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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. 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
Elvis Presley
Strophic
Louis Armstrong
Producer
2. 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
Beach Boys
Scott Joplin
R&B
Cover version
3. Style of folk music that grew in popularity in the burgeoning New York folk scene during the 1960s. It included artists such as Bob Dylan.
Polyphonic
12-bar Blues
urban folk
Verse
4. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Janis Joplin
Big Band
Countrypolitan
Payola
5. Clarinetist and popular band leader; known as the 'King of Swing.' His popularity and the success of his band helped establish the swing era in the early 1930s. He was the first white bandleader to hire black musicians in his band
Rhythm
Benny Goodman
Timbre
Acoustic recording
6. 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
'The twist'
Jerry Lee Lewis
Blues
Arranger
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
The Rolling Stones
motive
Hank Williams
James Brown
8. 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
Duke Ellington
Big Band
Refrain
Electric Guitar
9. 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.
Paul Whiteman
Jerry Lee Lewis
A cappella
Hook
10. 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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11. 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
Acoustic recording
Crooning
Aretha Franklin
12. 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
Scott Joplin
Boogie Woogie
Jerry Lee Lewis
Arranger
13. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Bel canto
Countrypolitan
Jerry Lee Lewis
Form
14. 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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15. 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.
Bridge
Paul Whiteman
12-bar Blues
Bob Dylan
16. 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).
Ballad
Diana Ross
Classic blues
Bob Dylan
17. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Motown
Hook
The Supremes
Harmony
18. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Texture
Jerry Lee Lewis
Chuck Berry
Crooning
19. 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) -
Melody
George Gershwin
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Payola
20. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Strophic
Payola
Syncopation
21. 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.
Ray Charles
Reverb
Ballad
Sheet music
22. 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
Bluegrass
Bridge
Banjo
Payola
23. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
The Rolling Stones
Tempo
urban folk
24. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Ethel Merman
Big Band
Jerry Lee Lewis
Strophic
25. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Dick Clark
Herman Parker
Syncopation
James Brown
26. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Refrain
Texture
Classic blues
Classic blues
27. 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
ASCAP
Hank Williams
Janis Joplin
28. 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
Standards
12-bar Blues
Crooning
29. 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.
R&B
soul music
Diana Ross
Standards
30. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Benny Goodman
Bessie Smith
motive
A cappella
31. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
12-bar Blues
Payola
Beat
Banjo
32. 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
Bel canto
Melody
Beach Boys
33. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Scat singing
Harmony
Beach Boys
Diana Ross
34. 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.
The Beatles
ASCAP
Herman Parker
The Supremes
35. 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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Frank Sinatra
Texture
urban folk
36. 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.
Classic blues
The Supremes
Bridge
Bessie Smith
37. 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
Nashville sound
Syncopation
Irving Berlin
Verse
38. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Bel canto
Jerry Lee Lewis
Concept album
soul music
39. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Scat singing
Timbre
Electronic recording
Boogie Woogie
40. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Benny Goodman
Dick Clark
Arranger
ASCAP
41. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Cole Porter
Rhythm
Scat singing
Jerry Lee Lewis
42. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Louis Armstrong
Les Paul
Rhythm
43. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Big Band
Electronic recording
Brian Wilson
Classic blues
44. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Beach Boys
Hank Williams
Cole Porter
Gene Autry
45. 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
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Aretha Franklin
46. 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.
Benny Goodman
Electronic recording
The Supremes
The Beatles
47. 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.
urban folk
Duke Ellington
Disc Jockeys
Cover version
48. '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.
Benny Goodman
Tempo
Sheet music
12-bar Blues
49. 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
A cappella
Reverb
Standards
R&B
50. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Les Paul
Chorus
Arranger
The Rolling Stones