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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. 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
12-bar Blues
Elvis Presley
Harmony
Tin Pan Alley
2. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Polyphonic
The Rolling Stones
Tin Pan Alley
3. 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) -
Gene Autry
Bel canto
Chuck Berry
George Gershwin
4. Early rock 'n' roll guitarist - singer - and songwriter from the country/rockabilly side of rock 'n' roll. Killed tragically at the age of twenty-two in a plane crash.
AABA form
Buddy Holly
Dick Clark
soul music
5. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Irving Berlin
Timbre
Rock 'n' Roll
6. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Ethel Merman
Sheet music
Syncopation
7. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Melody
Race Records
Syncopation
Bluegrass
8. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Dick Clark
Lyrics
motive
Lyrics
9. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Janis Joplin
Hank Williams
Herman Parker
10. Early rock 'n' roll guitarist - singer - and songwriter from the country/rockabilly side of rock 'n' roll. Killed tragically at the age of twenty-two in a plane crash.
Chuck Berry
R&B
Buddy Holly
The Supremes
11. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Classic blues
Motown
Diana Ross
Crooning
12. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Race Records
A cappella
Major/Minor
Bluegrass
13. 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
motive
Bridge
Standards
14. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Verse
Refrain
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
15. 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
Chuck Berry
Lyrics
Gene Autry
Scott Joplin
16. 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
Bluegrass
Bessie Smith
Lyrics
Hook
17. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
The Supremes
Hook
sound
Frank Sinatra
18. 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
Electric Guitar
Beat
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
19. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Aretha Franklin
Texture
Dick Clark
Glenn Miller
20. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Cole Porter
A cappella
Disc Jockeys
Patsy Cline
21. 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.
Strophic
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Rhythm
Paul Whiteman
22. 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
Big Band
Dick Clark
The Beatles
Payola
23. 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.
Benny Goodman
Producer
Melody
Nashville sound
24. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Race Records
Acoustic recording
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Crooning
25. 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
Beach Boys
Benny Goodman
cadence
26. '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.
Tempo
Producer
Elvis Presley
Verse
27. 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
Strophic
Janis Joplin
Louis Armstrong
motive
28. 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
Refrain
Harmony
Duke Ellington
Cakewalk
29. 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.
Melody
Cole Porter
'The twist'
Standards
30. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Rhythm
Big Band
Electronic recording
urban folk
31. 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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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
Boogie Woogie
Race Records
sound
Tin Pan Alley
33. '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.
Tempo
Blues
Janis Joplin
Rockabilly
34. 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
Duke Ellington
Gene Autry
Tempo
Patsy Cline
35. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Cover version
Beach Boys
Beat
soul music
36. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
cadence
Boogie Woogie
Ethel Merman
Chorus
37. 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
AABA form
Gene Autry
Refrain
Glenn Miller
38. 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
Harmony
Jerry Lee Lewis
Electric Guitar
Syncopation
39. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Standards
Patsy Cline
Gene Autry
Herman Parker
40. 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
Janis Joplin
Major/Minor
Electric Guitar
The Rolling Stones
41. A person who writes the words for songs
Louis Armstrong
cadence
Lyricist
12-bar Blues
42. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Gene Autry
Chorus
Bel canto
Crooning
43. 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
urban folk
The Rolling Stones
Timbre
44. 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
Chorus
sound
Boogie Woogie
45. A short musical passage
phrase
Race Records
Reverb
Cover version
46. 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.
AABA form
Payola
ASCAP
Berry Gordy - Jr.
47. 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.
Rhythm
The Rolling Stones
Glenn Miller
Major/Minor
48. 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
Bob Dylan
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Ethel Merman
Irving Berlin
49. 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
Beach Boys
Ethel Merman
Acoustic recording
Producer
50. '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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Payola
Aretha Franklin
Ray Charles