SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Music
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
performing-arts
,
music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Brian Wilson
Acoustic recording
Countrypolitan
Harmony
2. 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.'
Bob Dylan
Frank Sinatra
Chorus
Banjo
3. 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
cadence
Bluegrass
Chorus
Reverb
4. 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.
ASCAP
Reverb
Irving Berlin
AABA form
5. 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
Aretha Franklin
Janis Joplin
The Supremes
Minstrel Show
6. 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
Bridge
Blues
Melody
Patsy Cline
7. 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
R&B
Ballad
Beach Boys
Gene Autry
8. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Jerry Lee Lewis
Strophic
Tempo
Reverb
9. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Concept album
George Gershwin
Les Paul
Cole Porter
10. 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.'
Producer
Classic blues
Brian Wilson
Buddy Holly
11. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
'The twist'
Race Records
Ray Charles
Chorus
12. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Glenn Miller
motive
Major/Minor
Harmony
13. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Bel canto
Syncopation
Patsy Cline
Buddy Holly
14. A person who writes the words for songs
Hook
Reverb
Cakewalk
Lyricist
15. 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
Cakewalk
Payola
Irving Berlin
Boogie Woogie
16. 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
Elvis Presley
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Phil Spector
17. 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
R&B
soul music
Duke Ellington
Tempo
18. 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.
Irving Berlin
Electric Guitar
Beat
12-bar Blues
19. 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
Sheet music
Ethel Merman
Beat
Tin Pan Alley
20. Motive - phrase - cadence
Harmony
Melody
Hank Williams
Countrypolitan
21. 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).
Texture
Irving Berlin
Lyricist
Ballad
22. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Texture
Strophic
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Rolling Stones
23. 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
Janis Joplin
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Rock 'n' Roll
Producer
24. 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.
A cappella
phrase
Cover version
Bessie Smith
25. Chord - consonance - dissonance
cadence
Lyricist
Melody
Harmony
26. 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
'The twist'
Blues
motive
Bluegrass
27. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Chuck Berry
Chorus
Timbre
Electric Guitar
28. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Tin Pan Alley
Race Records
Beach Boys
Tin Pan Alley
29. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Payola
Reverb
Bob Dylan
30. 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.
Dick Clark
cadence
Cover version
AABA form
31. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Les Paul
Electronic recording
Ballad
32. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Syncopation
Paul Whiteman
Cover version
33. 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
Gene Autry
Irving Berlin
Electronic recording
Payola
34. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Diana Ross
Texture
Reverb
Big Band
35. 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
Scott Joplin
Janis Joplin
Louis Armstrong
motive
36. 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
R&B
Strophic
Melody
Rock 'n' Roll
37. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Major/Minor
Polyphonic
Reverb
38. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
urban folk
Blues
James Brown
Ray Charles
39. 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
Major/Minor
Timbre
40. 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
Form
Bluegrass
Boogie Woogie
41. '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.
soul music
Big Band
Melody
Aretha Franklin
42. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Blues
Brian Wilson
Race Records
43. 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.
'The twist'
The Supremes
Jerry Lee Lewis
Polyphonic
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
Blues
Rhythm
Duke Ellington
45. 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
phrase
Beat
Banjo
46. 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
Ray Charles
Rockabilly
Benny Goodman
Texture
47. 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
Chuck Berry
Janis Joplin
Bessie Smith
48. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Crooning
Strophic
Big Band
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
49. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Ballad
Strophic
Concept album
Jerry Lee Lewis
50. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Glenn Miller
Hook
Timbre