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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Producer
Berry Gordy - Jr.
ASCAP
12-bar Blues
2. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Les Paul
sound
Race Records
Buddy Holly
3. 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
Glenn Miller
George Gershwin
Gene Autry
Standards
4. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Diana Ross
Form
Motown
Ray Charles
5. 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
Standards
Glenn Miller
Strophic
6. 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
James Brown
Blues
Harmony
Bel canto
7. 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.
Arranger
Sheet music
Janis Joplin
12-bar Blues
8. Motive - phrase - cadence
Timbre
Patsy Cline
Melody
Phil Spector
9. 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.
Producer
Nashville sound
Cover version
Chorus
10. 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
Disc Jockeys
Paul Whiteman
Glenn Miller
11. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
Aretha Franklin
Polyphonic
Louis Armstrong
12. 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.
Refrain
Hook
Payola
AABA form
13. 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
Benny Goodman
soul music
Countrypolitan
Berry Gordy - Jr.
14. 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
Buddy Holly
Patsy Cline
R&B
Rock 'n' Roll
15. 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.
Hank Williams
Frank Sinatra
Rockabilly
Scat singing
16. Motive - phrase - cadence
Duke Ellington
Polyphonic
Beat
Melody
17. 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
The Supremes
Timbre
Ballad
Louis Armstrong
18. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Texture
Banjo
Refrain
Syncopation
19. 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
AABA form
Phil Spector
Chuck Berry
Brian Wilson
20. 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).
Ballad
Buddy Holly
James Brown
Bridge
21. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Strophic
motive
Countrypolitan
Bob Dylan
22. 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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23. 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.
Strophic
Payola
Bel canto
George Gershwin
24. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Paul Whiteman
Chorus
Countrypolitan
Refrain
25. 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.
Rock 'n' Roll
Tempo
Ballad
Herman Parker
26. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Strophic
Chuck Berry
motive
Minstrel Show
27. Founder of Motown Records.
Buddy Holly
A cappella
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Rhythm
28. 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
Nashville sound
Producer
phrase
Hank Williams
29. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Herman Parker
Producer
Glenn Miller
30. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Standards
Producer
Scat singing
Ethel Merman
31. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Patsy Cline
Refrain
Hook
Disc Jockeys
32. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Janis Joplin
Gene Autry
Patsy Cline
33. 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
Producer
Electric Guitar
Chuck Berry
Cakewalk
34. 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.
Standards
Arranger
Acoustic recording
Tin Pan Alley
35. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Arranger
The Beatles
Sheet music
36. A person who writes the words for songs
Harmony
Frank Sinatra
Lyricist
Sheet music
37. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Rock 'n' Roll
AABA form
R&B
Cole Porter
38. 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
Texture
motive
Tin Pan Alley
Hank Williams
39. 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.'
Syncopation
Brian Wilson
Ray Charles
Concept album
40. 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
Polyphonic
Arranger
motive
Bessie Smith
41. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
George Gershwin
Hook
The Rolling Stones
Polyphonic
42. '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.
Tempo
sound
Elvis Presley
The Rolling Stones
43. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
The Beatles
AABA form
Lyrics
Hook
44. 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.
Gene Autry
Paul Whiteman
Motown
Standards
45. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
Louis Armstrong
12-bar Blues
Harmony
46. 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.'
Bel canto
Diana Ross
Banjo
Beach Boys
47. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Bel canto
urban folk
Patsy Cline
Minstrel Show
48. 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
Big Band
Refrain
Dick Clark
R&B
49. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Ethel Merman
Lyricist
Louis Armstrong
50. 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
Reverb
Patsy Cline
The Beatles
Ethel Merman