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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. 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.
Sheet music
Irving Berlin
Sheet music
The Supremes
2. 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
Electric Guitar
Bluegrass
Duke Ellington
Disc Jockeys
3. 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
Harmony
Cakewalk
Bel canto
Crooning
4. 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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5. 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
Refrain
Buddy Holly
Chuck Berry
6. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Concept album
Form
Hank Williams
Ballad
7. 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.
Form
Race Records
Strophic
Standards
8. Four- or five-stringed instrument with a membrane stretched over a wooden or metal hoop that is strummed or plucked. It was developed by slave musicians from African prototypes during the early colonial period. The banjo was used in the music of the
Glenn Miller
Cakewalk
Banjo
Classic blues
9. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Scat singing
Diana Ross
Minstrel Show
Sheet music
10. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Bluegrass
Berry Gordy - Jr.
The Rolling Stones
Texture
11. 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
Electric Guitar
Glenn Miller
Lyrics
12. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Bessie Smith
Rhythm
Bluegrass
Crooning
13. 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
ASCAP
Banjo
Cole Porter
14. 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.
Major/Minor
Phil Spector
Jerry Lee Lewis
Polyphonic
15. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Sheet music
Louis Armstrong
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Arranger
16. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Arranger
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Ray Charles
Louis Armstrong
17. 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
Les Paul
Boogie Woogie
Glenn Miller
Lyrics
18. 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.
Minstrel Show
Bridge
motive
Timbre
19. 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.
Strophic
Herman Parker
soul music
Race Records
20. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
Bridge
Ballad
James Brown
21. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
James Brown
Aretha Franklin
Hank Williams
22. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Blues
Chorus
Hook
23. 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
Tempo
Electric Guitar
Buddy Holly
Reverb
24. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Form
Jerry Lee Lewis
Gene Autry
Classic blues
25. 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.'
Patsy Cline
Beach Boys
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Louis Armstrong
26. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Electronic recording
Hank Williams
Beat
Ethel Merman
27. 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
12-bar Blues
Bessie Smith
Herman Parker
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
28. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Syncopation
Blues
Race Records
29. 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.
Bel canto
Arranger
ASCAP
Standards
30. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Electronic recording
Melody
Hank Williams
31. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Irving Berlin
Hook
Chuck Berry
Ballad
32. 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
Banjo
Bridge
Producer
phrase
33. 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.
Ballad
The Supremes
sound
Patsy Cline
34. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Herman Parker
Race Records
12-bar Blues
The Supremes
35. 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
Frank Sinatra
Paul Whiteman
Harmony
36. 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.
Glenn Miller
Buddy Holly
Electric Guitar
Ragtime
37. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Lyricist
Phil Spector
Chorus
12-bar Blues
38. 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).
Diana Ross
James Brown
Ballad
Chorus
39. Motive - phrase - cadence
Bob Dylan
Melody
phrase
Gene Autry
40. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Race Records
Paul Whiteman
A cappella
Ballad
41. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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42. 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
Janis Joplin
Polyphonic
Benny Goodman
Blues
43. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Refrain
Scat singing
Banjo
44. 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
cadence
12-bar Blues
ASCAP
Blues
45. Four- or five-stringed instrument with a membrane stretched over a wooden or metal hoop that is strummed or plucked. It was developed by slave musicians from African prototypes during the early colonial period. The banjo was used in the music of the
Tempo
Blues
Banjo
Payola
46. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Dick Clark
Form
motive
Motown
47. 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.'
Concept album
Beach Boys
Bluegrass
Herman Parker
48. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Janis Joplin
Ragtime
Countrypolitan
Crooning
49. Known as 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll -' the biggest star to come from the country side of the music world. Born in Tupelo - Mississippi - made his first recordings in Memphis at Sun Records - and later recorded for RCA and became a Hollywood film star
Elvis Presley
Producer
phrase
Arranger
50. A recurrent rhythmical series
Boogie Woogie
Refrain
cadence
Irving Berlin