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Music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Chuck Berry
Harmony
Big Band
2. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Beach Boys
Cole Porter
Motown
Paul Whiteman
3. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Scat singing
Refrain
Syncopation
Lyrics
4. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Payola
Nashville sound
Sheet music
cadence
5. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Cakewalk
Countrypolitan
Bessie Smith
Electronic recording
6. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Benny Goodman
Cole Porter
Producer
soul music
7. 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 Beatles
Rockabilly
Melody
The Supremes
8. '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.
Cakewalk
Tempo
Patsy Cline
12-bar Blues
9. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
urban folk
cadence
Cakewalk
The Rolling Stones
10. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Electronic recording
Diana Ross
Lyricist
Aretha Franklin
11. 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
AABA form
Bob Dylan
12. Style of folk music that grew in popularity in the burgeoning New York folk scene during the 1960s. It included artists such as Bob Dylan.
urban folk
Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Phil Spector
13. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Minstrel Show
Patsy Cline
Hook
Beach Boys
14. 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
Acoustic recording
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
phrase
15. 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.
Herman Parker
Reverb
Paul Whiteman
ASCAP
16. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Rock 'n' Roll
Minstrel Show
AABA form
17. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Beach Boys
Duke Ellington
Elvis Presley
18. Short for reverberation. An effect produced with an electronic device that adds a time delay to a sound and then adds it back to the signal.
Reverb
Major/Minor
Acoustic recording
Les Paul
19. 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
Diana Ross
Louis Armstrong
Classic blues
Concept album
20. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Nashville sound
Arranger
Electronic recording
21. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
Minstrel Show
Timbre
ASCAP
Banjo
22. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
Chorus
sound
cadence
23. 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
Janis Joplin
Classic blues
Electric Guitar
Tin Pan Alley
24. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Bob Dylan
A cappella
12-bar Blues
Crooning
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
Hank Williams
Duke Ellington
Melody
26. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Crooning
Chorus
Syncopation
27. 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
Irving Berlin
The Beatles
Chorus
Irving Berlin
28. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Form
'The twist'
Refrain
Diana Ross
29. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Scat singing
Standards
Harmony
Rock 'n' Roll
30. 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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31. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Irving Berlin
Paul Whiteman
A cappella
Bluegrass
32. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Beach Boys
Cover version
Arranger
Payola
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.
Arranger
Tempo
Electronic recording
Ray Charles
34. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Arranger
Ethel Merman
Patsy Cline
ASCAP
35. 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.
Cover version
Payola
Janis Joplin
Disc Jockeys
36. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Beach Boys
Classic blues
Bluegrass
Polyphonic
37. 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.
Phil Spector
AABA form
Tempo
James Brown
38. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Chorus
Rhythm
sound
Countrypolitan
39. 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.'
Irving Berlin
Bob Dylan
sound
Ballad
40. 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
Concept album
R&B
Blues
Louis Armstrong
41. Founder of Motown Records.
Les Paul
Classic blues
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Cover version
42. 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
Minstrel Show
Electric Guitar
Rhythm
Rock 'n' Roll
43. 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
Blues
R&B
Patsy Cline
12-bar Blues
44. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Paul Whiteman
Texture
Chorus
Cover version
45. The words of a song.
Payola
Scott Joplin
Ballad
Lyrics
46. A person who writes the words for songs
12-bar Blues
Phil Spector
Beat
Lyricist
47. 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
Bridge
Minstrel Show
Cakewalk
Timbre
48. 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
Disc Jockeys
Blues
Chuck Berry
The Beatles
49. 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.
Duke Ellington
urban folk
Ethel Merman
Frank Sinatra
50. 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).
Texture
Bob Dylan
Chuck Berry
Ballad