Chorus
Disc Jockeys
Les Paul
16. 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
soul music
Bessie Smith
Bluegrass
Big Band
17. A version of a previously recorded performance; often an adaptation of the original's style and sensibility - and usually aimed at cashing in on its success.
Paul Whiteman
Hank Williams
Countrypolitan
Cover version
18. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Ray Charles
Race Records
Bel canto
Chuck Berry
19. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Glenn Miller
Scat singing
Chorus
12-bar Blues
20. 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
Hank Williams
Phil Spector
Boogie Woogie
The Supremes
21. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Beat
Big Band
Rhythm
22. A version of a previously recorded performance; often an adaptation of the original's style and sensibility - and usually aimed at cashing in on its success.
Cover version
Rockabilly
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Polyphonic
23. 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.
Glenn Miller
Reverb
Scat singing
Berry Gordy - Jr.
24. Beat - meter - syncopation
Hank Williams
The Supremes
Lyricist
Rhythm
25. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Diana Ross
James Brown
Texture
26. 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
AABA form
R&B
Ray Charles
Chuck Berry
27. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Verse
Chorus
Race Records
Electronic recording
28. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Syncopation
Frank Sinatra
Reverb
29. 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.
Electric Guitar
The Beatles
Rockabilly
Nashville sound
30. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Electronic recording
Jerry Lee Lewis
Hank Williams
Scat singing
31. 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
Ragtime
Duke Ellington
James Brown
Melody
32. A short musical passage
phrase
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Ballad
33. 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.
Hook
Phil Spector
Brian Wilson
Frank Sinatra
34. 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
Bob Dylan
Electric Guitar
Acoustic recording
35. 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
Form
The Rolling Stones
Bessie Smith
36. A recurrent rhythmical series
motive
cadence
Motown
Timbre
37. 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
Ethel Merman
The Beatles
Reverb
Producer
38. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Hook
The Rolling Stones
Diana Ross
Acoustic recording
39. 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
Nashville sound
Producer
Texture
Bessie Smith
40. 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.
Concept album
Boogie Woogie
Bridge
Form
41. 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.'
Syncopation
Bel canto
Brian Wilson
Jerry Lee Lewis
42. 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.
Bel canto
12-bar Blues
Arranger
Major/Minor
43. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Big Band
Concept album
Chorus
The Beatles
44. The standard form of a blues song: a twelve-bar structure made up of three phrases of four bars each; a basic three-chord pattern; and a three-line AAB text.
12-bar Blues
Motown
Cole Porter
Texture
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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Elvis Presley
Irving Berlin
46. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Berry Gordy - Jr.
12-bar Blues
Ragtime
47. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Countrypolitan
Lyrics
Acoustic recording
AABA form
48. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
The Supremes
Les Paul
Bluegrass
Refrain
49. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
The Supremes
Les Paul
The Rolling Stones
Nashville sound
50. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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