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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. A short musical passage
Concept album
Strophic
phrase
Blues
2. A recurrent rhythmical series
Classic blues
cadence
ASCAP
Scott Joplin
3. 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.
Herman Parker
Phil Spector
Frank Sinatra
AABA form
4. 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
Bessie Smith
Texture
Cakewalk
Jerry Lee Lewis
5. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Bob Dylan
Chorus
Major/Minor
6. 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
Dick Clark
Bob Dylan
Blues
Motown
7. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Chuck Berry
Dick Clark
Tempo
Herman Parker
8. 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.
Paul Whiteman
Sheet music
Scat singing
Minstrel Show
9. 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.
Irving Berlin
Bel canto
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
R&B
10. 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
Countrypolitan
Scat singing
Tin Pan Alley
Reverb
11. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Duke Ellington
The Rolling Stones
Motown
Dick Clark
12. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Race Records
Melody
Refrain
Lyricist
13. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Chuck Berry
Payola
Sheet music
Boogie Woogie
14. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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15. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
ASCAP
Diana Ross
Motown
urban folk
16. 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
Patsy Cline
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Boogie Woogie
Concept album
17. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
A cappella
Blues
Strophic
18. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Tin Pan Alley
ASCAP
Polyphonic
Ethel Merman
19. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Concept album
Cakewalk
The Supremes
20. 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.
Chorus
Minstrel Show
urban folk
Frank Sinatra
21. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Form
AABA form
sound
Payola
22. 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.
Texture
Frank Sinatra
Aretha Franklin
Rock 'n' Roll
23. 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.
Glenn Miller
Paul Whiteman
Syncopation
Bel canto
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.
Scat singing
Les Paul
ASCAP
sound
25. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Janis Joplin
Polyphonic
Janis Joplin
Disc Jockeys
26. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Strophic
Big Band
Patsy Cline
cadence
27. Founder of Motown Records.
Duke Ellington
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Janis Joplin
Payola
28. 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.
Chuck Berry
Reverb
Beach Boys
Big Band
29. 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.
Nashville sound
Cover version
Irving Berlin
Scat singing
30. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Tempo
Crooning
Elvis Presley
31. 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
Countrypolitan
Bluegrass
Crooning
Duke Ellington
32. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Payola
Gene Autry
Boogie Woogie
33. 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
Ethel Merman
Herman Parker
Benny Goodman
12-bar Blues
34. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Rockabilly
Bridge
Crooning
phrase
35. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
soul music
Classic blues
Major/Minor
Aretha Franklin
36. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Syncopation
Producer
The Rolling Stones
Harmony
37. 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
Blues
A cappella
Ethel Merman
Brian Wilson
38. 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.
Cover version
Elvis Presley
George Gershwin
Standards
39. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Electric Guitar
Acoustic recording
Big Band
40. 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
Banjo
Scat singing
Chorus
41. '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.
Ethel Merman
Aretha Franklin
The Supremes
Polyphonic
42. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Scat singing
The Rolling Stones
Elvis Presley
Rock 'n' Roll
43. 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
Minstrel Show
Race Records
Bluegrass
Chorus
44. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Hank Williams
The Supremes
'The twist'
45. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Countrypolitan
Ethel Merman
Harmony
Sheet music
46. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Brian Wilson
Payola
Tempo
47. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Melody
Irving Berlin
Scat singing
George Gershwin
48. 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.
Scat singing
Aretha Franklin
Countrypolitan
Bridge
49. 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
Race Records
Standards
Scat singing
Major/Minor
50. '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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Strophic
Timbre
Tempo