SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Music
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
performing-arts
,
music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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.
Banjo
Glenn Miller
Duke Ellington
Jerry Lee Lewis
2. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Arranger
Bob Dylan
A cappella
James Brown
3. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Louis Armstrong
Chorus
sound
4. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Texture
Dick Clark
Patsy Cline
5. 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.
Standards
The Rolling Stones
Syncopation
Reverb
6. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Dick Clark
ASCAP
James Brown
7. 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.
Duke Ellington
Janis Joplin
A cappella
Aretha Franklin
8. The standard form of a blues song: a twelve-bar structure made up of three phrases of four bars each; a basic three-chord pattern; and a three-line AAB text.
Electronic recording
12-bar Blues
Buddy Holly
Les Paul
9. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Texture
Arranger
10. Bandleader for the most successful dance orchestra of the 1920s. He billed himself as the 'King of Jazz -' widened the market for jazz-based dance music - and paved the way for the Swing Era.
Verse
Paul Whiteman
Concept album
'The twist'
11. 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.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
12. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Reverb
Scat singing
Lyrics
Janis Joplin
13. 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
Frank Sinatra
Bridge
Refrain
14. 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.'
Bob Dylan
Ragtime
Buddy Holly
Ragtime
15. 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.
Payola
Phil Spector
sound
ASCAP
16. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Form
AABA form
Hook
Acoustic recording
17. 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
Strophic
Aretha Franklin
Bluegrass
Irving Berlin
18. African American musical genre that emerged after World War II. Consisted of a loose cluster of styles derived from black musical traditions - characterized by energetic and hard-swinging rhythms. At first performed exclusively by black musicians for
R&B
Bluegrass
ASCAP
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
19. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Duke Ellington
Beat
12-bar Blues
Ethel Merman
20. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
George Gershwin
cadence
R&B
21. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
R&B
Patsy Cline
Harmony
22. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
Cakewalk
Les Paul
Reverb
23. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Cole Porter
Ethel Merman
Louis Armstrong
Harmony
24. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Polyphonic
Timbre
Louis Armstrong
Bridge
25. Generally recognized as the most productive - varied - and creative of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters. His professional songwriting career started before World War I and continued into the 1960s. His most famous songs include 'Alexander's Ragtime Band
Irving Berlin
A cappella
Diana Ross
Diana Ross
26. The words of a song.
Louis Armstrong
Cover version
Bridge
Lyrics
27. 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.'
Ethel Merman
Strophic
Harmony
Beach Boys
28. '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.
ASCAP
Rock 'n' Roll
Rockabilly
Tempo
29. African American musical genre that emerged after World War II. Consisted of a loose cluster of styles derived from black musical traditions - characterized by energetic and hard-swinging rhythms. At first performed exclusively by black musicians for
The Rolling Stones
Payola
R&B
urban folk
30. 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
R&B
James Brown
Ethel Merman
31. 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
Glenn Miller
cadence
Producer
Phil Spector
32. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Diana Ross
Rhythm
Sheet music
Brian Wilson
33. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Standards
Syncopation
Duke Ellington
Crooning
34. 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.
Polyphonic
Disc Jockeys
The Supremes
Scat singing
35. 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
Electronic recording
Beat
Ray Charles
36. 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
Arranger
Strophic
Rhythm
37. 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
Irving Berlin
Brian Wilson
Ragtime
Disc Jockeys
38. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
R&B
Strophic
Beach Boys
39. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Big Band
Tempo
Scat singing
Brian Wilson
40. 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.
Standards
motive
Strophic
Bluegrass
41. 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.
The Rolling Stones
Standards
Janis Joplin
Minstrel Show
42. Motive - phrase - cadence
Hook
Countrypolitan
Melody
Bel canto
43. 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.
Big Band
Motown
Arranger
The Supremes
44. 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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Refrain
Les Paul
cadence
45. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Chuck Berry
Bel canto
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
46. 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
Sheet music
Big Band
Janis Joplin
47. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
Duke Ellington
Aretha Franklin
Rhythm
48. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bessie Smith
soul music
Reverb
49. 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.
Harmony
Cover version
Reverb
Bob Dylan
50. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Chorus
Race Records
Hook
Ragtime