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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. 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
Crooning
Major/Minor
Big Band
Phil Spector
2. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Brian Wilson
soul music
Phil Spector
Polyphonic
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
Janis Joplin
Major/Minor
Tempo
Hook
4. 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) -
R&B
Rock 'n' Roll
George Gershwin
Herman Parker
5. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Bridge
Dick Clark
'The twist'
Producer
6. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Reverb
Irving Berlin
Strophic
Concept album
7. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Diana Ross
motive
Phil Spector
Gene Autry
8. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Race Records
ASCAP
AABA form
Standards
9. 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
Banjo
Rhythm
phrase
Race Records
10. Beat - meter - syncopation
Hank Williams
Crooning
Form
Rhythm
11. 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.
Reverb
Aretha Franklin
Bridge
ASCAP
12. 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
Bridge
Verse
Benny Goodman
13. 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
Arranger
Polyphonic
Tin Pan Alley
Irving Berlin
14. '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.
Brian Wilson
Tempo
Big Band
Aretha Franklin
15. '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.
Strophic
Melody
Arranger
Aretha Franklin
16. 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.'
Beach Boys
Ray Charles
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Texture
17. 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
'The twist'
Motown
Harmony
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.
Ballad
Standards
Herman Parker
Louis Armstrong
19. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Buddy Holly
Beat
The Rolling Stones
20. 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
Bel canto
Scat singing
R&B
21. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Race Records
Rock 'n' Roll
Countrypolitan
Elvis Presley
22. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
23. Founder of Motown Records.
Bessie Smith
Payola
Tempo
Berry Gordy - Jr.
24. 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.
Form
Verse
Les Paul
Elvis Presley
25. 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.
Glenn Miller
James Brown
Big Band
Crooning
26. 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.
27. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
ASCAP
Brian Wilson
sound
Patsy Cline
28. 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
ASCAP
soul music
Bridge
Chuck Berry
29. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Major/Minor
Big Band
Crooning
Motown
30. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
The Rolling Stones
Dick Clark
motive
Major/Minor
31. 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
Hook
Reverb
Verse
Glenn Miller
32. 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
Standards
Duke Ellington
Big Band
Benny Goodman
33. A short musical passage
Duke Ellington
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
phrase
Paul Whiteman
34. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Patsy Cline
A cappella
Ray Charles
Nashville sound
35. 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
Form
sound
Disc Jockeys
Hank Williams
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.
37. 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
12-bar Blues
Les Paul
Scott Joplin
Polyphonic
38. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
Major/Minor
Verse
Disc Jockeys
39. 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.
Crooning
R&B
Phil Spector
Frank Sinatra
40. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Cole Porter
Frank Sinatra
Nashville sound
41. 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
Crooning
Disc Jockeys
Verse
Acoustic recording
42. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Hank Williams
Countrypolitan
cadence
43. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Reverb
Major/Minor
Polyphonic
Bessie Smith
44. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Chuck Berry
Tin Pan Alley
Race Records
motive
45. 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
R&B
Ray Charles
Polyphonic
AABA form
46. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
'The twist'
Hank Williams
Sheet music
47. 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
ASCAP
Reverb
phrase
48. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
AABA form
Bridge
Ray Charles
Bob Dylan
49. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Harmony
Phil Spector
Payola
Crooning
50. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Minstrel Show
Dick Clark
Acoustic recording
Glenn Miller