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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 person who writes the words for songs
Boogie Woogie
Lyricist
Electric Guitar
Disc Jockeys
2. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Hook
'The twist'
Bluegrass
Buddy Holly
3. 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.
Reverb
Form
Scat singing
Frank Sinatra
4. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
urban folk
Janis Joplin
Dick Clark
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
5. 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.
Blues
ASCAP
cadence
Phil Spector
6. 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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7. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Sheet music
Acoustic recording
Cole Porter
'The twist'
8. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Ethel Merman
Rhythm
Rock 'n' Roll
Acoustic recording
9. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Motown
The Beatles
Sheet music
Ray Charles
10. 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.
Duke Ellington
Concept album
Verse
Janis Joplin
11. 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
sound
Polyphonic
Bessie Smith
Janis Joplin
12. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Strophic
Sheet music
Beat
13. Rock group from Liverpool - England - who dominated American popular music during the mid-1960s and started the 'British Invasion.' The band included John Lennon and George Harrison on lead and rhythm guitars and vocals - Paul McCartney on bass and v
The Beatles
Aretha Franklin
Form
Irving Berlin
14. 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
Nashville sound
Timbre
Strophic
Duke Ellington
15. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Minstrel Show
Electronic recording
George Gershwin
Strophic
16. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
The Supremes
Payola
ASCAP
Hook
17. 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.
Classic blues
Herman Parker
Elvis Presley
Acoustic recording
18. 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
Aretha Franklin
Ragtime
Cakewalk
The Rolling Stones
19. 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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20. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
ASCAP
Jerry Lee Lewis
Phil Spector
Polyphonic
21. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Producer
Countrypolitan
Scat singing
Benny Goodman
22. 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
Beat
Gene Autry
Lyrics
Form
23. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Electric Guitar
Lyricist
24. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Producer
Verse
Janis Joplin
A cappella
25. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Bluegrass
Brian Wilson
Polyphonic
Payola
26. 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.
Rock 'n' Roll
Aretha Franklin
Nashville sound
Rockabilly
27. The 'Godfather of Soul.' He was known for his acrobatic physicality and remarkable charisma on stage. No other single musician has proven to be as influential on the sound and style of black music as James Brown.
James Brown
Arranger
12-bar Blues
motive
28. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Les Paul
Disc Jockeys
Arranger
Acoustic recording
29. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Melody
Herman Parker
Benny Goodman
30. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
motive
Big Band
Melody
Patsy Cline
31. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Crooning
Classic blues
Ragtime
Les Paul
32. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Boogie Woogie
Arranger
Motown
33. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Aretha Franklin
Ray Charles
Texture
Cakewalk
34. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Lyricist
Frank Sinatra
Boogie Woogie
Beat
35. 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
Refrain
Les Paul
Elvis Presley
Chuck Berry
36. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
Classic blues
Scat singing
Buddy Holly
37. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Aretha Franklin
Blues
soul music
38. 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
Race Records
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
sound
39. 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.'
Brian Wilson
Harmony
Ethel Merman
Beach Boys
40. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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41. 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.'
Sheet music
Beach Boys
Beat
Refrain
42. 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
Irving Berlin
Jerry Lee Lewis
Arranger
Bel canto
43. '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.
Ray Charles
Aretha Franklin
Rockabilly
Les Paul
44. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Frank Sinatra
Patsy Cline
Benny Goodman
Rockabilly
45. 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
Louis Armstrong
Hook
Hank Williams
Diana Ross
46. Rock group from Liverpool - England - who dominated American popular music during the mid-1960s and started the 'British Invasion.' The band included John Lennon and George Harrison on lead and rhythm guitars and vocals - Paul McCartney on bass and v
The Beatles
A cappella
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Motown
47. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Brian Wilson
Melody
Harmony
The Beatles
48. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Cole Porter
cadence
motive
49. 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
Janis Joplin
Acoustic recording
Cakewalk
Tin Pan Alley
50. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Chorus
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bob Dylan
Syncopation