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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. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Major/Minor
Scat singing
Cole Porter
2. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Bessie Smith
AABA form
Sheet music
Acoustic recording
3. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Race Records
Banjo
Crooning
4. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Bob Dylan
Boogie Woogie
soul music
5. 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.
The Supremes
Beat
Syncopation
Jerry Lee Lewis
6. Generally recognized as the most productive - varied - and creative of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters. His professional songwriting career started before World War I and continued into the 1960s. His most famous songs include 'Alexander's Ragtime Band
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
The Rolling Stones
Irving Berlin
7. 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
Payola
Ragtime
12-bar Blues
8. 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.'
R&B
Brian Wilson
Disc Jockeys
The Rolling Stones
9. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Minstrel Show
Beat
Texture
Cover version
10. 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
Electronic recording
Elvis Presley
Gene Autry
Chuck Berry
11. '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.
Acoustic recording
Gene Autry
Aretha Franklin
Cover version
12. 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.
Tempo
Major/Minor
Rockabilly
Benny Goodman
13. 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
Ballad
Sheet music
'The twist'
14. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
sound
Race Records
Polyphonic
Glenn Miller
15. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Major/Minor
Ballad
R&B
Chorus
16. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Cover version
Duke Ellington
Form
Arranger
17. 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.
Disc Jockeys
Ragtime
Bel canto
12-bar Blues
18. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Herman Parker
Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic blues
Producer
19. 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
Strophic
Brian Wilson
12-bar Blues
20. A short musical passage
phrase
Standards
Phil Spector
Disc Jockeys
21. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Harmony
James Brown
Beach Boys
Ray Charles
22. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Disc Jockeys
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
soul music
Hook
23. 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
Standards
Tempo
Bluegrass
Hank Williams
24. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Form
Hook
Duke Ellington
25. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Minstrel Show
soul music
Ragtime
26. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Crooning
sound
Banjo
Big Band
27. 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
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Phil Spector
Jerry Lee Lewis
28. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Minstrel Show
Tempo
29. 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
Rhythm
Gene Autry
Irving Berlin
Verse
30. 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
ASCAP
George Gershwin
31. 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
Glenn Miller
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
32. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
A cappella
George Gershwin
James Brown
33. 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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34. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
George Gershwin
Tempo
Payola
Bel canto
35. Motive - phrase - cadence
Dick Clark
Melody
Tempo
The Beatles
36. 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.
Nashville sound
Herman Parker
The Rolling Stones
Buddy Holly
37. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Hank Williams
Ray Charles
Motown
Phil Spector
38. A musical genre that emerged in black communities of the Deep South-especially the region from the Mississippi Delta to East Texas-sometime around the end of the nineteenth century
Tin Pan Alley
Hank Williams
The Rolling Stones
Blues
39. 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.
Classic blues
Refrain
Cover version
Cole Porter
40. 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
Verse
12-bar Blues
Producer
Scat singing
41. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
sound
Standards
Electronic recording
Motown
42. 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.
12-bar Blues
Nashville sound
Louis Armstrong
'The twist'
43. 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.'
Bob Dylan
Aretha Franklin
Dick Clark
12-bar Blues
44. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Disc Jockeys
Texture
Scat singing
45. 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.
sound
Crooning
Buddy Holly
Paul Whiteman
46. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
R&B
Chorus
12-bar Blues
Paul Whiteman
47. 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.
urban folk
Sheet music
Bob Dylan
'The twist'
48. 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) -
Lyrics
soul music
George Gershwin
Lyricist
49. '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.
Bluegrass
Major/Minor
Aretha Franklin
sound
50. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
AABA form
Minstrel Show
Bessie Smith
Hook