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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. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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2. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Ballad
Reverb
Race Records
3. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
Bluegrass
Aretha Franklin
Verse
4. 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.
Bel canto
12-bar Blues
ASCAP
cadence
5. 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
Frank Sinatra
Hook
Hank Williams
Concept album
6. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Texture
Electronic recording
Timbre
AABA form
7. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Diana Ross
Polyphonic
Patsy Cline
Arranger
8. 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.
James Brown
Standards
Boogie Woogie
Disc Jockeys
9. 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
Electric Guitar
Producer
Minstrel Show
Cakewalk
10. The words of a song.
R&B
Polyphonic
The Rolling Stones
Lyrics
11. 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
Bridge
Brian Wilson
Electric Guitar
12. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Boogie Woogie
Texture
phrase
Harmony
13. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
The Supremes
Boogie Woogie
Countrypolitan
Ethel Merman
14. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Gene Autry
Acoustic recording
R&B
Banjo
15. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Jerry Lee Lewis
James Brown
Chorus
Lyrics
16. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Form
Duke Ellington
soul music
Diana Ross
17. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Refrain
Tempo
R&B
Scat singing
18. 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
Beach Boys
Bessie Smith
Polyphonic
Major/Minor
19. Clarinetist and popular band leader; known as the 'King of Swing.' His popularity and the success of his band helped establish the swing era in the early 1930s. He was the first white bandleader to hire black musicians in his band
The Rolling Stones
James Brown
Bel canto
Benny Goodman
20. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
James Brown
Polyphonic
21. 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
motive
Beat
Bridge
22. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Frank Sinatra
Buddy Holly
Aretha Franklin
Ethel Merman
23. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Big Band
'The twist'
Phil Spector
Payola
24. 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.
Rhythm
Dick Clark
Paul Whiteman
Ragtime
25. 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.
Glenn Miller
Herman Parker
Gene Autry
Disc Jockeys
26. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Countrypolitan
Sheet music
Classic blues
Hank Williams
27. A technique used by opera singers that emphasizes breath control - a fluid and relaxed voice - and the use of subtle variations in pitch and rhythmic phrasing for dramatic effect.
Bel canto
urban folk
Lyricist
Frank Sinatra
28. 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
Bel canto
Bessie Smith
Melody
Ragtime
29. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Ballad
Nashville sound
Cole Porter
30. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Rockabilly
George Gershwin
Major/Minor
31. 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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32. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Herman Parker
Diana Ross
Glenn Miller
Big Band
33. Beat - meter - syncopation
Hook
Classic blues
Rhythm
Hank Williams
34. 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.
Les Paul
Bluegrass
Glenn Miller
George Gershwin
35. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
sound
Verse
Buddy Holly
The Rolling Stones
36. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
Ethel Merman
phrase
'The twist'
Nashville sound
37. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Nashville sound
Banjo
motive
Polyphonic
38. 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
The Supremes
Verse
Timbre
Banjo
39. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
Major/Minor
Sheet music
Countrypolitan
40. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
cadence
soul music
Janis Joplin
Race Records
41. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Bluegrass
Standards
Beat
Disc Jockeys
42. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Aretha Franklin
Scat singing
Elvis Presley
Verse
43. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
'The twist'
Les Paul
Duke Ellington
44. 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
sound
Concept album
Producer
Rock 'n' Roll
45. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Race Records
Producer
Irving Berlin
46. 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.
urban folk
Glenn Miller
Rockabilly
Acoustic recording
47. The son of an immigrant leatherworker - did much to bridge the gulf between art music and popular music. Studied European classical music but also spent a great deal of time listening to jazz musicians in New York City. Wrote Porgy and Bess (1935) -
George Gershwin
Ragtime
Reverb
Phil Spector
48. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Standards
Syncopation
Motown
Glenn Miller
49. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Rock 'n' Roll
Scott Joplin
The Rolling Stones
Concept album
50. 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
Scott Joplin
Arranger
Rock 'n' Roll
Ragtime