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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Scott Joplin
Classic blues
Jerry Lee Lewis
Louis Armstrong
2. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
The Rolling Stones
Harmony
Bridge
Boogie Woogie
3. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Race Records
Race Records
Nashville sound
Strophic
4. Beat - meter - syncopation
Arranger
Aretha Franklin
phrase
Rhythm
5. The words of a song.
Motown
Lyrics
Duke Ellington
12-bar Blues
6. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Duke Ellington
The Rolling Stones
Scat singing
Arranger
7. African American musical genre that emerged after World War II. Consisted of a loose cluster of styles derived from black musical traditions - characterized by energetic and hard-swinging rhythms. At first performed exclusively by black musicians for
Rockabilly
Berry Gordy - Jr.
R&B
Arranger
8. 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
Glenn Miller
Ragtime
George Gershwin
Louis Armstrong
9. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Motown
Timbre
James Brown
10. '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.
Sheet music
The Rolling Stones
Tempo
Electronic recording
11. 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.
Race Records
Beat
Paul Whiteman
A cappella
12. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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13. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Chuck Berry
Minstrel Show
The Rolling Stones
Arranger
14. 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.'
R&B
Brian Wilson
Boogie Woogie
Concept album
15. Founder of Motown Records.
Paul Whiteman
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Irving Berlin
Cover version
16. 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.
Ragtime
Tin Pan Alley
Frank Sinatra
Melody
17. 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
Concept album
Reverb
Electric Guitar
Buddy Holly
18. '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.
George Gershwin
Classic blues
Aretha Franklin
Big Band
19. 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
George Gershwin
Major/Minor
AABA form
Ballad
20. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Chuck Berry
Nashville sound
Harmony
Scat singing
21. 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
AABA form
The Rolling Stones
Motown
22. 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
Electronic recording
cadence
Acoustic recording
23. 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.
12-bar Blues
Rhythm
Frank Sinatra
Cole Porter
24. 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.
Syncopation
Standards
A cappella
Timbre
25. 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
Electric Guitar
Blues
Standards
26. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Hank Williams
George Gershwin
AABA form
27. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Bob Dylan
Dick Clark
Refrain
Chorus
28. 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
Texture
Tin Pan Alley
Bluegrass
Crooning
29. 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
Major/Minor
Gene Autry
A cappella
Lyrics
30. 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.
urban folk
Cover version
Scott Joplin
Brian Wilson
31. 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.
12-bar Blues
Benny Goodman
Timbre
R&B
32. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
R&B
Big Band
Jerry Lee Lewis
Concept album
33. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
Sheet music
Berry Gordy - Jr.
AABA form
34. 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
Benny Goodman
Scott Joplin
Cakewalk
Verse
35. 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
Beach Boys
Refrain
Cakewalk
Electric Guitar
36. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
AABA form
Frank Sinatra
motive
37. 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
Ethel Merman
The Beatles
Dick Clark
Texture
38. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Chuck Berry
Minstrel Show
Nashville sound
39. 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.
Syncopation
Rockabilly
Polyphonic
Bridge
40. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Cover version
Frank Sinatra
Paul Whiteman
Race Records
41. A person who writes the words for songs
Sheet music
cadence
soul music
Lyricist
42. Dubbed the 'first tycoon of teen -' his studio production techniques are known as the 'wall of sound' because of his utilization of dense orchestrations - multiple instruments - and heavy reverb.
Rhythm
Timbre
Phil Spector
Herman Parker
43. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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44. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Acoustic recording
45. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Brian Wilson
Crooning
46. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
'The twist'
Crooning
Dick Clark
12-bar Blues
47. 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.
12-bar Blues
Polyphonic
Motown
Polyphonic
48. 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
Nashville sound
Producer
Brian Wilson
49. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
sound
Big Band
Dick Clark
Glenn Miller
50. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
urban folk
Bridge
Scat singing