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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. 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
Ballad
Gene Autry
Polyphonic
Rhythm
2. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Strophic
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Cole Porter
Syncopation
3. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Tin Pan Alley
Rock 'n' Roll
Frank Sinatra
Arranger
4. 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.
Ragtime
Irving Berlin
ASCAP
Bridge
5. 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.'
ASCAP
soul music
A cappella
Brian Wilson
6. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Cole Porter
Diana Ross
Aretha Franklin
Strophic
7. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Les Paul
Producer
Jerry Lee Lewis
Frank Sinatra
8. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Strophic
soul music
R&B
Patsy Cline
9. 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.
Paul Whiteman
Bridge
Scott Joplin
Patsy Cline
10. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Rhythm
Harmony
Hank Williams
James Brown
11. 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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12. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Scat singing
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
13. 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
Janis Joplin
Minstrel Show
Disc Jockeys
14. 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
Nashville sound
Bluegrass
Chuck Berry
Standards
15. 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
Louis Armstrong
Minstrel Show
George Gershwin
Chorus
16. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Verse
Lyricist
Cole Porter
Sheet music
17. 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.
Scat singing
The Supremes
Concept album
Tempo
18. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Gene Autry
Countrypolitan
Cover version
Hank Williams
19. 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
Frank Sinatra
Syncopation
Frank Sinatra
20. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Lyricist
The Beatles
Hank Williams
21. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Verse
Harmony
Reverb
22. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Ballad
Classic blues
Syncopation
Texture
23. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Classic blues
Disc Jockeys
Polyphonic
The Supremes
24. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Crooning
Chuck Berry
Tin Pan Alley
Disc Jockeys
25. 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
Beach Boys
cadence
Paul Whiteman
26. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
AABA form
Chorus
motive
Big Band
27. 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.
Lyricist
Buddy Holly
Herman Parker
Phil Spector
28. 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.
Texture
Duke Ellington
Classic blues
Glenn Miller
29. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Major/Minor
James Brown
Ray Charles
30. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Ray Charles
soul music
Dick Clark
Big Band
31. 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
Countrypolitan
A cappella
Ragtime
Refrain
32. 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
Bluegrass
phrase
Big Band
33. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Nashville sound
ASCAP
A cappella
12-bar Blues
34. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Standards
Paul Whiteman
Texture
35. 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.
Janis Joplin
Tempo
12-bar Blues
Rockabilly
36. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Tin Pan Alley
Rhythm
Ray Charles
Electronic recording
37. Beat - meter - syncopation
Duke Ellington
Rhythm
Refrain
Acoustic recording
38. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Rock 'n' Roll
The Supremes
Aretha Franklin
Chorus
39. 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
'The twist'
Tempo
Elvis Presley
Jerry Lee Lewis
40. 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
Gene Autry
Phil Spector
Hank Williams
Reverb
41. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Ethel Merman
Scat singing
Motown
Producer
42. 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
Ray Charles
Ragtime
AABA form
The Beatles
43. A recurrent rhythmical series
Big Band
cadence
Bluegrass
Crooning
44. 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.
Classic blues
Polyphonic
Patsy Cline
Phil Spector
45. '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.
R&B
Nashville sound
Motown
Tempo
46. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Cole Porter
Patsy Cline
Les Paul
Texture
47. 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
A cappella
Phil Spector
The Beatles
48. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
cadence
Classic blues
Syncopation
49. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Beat
Patsy Cline
Motown
soul music
50. 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
phrase
Herman Parker
The Supremes