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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. '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.
Strophic
Brian Wilson
Aretha Franklin
Countrypolitan
2. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Form
Bridge
Irving Berlin
Race Records
3. A short musical passage
Elvis Presley
Lyrics
Jerry Lee Lewis
phrase
4. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Cakewalk
Scat singing
Disc Jockeys
Tempo
5. 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 Supremes
cadence
Texture
Scat singing
6. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Strophic
Concept album
Glenn Miller
Electronic recording
7. 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
The Rolling Stones
Phil Spector
Tempo
8. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Nashville sound
Payola
Melody
Refrain
9. 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
Ethel Merman
Refrain
Payola
10. 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) -
motive
Bel canto
Crooning
George Gershwin
11. 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
Ethel Merman
Ragtime
Bluegrass
Electric Guitar
12. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Hook
Ray Charles
Boogie Woogie
Minstrel Show
13. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Rhythm
Syncopation
Major/Minor
14. 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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15. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
motive
Banjo
Gene Autry
16. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
phrase
sound
Paul Whiteman
Harmony
17. 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.
Electronic recording
Janis Joplin
Hook
Paul Whiteman
18. 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.
Phil Spector
Ragtime
The Supremes
Berry Gordy - Jr.
19. 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
Arranger
Aretha Franklin
Payola
20. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Rock 'n' Roll
Boogie Woogie
Tin Pan Alley
Concept album
21. 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.
Phil Spector
Rhythm
Tempo
Lyricist
22. 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.
Herman Parker
Standards
Arranger
12-bar Blues
23. 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.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Buddy Holly
Tin Pan Alley
phrase
24. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Paul Whiteman
The Rolling Stones
Diana Ross
Harmony
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.
Major/Minor
AABA form
Verse
Harmony
26. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Cakewalk
Disc Jockeys
A cappella
Jerry Lee Lewis
27. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
urban folk
12-bar Blues
Countrypolitan
Texture
28. 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.
12-bar Blues
Cover version
Bridge
Beach Boys
29. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Ethel Merman
Electronic recording
Herman Parker
30. 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
Nashville sound
Ragtime
Les Paul
Verse
31. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Payola
Duke Ellington
Big Band
32. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
A cappella
Dick Clark
Irving Berlin
Jerry Lee Lewis
33. 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
Lyricist
Nashville sound
Major/Minor
Classic blues
34. 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
Brian Wilson
R&B
James Brown
35. 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
Ethel Merman
Melody
Ragtime
Phil Spector
36. 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
Beat
Blues
Bob Dylan
Gene Autry
37. 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.
Electronic recording
phrase
Janis Joplin
Bridge
38. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Minstrel Show
Reverb
sound
Crooning
39. A guitarist and inventor - designed his own eight-track tape recorder and began in 1948 to release a series of popular recordings featuring his own playing - overdubbed to sound like an ensemble of six or more guitars.
Les Paul
R&B
Irving Berlin
Minstrel Show
40. 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.'
Gene Autry
Electronic recording
Melody
Beach Boys
41. 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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42. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Tempo
Lyrics
Scat singing
Beat
43. '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.
Banjo
Gene Autry
Aretha Franklin
Sheet music
44. 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
Dick Clark
Banjo
Tin Pan Alley
Diana Ross
45. 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
Motown
Gene Autry
Bluegrass
Scott Joplin
46. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
Arranger
Syncopation
Lyricist
47. 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
Producer
Form
Refrain
Beach Boys
48. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Bessie Smith
Classic blues
Lyrics
A cappella
49. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Countrypolitan
Frank Sinatra
Strophic
Arranger
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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