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Music
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.
Elvis Presley
Payola
Major/Minor
Les Paul
2. 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.
Motown
Crooning
ASCAP
Concept album
3. Founder of Motown Records.
Frank Sinatra
Texture
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Phil Spector
4. 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.
The Supremes
Tempo
Hank Williams
James Brown
5. 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
Minstrel Show
Electric Guitar
Paul Whiteman
Payola
6. 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
Standards
Tin Pan Alley
Reverb
Major/Minor
7. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Major/Minor
Buddy Holly
Cakewalk
8. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Rhythm
Countrypolitan
Crooning
R&B
9. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
ASCAP
Electric Guitar
James Brown
10. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
Brian Wilson
Bridge
Louis Armstrong
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.
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12. 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.
Irving Berlin
Reverb
Form
James Brown
13. '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.
Tempo
Tin Pan Alley
Bluegrass
Elvis Presley
14. 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.
Verse
Glenn Miller
Bob Dylan
Bel canto
15. 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
Irving Berlin
Hank Williams
Jerry Lee Lewis
Chorus
16. 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.
Reverb
Sheet music
Banjo
urban folk
17. The words of a song.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
phrase
Chorus
Lyrics
18. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
Nashville sound
Electric Guitar
Paul Whiteman
Arranger
19. 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
Polyphonic
Rock 'n' Roll
Blues
Elvis Presley
20. 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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21. 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).
Countrypolitan
Beat
A cappella
Ballad
22. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
sound
Sheet music
Verse
23. 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
Cover version
Bridge
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Major/Minor
24. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
phrase
Louis Armstrong
Cover version
Texture
25. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
The Beatles
Countrypolitan
Minstrel Show
Nashville sound
26. 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
Scat singing
Race Records
Benny Goodman
Bluegrass
27. A recurrent rhythmical series
The Beatles
cadence
soul music
Dick Clark
28. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Electric Guitar
Beat
Ragtime
urban folk
29. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Beat
Concept album
Polyphonic
ASCAP
30. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Bessie Smith
Producer
Motown
31. 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) -
Syncopation
George Gershwin
Texture
Janis Joplin
32. 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.
Standards
urban folk
Electronic recording
Minstrel Show
33. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
ASCAP
Producer
sound
Aretha Franklin
34. A technique used by opera singers that emphasizes breath control - a fluid and relaxed voice - and the use of subtle variations in pitch and rhythmic phrasing for dramatic effect.
Scott Joplin
Lyricist
Paul Whiteman
Bel canto
35. 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.
Janis Joplin
Syncopation
The Supremes
Herman Parker
36. 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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37. 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
Classic blues
Glenn Miller
Irving Berlin
R&B
38. 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
Major/Minor
Hank Williams
Minstrel Show
Frank Sinatra
39. 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
'The twist'
Hank Williams
Boogie Woogie
Electric Guitar
40. 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
Bob Dylan
The Supremes
Les Paul
Cakewalk
41. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Disc Jockeys
Rhythm
Tin Pan Alley
Refrain
42. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Crooning
Scat singing
Beach Boys
Ray Charles
43. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
A cappella
Acoustic recording
Aretha Franklin
Motown
44. A short musical passage
phrase
Big Band
Rhythm
Janis Joplin
45. 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
Paul Whiteman
Hank Williams
Bridge
Syncopation
46. A person who writes the words for songs
Rock 'n' Roll
A cappella
Strophic
Lyricist
47. Beat - meter - syncopation
Cakewalk
Rhythm
Paul Whiteman
Bel canto
48. 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
Crooning
Elvis Presley
Beach Boys
Motown
49. Founder of Motown Records.
The Rolling Stones
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Arranger
ASCAP
50. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Cover version
Disc Jockeys
Benny Goodman
Beat