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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
phrase
Cakewalk
The Beatles
Louis Armstrong
2. 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
Major/Minor
Chorus
Minstrel Show
3. 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
Melody
Gene Autry
Tin Pan Alley
4. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Chuck Berry
Ragtime
Electronic recording
Big Band
5. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Payola
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lee Lewis
Timbre
6. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Lyricist
Dick Clark
Patsy Cline
Big Band
7. 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
ASCAP
Electric Guitar
Boogie Woogie
Payola
8. 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.
Cover version
Benny Goodman
Crooning
Elvis Presley
9. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Arranger
Bel canto
The Rolling Stones
Beach Boys
10. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Refrain
Patsy Cline
Arranger
soul music
11. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Ethel Merman
Hank Williams
Timbre
12. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Lyricist
Dick Clark
Rock 'n' Roll
Ray Charles
13. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Rhythm
Form
Glenn Miller
14. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Form
Herman Parker
Harmony
Syncopation
15. 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
Producer
Frank Sinatra
Major/Minor
Verse
16. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Tin Pan Alley
Ballad
Banjo
Sheet music
17. 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.
Ballad
Standards
Verse
Paul Whiteman
18. 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
Ethel Merman
Bridge
Chuck Berry
Blues
19. 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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20. Urban folk singer and songwriter; he took his stage name from his favorite poet - Dylan Thomas. His songs include hits such as 'Blowin' in the Wind -' 'Mr. Tambourine Man -' and 'Like a Rolling Stone.'
Lyrics
Big Band
Bob Dylan
Rock 'n' Roll
21. 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
Verse
Tempo
Standards
Hank Williams
22. 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
Ragtime
Glenn Miller
Arranger
23. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Nashville sound
Arranger
Electronic recording
Beach Boys
24. 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
Producer
Syncopation
Patsy Cline
Bluegrass
25. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Patsy Cline
Beach Boys
Big Band
26. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Arranger
Paul Whiteman
A cappella
Phil Spector
27. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Tin Pan Alley
Strophic
Big Band
R&B
28. 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.
Bessie Smith
Nashville sound
James Brown
Ragtime
29. 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
Standards
Jerry Lee Lewis
Countrypolitan
Irving Berlin
30. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Patsy Cline
Texture
Electric Guitar
Standards
31. 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
Chorus
Verse
Harmony
Louis Armstrong
32. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Arranger
'The twist'
Jerry Lee Lewis
Hank Williams
33. 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
Glenn Miller
Ragtime
motive
AABA form
34. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Jerry Lee Lewis
Verse
Strophic
Bluegrass
35. 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
Electric Guitar
Patsy Cline
Tin Pan Alley
'The twist'
36. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
Dick Clark
Rockabilly
Bluegrass
37. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
'The twist'
Payola
Payola
38. '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.
Electric Guitar
Tempo
Reverb
Diana Ross
39. 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).
The Beatles
Tin Pan Alley
Ballad
Arranger
40. 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
Duke Ellington
Diana Ross
Strophic
41. 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.
Major/Minor
Strophic
The Supremes
Phil Spector
42. 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
Syncopation
The Supremes
Blues
Bob Dylan
43. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
The Beatles
Dick Clark
Gene Autry
Beach Boys
44. '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.
Duke Ellington
Aretha Franklin
Lyrics
Tin Pan Alley
45. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Lyricist
The Rolling Stones
Harmony
Elvis Presley
46. Urban folk singer and songwriter; he took his stage name from his favorite poet - Dylan Thomas. His songs include hits such as 'Blowin' in the Wind -' 'Mr. Tambourine Man -' and 'Like a Rolling Stone.'
Bob Dylan
motive
Form
The Rolling Stones
47. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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48. 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
Boogie Woogie
Producer
Cover version
Elvis Presley
49. 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
Benny Goodman
Jerry Lee Lewis
Motown
Elvis Presley
50. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
Chorus
Hank Williams
Ragtime