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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. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Payola
motive
The Rolling Stones
Chuck Berry
2. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
Bluegrass
Motown
Diana Ross
3. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Lyrics
Hook
Ethel Merman
Boogie Woogie
4. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Producer
Buddy Holly
Standards
5. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Elvis Presley
Rock 'n' Roll
Concept album
Ray Charles
6. 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.
Phil Spector
Buddy Holly
'The twist'
Janis Joplin
7. 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
Cakewalk
Nashville sound
Lyrics
Electric Guitar
8. 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
Bessie Smith
Timbre
Producer
Bridge
9. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Bob Dylan
Scat singing
Dick Clark
AABA form
10. 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.
Harmony
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Verse
urban folk
11. 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.
Buddy Holly
Blues
Bridge
R&B
12. A short musical passage
phrase
Beach Boys
Melody
Aretha Franklin
13. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Brian Wilson
Ray Charles
Standards
Banjo
14. 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.
Buddy Holly
Bluegrass
Texture
cadence
15. A person who writes the words for songs
Frank Sinatra
Diana Ross
Lyricist
Major/Minor
16. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Acoustic recording
Timbre
Irving Berlin
Diana Ross
17. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
urban folk
A cappella
Big Band
AABA form
18. 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.'
Reverb
Verse
Elvis Presley
Bob Dylan
19. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Chorus
A cappella
Standards
12-bar Blues
20. 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.
Patsy Cline
Frank Sinatra
cadence
Melody
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).
Producer
Ray Charles
Electronic recording
Ballad
22. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Cole Porter
cadence
Arranger
soul music
23. 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.
Frank Sinatra
Glenn Miller
Hook
Rockabilly
24. 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
Reverb
Banjo
Louis Armstrong
Cole Porter
25. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
James Brown
Countrypolitan
Minstrel Show
Scott Joplin
26. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Herman Parker
Beat
Melody
Syncopation
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
Producer
Louis Armstrong
The Beatles
James Brown
28. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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29. 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
Dick Clark
Chuck Berry
Bluegrass
The Rolling Stones
30. Motive - phrase - cadence
Ballad
Melody
Ethel Merman
Scat singing
31. 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
Arranger
Ethel Merman
Ragtime
Chuck Berry
32. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Glenn Miller
Motown
Brian Wilson
Gene Autry
33. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Major/Minor
Minstrel Show
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
34. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
The Beatles
Disc Jockeys
35. 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
Crooning
motive
soul music
36. 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
Louis Armstrong
Motown
Acoustic recording
The Beatles
37. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bob Dylan
Cakewalk
38. 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
Lyrics
Chorus
Berry Gordy - Jr.
39. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Beatles
James Brown
40. 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
Elvis Presley
Patsy Cline
Benny Goodman
Ray Charles
41. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
ASCAP
Strophic
Glenn Miller
Sheet music
42. 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
ASCAP
Tin Pan Alley
motive
Major/Minor
43. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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44. 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) -
George Gershwin
Strophic
Classic blues
Rhythm
45. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Big Band
AABA form
motive
Diana Ross
46. Motive - phrase - cadence
Scott Joplin
Acoustic recording
Classic blues
Melody
47. 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
Beach Boys
Race Records
Tempo
48. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Tin Pan Alley
Refrain
Harmony
R&B
49. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
The Beatles
Benny Goodman
Big Band
50. 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
Bluegrass
Paul Whiteman
Rockabilly
Sheet music