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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
ASCAP
Motown
Bob Dylan
Countrypolitan
2. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Bluegrass
Boogie Woogie
Ray Charles
Tin Pan Alley
3. 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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4. 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
soul music
Chorus
Lyrics
5. 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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6. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Les Paul
Syncopation
Countrypolitan
7. 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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
ASCAP
Minstrel Show
Concept album
8. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Race Records
Diana Ross
Irving Berlin
9. 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.
Janis Joplin
Strophic
Electronic recording
Frank Sinatra
10. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
ASCAP
Acoustic recording
Chorus
Phil Spector
11. 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
Reverb
Nashville sound
Cakewalk
Producer
12. 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.
Lyricist
Duke Ellington
Electric Guitar
The Supremes
13. 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
motive
Glenn Miller
Bob Dylan
Bessie Smith
14. 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
Cole Porter
Verse
The Beatles
Hank Williams
15. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Lyricist
Phil Spector
Ethel Merman
Strophic
16. 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
Louis Armstrong
Janis Joplin
Tin Pan Alley
Acoustic recording
17. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Countrypolitan
Hank Williams
Janis Joplin
18. 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.
phrase
Louis Armstrong
motive
Les Paul
19. 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.
Bluegrass
Louis Armstrong
Bluegrass
Frank Sinatra
20. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Ballad
Irving Berlin
Brian Wilson
Form
21. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Timbre
Strophic
Arranger
Payola
22. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Frank Sinatra
Paul Whiteman
Verse
Texture
23. 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
Les Paul
Classic blues
Tempo
Verse
24. 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
Countrypolitan
Cover version
Duke Ellington
Beach Boys
25. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Form
Bluegrass
Buddy Holly
Dick Clark
26. 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
Arranger
Minstrel Show
Frank Sinatra
27. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Ragtime
Blues
Electronic recording
Chuck Berry
28. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Acoustic recording
ASCAP
Chorus
29. 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
Acoustic recording
The Supremes
Arranger
Gene Autry
30. 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.
Banjo
Janis Joplin
Gene Autry
AABA form
31. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Buddy Holly
Syncopation
Bob Dylan
Glenn Miller
32. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Chuck Berry
The Supremes
George Gershwin
Diana Ross
33. 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.
Irving Berlin
Nashville sound
Rock 'n' Roll
AABA form
34. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
soul music
Standards
Motown
Tempo
35. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Banjo
Frank Sinatra
Janis Joplin
36. 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.
'The twist'
Bel canto
Louis Armstrong
Classic blues
37. 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.
Cover version
Electronic recording
Buddy Holly
Harmony
38. 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.
Benny Goodman
Reverb
Glenn Miller
Cover version
39. 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.
Form
Bridge
Cover version
Rhythm
40. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
The Rolling Stones
Benny Goodman
Disc Jockeys
Louis Armstrong
41. A recurrent rhythmical series
Cole Porter
cadence
Louis Armstrong
Big Band
42. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Bessie Smith
Cover version
Scott Joplin
43. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Buddy Holly
Form
Scott Joplin
Jerry Lee Lewis
44. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Glenn Miller
Melody
Scott Joplin
Big Band
45. 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).
Herman Parker
Syncopation
Ballad
Verse
46. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Aretha Franklin
AABA form
Payola
47. '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.
Phil Spector
Banjo
Tempo
Beat
48. 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
Cole Porter
Ballad
Elvis Presley
Janis Joplin
49. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
'The twist'
Glenn Miller
soul music
Bob Dylan
50. 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
Cole Porter
Hank Williams
motive
Concept album