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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. 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.
Classic blues
Verse
Beach Boys
The Supremes
2. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Gene Autry
Payola
Classic blues
Chorus
3. 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
Verse
Rock 'n' Roll
Bessie Smith
Aretha Franklin
4. 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
Tempo
Blues
Ethel Merman
Louis Armstrong
5. 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
Countrypolitan
The Supremes
AABA form
6. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
'The twist'
motive
The Beatles
7. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Phil Spector
ASCAP
phrase
Strophic
8. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Race Records
Aretha Franklin
Arranger
A cappella
9. Motive - phrase - cadence
Diana Ross
Melody
Form
Motown
10. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Rockabilly
R&B
Chuck Berry
11. 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.'
Classic blues
Bob Dylan
Beach Boys
Aretha Franklin
12. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
Minstrel Show
motive
Beat
13. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Bessie Smith
Big Band
Cole Porter
Frank Sinatra
14. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
12-bar Blues
Boogie Woogie
Timbre
Polyphonic
15. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Nashville sound
A cappella
Scott Joplin
16. 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
Ragtime
Producer
Irving Berlin
Boogie Woogie
17. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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18. 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
Phil Spector
A cappella
phrase
19. 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.
Scott Joplin
Melody
12-bar Blues
Scat singing
20. 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.
Chorus
Phil Spector
Herman Parker
Dick Clark
21. Founder of Motown Records.
Harmony
Form
Beat
Berry Gordy - Jr.
22. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Refrain
soul music
phrase
Blues
23. 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
Ragtime
Reverb
Buddy Holly
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
24. A short musical passage
Gene Autry
phrase
Blues
Big Band
25. A version of a previously recorded performance; often an adaptation of the original's style and sensibility - and usually aimed at cashing in on its success.
Cover version
Lyrics
Motown
Duke Ellington
26. 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
Chorus
Paul Whiteman
Les Paul
Banjo
27. 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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28. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Reverb
Patsy Cline
Race Records
Electric Guitar
29. 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.
Janis Joplin
Lyrics
Buddy Holly
Ray Charles
30. One of the most common structures that Tin Pan Alley composers used to organize their melodic and harmonic material. This structure would be found in the refrain of a verse-refrain song.
Payola
Duke Ellington
Texture
AABA form
31. A person who writes the words for songs
cadence
Lyricist
Reverb
Classic blues
32. 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
Hank Williams
Classic blues
Electronic recording
Scat singing
33. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Diana Ross
Disc Jockeys
Classic blues
Crooning
34. 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
Nashville sound
Benny Goodman
Paul Whiteman
Scott Joplin
35. 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
Cakewalk
Glenn Miller
Bessie Smith
36. 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
Cakewalk
Jerry Lee Lewis
Tin Pan Alley
Concept album
37. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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38. 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.
Crooning
Janis Joplin
Cole Porter
Boogie Woogie
39. A person who writes the words for songs
Producer
Chuck Berry
Cakewalk
Lyricist
40. '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.
Lyricist
Phil Spector
Tempo
Banjo
41. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Acoustic recording
Verse
Hook
Big Band
42. 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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43. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Janis Joplin
Motown
Timbre
Refrain
44. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Disc Jockeys
Herman Parker
Arranger
Harmony
45. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Blues
Reverb
Acoustic recording
Bob Dylan
46. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Banjo
Sheet music
Race Records
Cole Porter
47. 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.
Bob Dylan
Race Records
ASCAP
Patsy Cline
48. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Standards
The Rolling Stones
urban folk
Bridge
49. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Duke Ellington
Rhythm
AABA form
50. 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
Les Paul
Diana Ross
Gene Autry
Syncopation