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Music
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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2. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Arranger
phrase
Patsy Cline
The Rolling Stones
3. 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
phrase
Benny Goodman
Janis Joplin
Major/Minor
4. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Beat
Irving Berlin
Phil Spector
Jerry Lee Lewis
5. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Texture
George Gershwin
Dick Clark
Beat
6. 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) -
Producer
Verse
Dick Clark
George Gershwin
7. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Classic blues
Crooning
Strophic
Countrypolitan
8. 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.
cadence
Sheet music
Paul Whiteman
Beach Boys
9. 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
cadence
Chuck Berry
Dick Clark
Major/Minor
10. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
12-bar Blues
Bluegrass
Jerry Lee Lewis
Dick Clark
11. 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.
R&B
Dick Clark
Jerry Lee Lewis
Les Paul
12. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
'The twist'
Les Paul
Frank Sinatra
sound
13. 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.
Phil Spector
Ethel Merman
Buddy Holly
12-bar Blues
14. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Hook
Payola
Classic blues
15. The 'Godfather of Soul.' He was known for his acrobatic physicality and remarkable charisma on stage. No other single musician has proven to be as influential on the sound and style of black music as James Brown.
R&B
The Rolling Stones
James Brown
Glenn Miller
16. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Chorus
The Beatles
Big Band
17. A short musical passage
Strophic
Dick Clark
Producer
phrase
18. 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.
Beat
Phil Spector
Bob Dylan
Verse
19. 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.
Motown
Glenn Miller
Cover version
Major/Minor
20. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Electronic recording
Hook
Reverb
Lyrics
21. 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.
Polyphonic
Standards
Chuck Berry
Frank Sinatra
22. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Syncopation
Buddy Holly
Ethel Merman
AABA form
23. 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
Bridge
A cappella
Scott Joplin
Ray Charles
24. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Form
Scat singing
Ray Charles
The Beatles
25. Rock group from Liverpool - England - who dominated American popular music during the mid-1960s and started the 'British Invasion.' The band included John Lennon and George Harrison on lead and rhythm guitars and vocals - Paul McCartney on bass and v
motive
Louis Armstrong
Producer
The Beatles
26. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
ASCAP
Motown
Dick Clark
Hook
27. 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
Chorus
Reverb
Sheet music
28. 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.
Bessie Smith
Phil Spector
Lyrics
Standards
29. 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
Minstrel Show
Frank Sinatra
Tempo
Verse
30. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Elvis Presley
Ray Charles
George Gershwin
Form
31. 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
Ragtime
Paul Whiteman
Bessie Smith
Rhythm
32. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Bluegrass
Chorus
Bridge
soul music
33. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Countrypolitan
R&B
Cole Porter
Melody
34. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Harmony
Gene Autry
Motown
35. Founder of Motown Records.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Duke Ellington
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Race Records
36. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Classic blues
Blues
Chuck Berry
Dick Clark
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.
Reverb
Concept album
Cover version
Arranger
38. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
urban folk
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Ethel Merman
Reverb
39. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Beach Boys
Motown
Chorus
Electronic recording
40. A recurrent rhythmical series
Louis Armstrong
cadence
Concept album
Form
41. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Duke Ellington
soul music
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Jerry Lee Lewis
42. 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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43. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Louis Armstrong
Race Records
Disc Jockeys
Strophic
44. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Les Paul
Diana Ross
Refrain
Scat singing
45. 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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46. 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
Ragtime
12-bar Blues
Major/Minor
Payola
47. 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.
Diana Ross
Brian Wilson
urban folk
Disc Jockeys
48. Beat - meter - syncopation
Chorus
Hook
Rhythm
Acoustic recording
49. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Form
Buddy Holly
The Beatles
Sheet music
50. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Chorus
Bob Dylan
Payola
Major/Minor