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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Founder of Motown Records.
Minstrel Show
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Ethel Merman
Ballad
2. '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.
Frank Sinatra
Aretha Franklin
Melody
Reverb
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
The Beatles
Bessie Smith
Frank Sinatra
Timbre
4. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Rock 'n' Roll
Ray Charles
Strophic
Harmony
5. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Diana Ross
Texture
Sheet music
Concept album
6. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
urban folk
Jerry Lee Lewis
Form
soul music
7. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Melody
Concept album
Electric Guitar
Polyphonic
8. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
ASCAP
Ragtime
Irving Berlin
A cappella
9. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Big Band
Janis Joplin
Texture
Brian Wilson
10. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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11. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Timbre
Dick Clark
Louis Armstrong
Electronic recording
12. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Minstrel Show
Big Band
Hook
Major/Minor
13. 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
Duke Ellington
Electric Guitar
Cakewalk
R&B
14. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Buddy Holly
George Gershwin
15. 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
Reverb
Hank Williams
Producer
The Beatles
16. 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
Bluegrass
Ragtime
The Supremes
James Brown
17. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Les Paul
soul music
Cole Porter
R&B
18. Introduced as a commercial and marketing term in the mid-1950s for the purpose of identifying a new target audience for musical products. Encompassed a variety of styles and artists from R&B - country - and pop music.
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19. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Scott Joplin
Janis Joplin
Beach Boys
20. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
Patsy Cline
Banjo
Major/Minor
21. A recurrent rhythmical series
Les Paul
The Beatles
cadence
Strophic
22. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Bluegrass
Hook
Payola
Melody
23. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Producer
The Supremes
Frank Sinatra
24. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Les Paul
Dick Clark
Duke Ellington
Hook
25. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Chuck Berry
The Beatles
Texture
Motown
26. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Concept album
Crooning
Rockabilly
Texture
27. 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.
Nashville sound
Herman Parker
Concept album
Ballad
28. 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.
Hook
ASCAP
Race Records
Melody
29. 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
The Beatles
Cover version
Bessie Smith
Bluegrass
30. 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.
'The twist'
Cover version
The Supremes
Melody
31. 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
Beach Boys
Nashville sound
Boogie Woogie
12-bar Blues
32. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Classic blues
Chorus
Verse
cadence
33. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Race Records
Chuck Berry
Classic blues
Herman Parker
34. The B section of AABA song form found in the refrain of a Tin Pan Alley song. The bridge presents new material: a new melody - chord changes - and lyrics.
Bridge
Payola
Louis Armstrong
Janis Joplin
35. 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
Scat singing
Reverb
Cole Porter
36. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Jerry Lee Lewis
Duke Ellington
Bel canto
37. The words of a song.
Lyrics
sound
Blues
Phil Spector
38. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
motive
Rhythm
The Rolling Stones
Gene Autry
39. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Payola
The Supremes
Electric Guitar
40. 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
cadence
Tin Pan Alley
Strophic
Crooning
41. 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.
Acoustic recording
Paul Whiteman
12-bar Blues
Rock 'n' Roll
42. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Brian Wilson
A cappella
Scat singing
sound
43. 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
Louis Armstrong
Cover version
phrase
Lyrics
44. 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.
Les Paul
urban folk
Standards
Form
45. 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.
Irving Berlin
Major/Minor
urban folk
Standards
46. 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.
Rock 'n' Roll
Louis Armstrong
Herman Parker
cadence
47. 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
Chuck Berry
Bridge
Producer
48. 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.'
The Supremes
Lyricist
Lyrics
Beach Boys
49. 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
Les Paul
Verse
Rock 'n' Roll
Big Band
50. 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
Elvis Presley
motive
Refrain
Ray Charles