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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. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
R&B
Ethel Merman
Gene Autry
Motown
2. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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3. 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
12-bar Blues
Patsy Cline
Boogie Woogie
Bridge
4. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Hank Williams
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley
5. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
A cappella
Lyrics
James Brown
Timbre
6. 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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7. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Ballad
Elvis Presley
soul music
8. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Classic blues
Janis Joplin
A cappella
Ray Charles
9. 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.'
Big Band
motive
Aretha Franklin
Bob Dylan
10. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Big Band
Melody
Arranger
11. 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.
Polyphonic
A cappella
Rockabilly
Ray Charles
12. 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
Melody
Elvis Presley
James Brown
Chuck Berry
13. 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.
Banjo
Buddy Holly
Les Paul
Cole Porter
14. 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
James Brown
A cappella
Ballad
15. Chord - consonance - dissonance
cadence
Harmony
Diana Ross
Frank Sinatra
16. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Banjo
Ballad
Frank Sinatra
Dick Clark
17. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Phil Spector
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Cakewalk
Sheet music
18. '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.
Herman Parker
urban folk
Paul Whiteman
Tempo
19. 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.
Glenn Miller
Standards
James Brown
Minstrel Show
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.'
Gene Autry
Brian Wilson
Ragtime
Lyrics
21. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Irving Berlin
Ray Charles
Payola
Polyphonic
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
Diana Ross
Bluegrass
Hank Williams
Electric Guitar
23. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beach Boys
Beat
A cappella
Janis Joplin
24. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Blues
Countrypolitan
Syncopation
25. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Duke Ellington
The Beatles
Strophic
motive
26. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Chuck Berry
The Beatles
Strophic
27. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
George Gershwin
urban folk
Hook
motive
28. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Rock 'n' Roll
Acoustic recording
Les Paul
urban folk
29. 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
Chuck Berry
Big Band
Diana Ross
Patsy Cline
30. 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.
Phil Spector
Duke Ellington
Producer
AABA form
31. '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.
Lyrics
Louis Armstrong
Tempo
Classic blues
32. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
Hook
Bob Dylan
Bridge
33. 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
Lyrics
Disc Jockeys
Herman Parker
Bluegrass
34. 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
Bessie Smith
Les Paul
Duke Ellington
ASCAP
35. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Strophic
Race Records
Verse
Refrain
36. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
motive
Melody
Minstrel Show
37. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Countrypolitan
Gene Autry
Payola
Paul Whiteman
38. 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.
Ethel Merman
Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Glenn Miller
39. 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.
Major/Minor
Harmony
Nashville sound
Bel canto
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.
Banjo
Arranger
Rock 'n' Roll
Sheet music
41. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Ragtime
Ray Charles
Sheet music
Cakewalk
42. 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
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Frank Sinatra
Concept album
43. 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.
Minstrel Show
cadence
Reverb
Crooning
44. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Bessie Smith
Harmony
Ray Charles
Boogie Woogie
45. 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
Payola
Irving Berlin
sound
46. 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.'
Acoustic recording
Beach Boys
Disc Jockeys
urban folk
47. 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.
Chorus
sound
Janis Joplin
Hank Williams
48. 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
Duke Ellington
Brian Wilson
Bluegrass
49. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Banjo
The Supremes
Louis Armstrong
50. 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.
Chuck Berry
12-bar Blues
Rockabilly
Bessie Smith