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Music
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The words of a song.
Blues
Rockabilly
Beat
Lyrics
2. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Duke Ellington
ASCAP
Syncopation
Elvis Presley
3. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Hook
The Rolling Stones
Chuck Berry
Race Records
4. 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
Ray Charles
Dick Clark
Boogie Woogie
Jerry Lee Lewis
5. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
A cappella
Hank Williams
soul music
motive
6. Founded in 1914 in an attempt to force all business establishments that featured live music to pay fees ('royalties') for the public use of music.
Tempo
Benny Goodman
ASCAP
Rock 'n' Roll
7. 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
sound
Chuck Berry
ASCAP
Scott Joplin
8. 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
Les Paul
A cappella
Blues
Ray Charles
9. 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
Major/Minor
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Bluegrass
Form
10. The words of a song.
Electric Guitar
Lyrics
Gene Autry
Herman Parker
11. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
12-bar Blues
motive
Strophic
Cakewalk
12. A short musical passage
phrase
Ethel Merman
Dick Clark
Refrain
13. 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.
Rockabilly
Ray Charles
Phil Spector
Disc Jockeys
14. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Rhythm
Harmony
Diana Ross
15. 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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16. 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
Refrain
Gene Autry
ASCAP
Lyrics
17. 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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18. 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
Cole Porter
Bob Dylan
Verse
19. 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.
Form
Bridge
sound
Bessie Smith
20. 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.
Electric Guitar
Tin Pan Alley
AABA form
Acoustic recording
21. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Tin Pan Alley
Patsy Cline
Countrypolitan
22. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Classic blues
The Rolling Stones
Scat singing
Hook
23. 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
Producer
sound
Phil Spector
24. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Herman Parker
James Brown
Nashville sound
25. 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
Elvis Presley
The Rolling Stones
Crooning
Lyricist
26. A person who writes the words for songs
Scat singing
Lyricist
Buddy Holly
Beach Boys
27. 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
Bridge
Les Paul
Hank Williams
Rock 'n' Roll
28. 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.
urban folk
12-bar Blues
Ray Charles
sound
29. 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.
Standards
Classic blues
urban folk
Rock 'n' Roll
30. A recurrent rhythmical series
Producer
ASCAP
phrase
cadence
31. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Minstrel Show
AABA form
Electronic recording
Big Band
32. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Ballad
Hook
The Supremes
Hank Williams
33. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Rhythm
Reverb
Countrypolitan
34. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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35. 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.
Frank Sinatra
Crooning
Cover version
Bluegrass
36. 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
George Gershwin
Blues
Polyphonic
Concept album
37. 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.
Electronic recording
R&B
Bridge
James Brown
38. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Reverb
cadence
Lyricist
Jerry Lee Lewis
39. 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
Bessie Smith
12-bar Blues
Verse
The Beatles
40. 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.
Producer
Classic blues
Paul Whiteman
James Brown
41. '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.
Tempo
Aretha Franklin
Cole Porter
Producer
42. A guitarist and inventor - designed his own eight-track tape recorder and began in 1948 to release a series of popular recordings featuring his own playing - overdubbed to sound like an ensemble of six or more guitars.
Bluegrass
Duke Ellington
Syncopation
Les Paul
43. 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.
Frank Sinatra
Boogie Woogie
ASCAP
Ethel Merman
44. 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.
Minstrel Show
Electric Guitar
Herman Parker
Lyricist
45. Beat - meter - syncopation
phrase
Ray Charles
Brian Wilson
Rhythm
46. Founder of Motown Records.
Producer
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Reverb
Concept album
47. 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.
Lyricist
Lyrics
Rockabilly
Berry Gordy - Jr.
48. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Payola
Cakewalk
Electronic recording
Crooning
49. 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.'
Nashville sound
Beach Boys
Glenn Miller
The Supremes
50. 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.'
Syncopation
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bob Dylan
Melody