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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Concept album
Rock 'n' Roll
Herman Parker
Concept album
2. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Brian Wilson
Rhythm
Harmony
The Supremes
3. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Rhythm
George Gershwin
Form
Beat
4. 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.
Scott Joplin
Rockabilly
phrase
Standards
5. 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
Chuck Berry
soul music
Bel canto
Major/Minor
6. 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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Arranger
Concept album
AABA form
7. 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
Hank Williams
Ethel Merman
Electric Guitar
A cappella
8. 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.
Electric Guitar
Bessie Smith
The Rolling Stones
Buddy Holly
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.'
Electronic recording
Producer
Electronic recording
Brian Wilson
10. 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
Scat singing
ASCAP
Les Paul
Cakewalk
11. 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.
Bluegrass
Cole Porter
Scat singing
Reverb
12. 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.
Gene Autry
Ethel Merman
Bel canto
Glenn Miller
13. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Buddy Holly
Chuck Berry
motive
sound
14. 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.
Chorus
Bridge
Big Band
The Beatles
15. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Hook
Sheet music
Banjo
Irving Berlin
16. 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
Strophic
Electronic recording
Ray Charles
17. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman
Elvis Presley
Big Band
18. 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.
Cakewalk
Scat singing
ASCAP
cadence
19. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Polyphonic
Ballad
Bluegrass
Race Records
20. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
12-bar Blues
Classic blues
Timbre
21. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
22. A short musical passage
Paul Whiteman
phrase
Tempo
Crooning
23. 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
Duke Ellington
Ragtime
Tin Pan Alley
Producer
24. 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
Blues
Elvis Presley
Classic blues
Berry Gordy - Jr.
25. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Elvis Presley
'The twist'
The Supremes
26. 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
Scott Joplin
The Supremes
Producer
Reverb
27. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
The Rolling Stones
Countrypolitan
Crooning
Gene Autry
28. Beat - meter - syncopation
Ray Charles
Rhythm
Sheet music
Jerry Lee Lewis
29. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Minstrel Show
Chuck Berry
Refrain
Chuck Berry
30. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Lyrics
Disc Jockeys
Form
Big Band
31. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Melody
Minstrel Show
Big Band
Lyrics
32. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
The Supremes
Patsy Cline
motive
Hank Williams
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
Tempo
Reverb
Scat singing
Gene Autry
34. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
A cappella
Diana Ross
Scat singing
Disc Jockeys
35. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Motown
Tempo
soul music
Payola
36. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Beat
Bridge
sound
37. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
The Beatles
Brian Wilson
Sheet music
Acoustic recording
38. 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
Ethel Merman
Jerry Lee Lewis
Tempo
39. 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
Aretha Franklin
Electric Guitar
Standards
Bessie Smith
40. 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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41. 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.'
Lyrics
Arranger
Brian Wilson
Bessie Smith
42. 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
Bessie Smith
Tempo
Berry Gordy - Jr.
43. 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.
Bridge
'The twist'
Payola
Melody
44. 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
Janis Joplin
Form
Sheet music
45. 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
Verse
Boogie Woogie
Sheet music
12-bar Blues
46. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Diana Ross
Cakewalk
Polyphonic
Bridge
47. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Major/Minor
Hook
Payola
Reverb
48. Founder of Motown Records.
Rockabilly
Berry Gordy - Jr.
The Rolling Stones
Patsy Cline
49. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Buddy Holly
Race Records
Payola
50. '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.
Cakewalk
Irving Berlin
Bessie Smith
Tempo