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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. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Ray Charles
Disc Jockeys
Motown
Cakewalk
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.
Irving Berlin
Banjo
sound
Paul Whiteman
3. Beat - meter - syncopation
Bob Dylan
Electric Guitar
A cappella
Rhythm
4. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Timbre
Diana Ross
A cappella
Chorus
5. 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
The Beatles
Bluegrass
Elvis Presley
'The twist'
6. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
12-bar Blues
A cappella
Texture
The Beatles
7. 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
Cakewalk
Banjo
Melody
Herman Parker
8. 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
Crooning
Hank Williams
ASCAP
Chorus
9. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
ASCAP
Beat
Scat singing
Rhythm
10. 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
Major/Minor
Disc Jockeys
Paul Whiteman
11. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Big Band
Tin Pan Alley
12. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Nashville sound
Hook
Lyricist
'The twist'
13. African American composer and pianist; the best-known composer of ragtime music. Between 1895 and 1915 - Joplin composed many of the classics of the ragtime repertoire and helped popularize the style through his piano arrangements - published as shee
cadence
Nashville sound
Scott Joplin
Minstrel Show
14. 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
urban folk
The Beatles
Gene Autry
Hook
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.
soul music
ASCAP
Payola
A cappella
16. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Texture
Scat singing
Refrain
Producer
17. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Harmony
Scott Joplin
Ballad
18. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
James Brown
George Gershwin
sound
Disc Jockeys
19. 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
Payola
Ray Charles
12-bar Blues
Major/Minor
20. 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) -
cadence
George Gershwin
Melody
Ray Charles
21. 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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22. 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.
Diana Ross
Buddy Holly
Blues
Reverb
23. 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) -
Refrain
George Gershwin
Major/Minor
Timbre
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.
'The twist'
Bob Dylan
Rockabilly
The Supremes
25. 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.
R&B
AABA form
Rockabilly
The Supremes
26. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Countrypolitan
Dick Clark
sound
Glenn Miller
27. 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.
Payola
Herman Parker
Tempo
motive
28. 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
Motown
Ragtime
Acoustic recording
The Beatles
29. A short musical passage
Bob Dylan
Tempo
Bridge
phrase
30. 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.
Syncopation
The Supremes
Race Records
Paul Whiteman
31. 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.
Refrain
'The twist'
Verse
Bel canto
32. 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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33. 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
Strophic
Acoustic recording
Ragtime
12-bar Blues
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.
Form
Tin Pan Alley
Glenn Miller
Aretha Franklin
35. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Bel canto
Bel canto
Rock 'n' Roll
Beat
36. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
'The twist'
Strophic
Crooning
37. 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
The Beatles
Louis Armstrong
Blues
Beat
38. 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.
Standards
Boogie Woogie
Syncopation
Scat singing
39. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
soul music
Acoustic recording
George Gershwin
A cappella
40. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Texture
Ballad
Ray Charles
41. 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
Major/Minor
Paul Whiteman
Louis Armstrong
Concept album
42. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Chorus
Irving Berlin
Acoustic recording
43. 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
Chuck Berry
Timbre
Beach Boys
soul music
44. 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.'
Irving Berlin
Beach Boys
Dick Clark
Cole Porter
45. Urban folk singer and songwriter; he took his stage name from his favorite poet - Dylan Thomas. His songs include hits such as 'Blowin' in the Wind -' 'Mr. Tambourine Man -' and 'Like a Rolling Stone.'
Janis Joplin
Bob Dylan
Timbre
Herman Parker
46. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
George Gershwin
Disc Jockeys
Ray Charles
Electronic recording
47. 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.
Lyrics
cadence
Bridge
Glenn Miller
48. '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.
Lyricist
Minstrel Show
Tempo
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
'The twist'
Bridge
Texture
Verse
50. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Sheet music
Diana Ross
'The twist'
Harmony