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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Chorus
Chorus
Patsy Cline
Bluegrass
2. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Crooning
Lyricist
Benny Goodman
Frank Sinatra
3. A type of song in which a series of verses telling a story - often about a historical event or personal tragedy - are sung to a repeating melody (this sort of musical form is called strophic).
urban folk
Ballad
Bessie Smith
Bluegrass
4. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Scat singing
Dick Clark
Countrypolitan
Paul Whiteman
5. 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
Scat singing
Bridge
Hook
6. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
R&B
Texture
Bob Dylan
Acoustic recording
7. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Syncopation
Harmony
R&B
Chorus
8. 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.'
Major/Minor
Beach Boys
R&B
Polyphonic
9. 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
Bessie Smith
Sheet music
Benny Goodman
Jerry Lee Lewis
10. 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
Acoustic recording
Aretha Franklin
James Brown
Scott Joplin
11. 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.'
The Beatles
Melody
Disc Jockeys
Brian Wilson
12. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Beat
Minstrel Show
Ragtime
13. 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.
Herman Parker
Scat singing
Chorus
Disc Jockeys
14. 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.
Glenn Miller
Buddy Holly
AABA form
Minstrel Show
15. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Minstrel Show
Ethel Merman
Payola
16. 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
Reverb
Beach Boys
Phil Spector
Banjo
17. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Producer
Polyphonic
Brian Wilson
Electronic recording
18. 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.
The Supremes
Cakewalk
soul music
Rockabilly
19. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
motive
Dick Clark
Aretha Franklin
Ray Charles
20. 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.
Classic blues
Electric Guitar
Hank Williams
12-bar Blues
21. 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
12-bar Blues
Bessie Smith
Dick Clark
The Beatles
22. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
The Supremes
Rockabilly
Cover version
Timbre
23. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
phrase
Brian Wilson
Electronic recording
Concept album
24. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Acoustic recording
Classic blues
A cappella
ASCAP
25. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
cadence
Rockabilly
Strophic
Sheet music
26. A guitar whose sound comes chiefly from electro-magnetic amplification The pioneer of electric blues guitar was Aaron T-Bone Walker - whose urban blues recordings just after World War II were extremely popular - Les Paul created
Electric Guitar
Janis Joplin
Concept album
Scat singing
27. Trombonist and bandleader; formed his own band in 1937. Miller developed a peppy - clean-sounding style that appealed to small-town Midwestern people as well as to the big-city - East and West Coast constituency.
Glenn Miller
Herman Parker
Phil Spector
Electronic recording
28. 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
Lyrics
Blues
Refrain
Cover version
29. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Syncopation
Beat
Tempo
30. Trombonist and bandleader; formed his own band in 1937. Miller developed a peppy - clean-sounding style that appealed to small-town Midwestern people as well as to the big-city - East and West Coast constituency.
Beat
motive
Glenn Miller
Major/Minor
31. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Crooning
sound
Cole Porter
Buddy Holly
32. The words of a song.
Standards
Lyrics
Ray Charles
Bluegrass
33. 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
Strophic
Refrain
Rhythm
34. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Ragtime
Paul Whiteman
Form
35. 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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36. 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
The Supremes
Timbre
Phil Spector
37. 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.
sound
Reverb
Bel canto
Ethel Merman
38. 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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39. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Tin Pan Alley
Disc Jockeys
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Diana Ross
40. 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
Disc Jockeys
Louis Armstrong
Cole Porter
Aretha Franklin
41. 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
Acoustic recording
Boogie Woogie
Rockabilly
Chuck Berry
42. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Bridge
Syncopation
Texture
43. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Louis Armstrong
Beach Boys
Form
44. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Banjo
Polyphonic
Louis Armstrong
Form
45. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
urban folk
A cappella
Bob Dylan
Tempo
46. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
George Gershwin
Disc Jockeys
Timbre
47. Beat - meter - syncopation
George Gershwin
Rhythm
Cakewalk
Race Records
48. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Cole Porter
Strophic
cadence
Minstrel Show
49. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Scott Joplin
Concept album
Syncopation
Electric Guitar
50. 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
Texture
Boogie Woogie
Classic blues
Standards