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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. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
R&B
A cappella
Harmony
Frank Sinatra
2. 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
Elvis Presley
Benny Goodman
Hank Williams
Syncopation
3. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Chorus
Disc Jockeys
soul music
4. 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
Refrain
Janis Joplin
ASCAP
5. 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).
Form
Ballad
Bob Dylan
Buddy Holly
6. Four- or five-stringed instrument with a membrane stretched over a wooden or metal hoop that is strummed or plucked. It was developed by slave musicians from African prototypes during the early colonial period. The banjo was used in the music of the
Tin Pan Alley
Frank Sinatra
Banjo
Acoustic recording
7. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Producer
Arranger
Duke Ellington
Form
8. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Cole Porter
Chuck Berry
Form
Scott Joplin
9. 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
Cover version
Tin Pan Alley
Irving Berlin
Ray Charles
10. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Frank Sinatra
Hook
Scat singing
11. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Dick Clark
The Beatles
Rock 'n' Roll
12. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
Bridge
Refrain
Minstrel Show
Bel canto
13. 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
AABA form
Motown
Electronic recording
14. 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
Verse
Dick Clark
Minstrel Show
Blues
15. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Cole Porter
Crooning
Hook
Countrypolitan
16. 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
Paul Whiteman
Major/Minor
Benny Goodman
17. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Paul Whiteman
Form
Patsy Cline
18. 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.
Timbre
Standards
Acoustic recording
Tin Pan Alley
19. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Lyrics
Disc Jockeys
Duke Ellington
Strophic
20. 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.'
Herman Parker
Buddy Holly
Tin Pan Alley
Brian Wilson
21. 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
Chuck Berry
12-bar Blues
Scott Joplin
22. 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.
Rockabilly
phrase
George Gershwin
Electric Guitar
23. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Electric Guitar
Ray Charles
cadence
Cover version
24. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Chuck Berry
ASCAP
Major/Minor
25. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
'The twist'
Chorus
Disc Jockeys
Producer
26. 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.
Refrain
ASCAP
Rhythm
Frank Sinatra
27. 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.
Producer
Scat singing
Buddy Holly
Polyphonic
28. A guitar whose sound comes chiefly from electro-magnetic amplification The pioneer of electric blues guitar was Aaron T-Bone Walker - whose urban blues recordings just after World War II were extremely popular - Les Paul created
Electric Guitar
Crooning
motive
Chorus
29. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Rhythm
Elvis Presley
phrase
Arranger
30. 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.'
Tin Pan Alley
Beach Boys
Ethel Merman
Big Band
31. 'The Queen of Soul -' she began singing gospel music at an early age and had several hit records with Atlantic - including 'Respect' in 1967 and 'Think' in 1968.
Big Band
Electric Guitar
The Beatles
Aretha Franklin
32. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
R&B
Sheet music
Form
33. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Patsy Cline
George Gershwin
Chorus
Bessie Smith
34. 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
Timbre
Electric Guitar
Phil Spector
Ragtime
35. Chord - consonance - dissonance
12-bar Blues
Producer
soul music
Harmony
36. 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.
Gene Autry
Buddy Holly
Syncopation
Reverb
37. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Sheet music
Patsy Cline
12-bar Blues
Cole Porter
38. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Janis Joplin
Benny Goodman
Payola
Bessie Smith
39. 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
Duke Ellington
Gene Autry
Verse
Cover version
40. 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.
Rockabilly
R&B
Polyphonic
urban folk
41. 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
Janis Joplin
AABA form
phrase
Louis Armstrong
42. 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
Payola
Gene Autry
Form
43. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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44. 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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45. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Janis Joplin
Bluegrass
Frank Sinatra
46. 'The Queen of Soul -' she began singing gospel music at an early age and had several hit records with Atlantic - including 'Respect' in 1967 and 'Think' in 1968.
The Beatles
Glenn Miller
Dick Clark
Aretha Franklin
47. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Boogie Woogie
Big Band
Paul Whiteman
The Rolling Stones
48. A recurrent rhythmical series
Ethel Merman
cadence
phrase
Beat
49. A short musical passage
phrase
Classic blues
Verse
Rockabilly
50. 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
Brian Wilson
Paul Whiteman
Scott Joplin
Blues