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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. '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.
Beat
Standards
Electronic recording
Tempo
2. 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
Banjo
Minstrel Show
ASCAP
Scott Joplin
3. 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
sound
Ethel Merman
12-bar Blues
Bluegrass
4. 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.
Buddy Holly
Classic blues
Ballad
Reverb
5. Nickname for a stretch of 28th Street in New York City where music publishers had their offices—a dense hive of small rooms with pianos where composers and 'song pluggers' produced and promoted popular songs. The term - which evoked the clanging soun
Aretha Franklin
Form
Tin Pan Alley
Hank Williams
6. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
'The twist'
Cakewalk
Timbre
7. 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.
Hook
Beat
Buddy Holly
Benny Goodman
8. 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
Louis Armstrong
cadence
Hank Williams
Beat
9. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Syncopation
Race Records
Major/Minor
Bessie Smith
10. 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.
Janis Joplin
Banjo
Bel canto
Ethel Merman
11. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Big Band
Chorus
Concept album
Dick Clark
12. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Concept album
Cover version
Strophic
Beat
13. Behind-the-scenes role at a record company. Can be responsible for booking time in the recording studio - hiring backup singers and instrumentalists - assisting with the engineering process - and imprinting the characteristic sound of the finished re
Nashville sound
Producer
AABA form
Refrain
14. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Strophic
Gene Autry
Glenn Miller
Acoustic recording
15. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
12-bar Blues
Paul Whiteman
Chorus
Herman Parker
16. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
ASCAP
sound
Bessie Smith
Rock 'n' Roll
17. 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
Polyphonic
Ray Charles
Lyrics
18. A recurrent rhythmical series
Tempo
Minstrel Show
Bessie Smith
cadence
19. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Les Paul
Ballad
sound
Beat
20. The words of a song.
Beat
Lyrics
Rock 'n' Roll
Chorus
21. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
12-bar Blues
Acoustic recording
Dick Clark
ASCAP
22. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Timbre
Sheet music
Cakewalk
Texture
23. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Sheet music
Texture
Beat
Cover version
24. 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
Nashville sound
'The twist'
Rockabilly
Electric Guitar
25. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
soul music
Syncopation
Form
The Rolling Stones
26. Motive - phrase - cadence
Les Paul
R&B
Cakewalk
Melody
27. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Minstrel Show
Ragtime
soul music
Dick Clark
28. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Herman Parker
Electric Guitar
Crooning
29. 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.
Big Band
Rockabilly
sound
Frank Sinatra
30. 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
Gene Autry
Beat
Tin Pan Alley
Berry Gordy - Jr.
31. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Polyphonic
Race Records
Bluegrass
Reverb
32. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Scott Joplin
Lyrics
Arranger
Tin Pan Alley
33. A person who writes the words for songs
Benny Goodman
Paul Whiteman
Lyricist
Reverb
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
Diana Ross
Tin Pan Alley
Ragtime
Rhythm
35. 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.
Ethel Merman
Polyphonic
Cover version
The Supremes
36. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Hook
Crooning
Electric Guitar
Sheet music
37. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Gene Autry
Electronic recording
Cole Porter
Bel canto
38. 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.
Standards
Reverb
Bessie Smith
Beach Boys
39. 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) -
sound
Jerry Lee Lewis
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
40. Founder of Motown Records.
Banjo
Berry Gordy - Jr.
ASCAP
The Rolling Stones
41. A recurrent rhythmical series
Rockabilly
cadence
Patsy Cline
Glenn Miller
42. '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.
The Rolling Stones
Tempo
Dick Clark
Diana Ross
43. 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.
Bel canto
The Beatles
Bessie Smith
Janis Joplin
44. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
George Gershwin
Bob Dylan
Strophic
Jerry Lee Lewis
45. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
soul music
Lyrics
Jerry Lee Lewis
Cakewalk
46. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
cadence
ASCAP
Timbre
47. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Beat
Electric Guitar
Classic blues
Sheet music
48. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Brian Wilson
Ethel Merman
Chorus
Bridge
49. 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.
Elvis Presley
Tin Pan Alley
AABA form
Paul Whiteman
50. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Rockabilly
A cappella
Banjo
soul music