1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
100
The genre (or style) of music most popular during the 1900s
What is Ragtime?
100
This major world event influenced the lyrics and mood of many songs produced during the 1910s.
What is World War 1?
100
The most popular genre of music during the 1920s; usually sounded depressed
What is the blues?
100
*Listen* This particular type of jazz music was always upbeat and featured big bands.
What is swing?
100
This singing group consisted of three family members who traveled around to perform for Allied troops during World War II
Who are the Andrews Sisters?
200
The instrument used most often in ragtime music of the 1900s
What is the piano?
200
Irving Berlin composed songs for musicals (plays that include songs) during the 1910s such as "Puttin' on the Ritz." Name the titles of TWO musicals.
Possible answers: Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Oklahoma, Seussical the Musical, Sound of Music, Wicked, The Emperor's New Clothes, Mary Poppins, South Pacific, The Music Man, Rent, Grease, etc.
200
This woman was nicknamed "Empress of the Blues."
Who is Bessie Smith?
200
This event happened in October of 1929 to throw the United States into the Great Depression during the 1930s
What is the Stock Market Crash?
200
*Listen* This singer was the 1940s heart-throb of teenage girls around the country.
Who is Frank Sinatra?
300
The composer/musician nicknamed "The King of Ragtime"
Who is Scott Joplin?
300
This Louisiana city is where jazz got its start-- it was known as the "Musical Melting Pot."
What is New Orleans?
300
The way the lyrics are set up, or FORM, in blues songs-- the first two lines are the same, the third line is different
What is AAB?
300
This singer/pianist used comedy in his upbeat music during the 1930s; wrote and performed "Handful of Keys;" best known not by "Thomas," but by his nickname
Fats Waller
300
The Andrews Sisters performed for soldiers in the Allied forces. Name three of these countries.
What are United States, Russia (USSR), Britain, France, Australia, Poland
400
Einstein invented the phonograph-- one of the first technologies that allowed people to hear music in their own homes. This was the OTHER important invention that helped make ragtime music popular during the 1900s.
What is the player piano?
400
This is a technique used often in jazz music that involves singing with nonsense words.
What is scatting?
400
What the last word of each line does in a blues song.
What is rhyme?
400
Johnny Cash was one of the most influential musicians of this genre of music.
What is country music?
400
Country music got its start as this style of music with composers like Aaron Copland
What is cowboy/western music?
500
*Listen* This ragtime song was first popularized in a 1970s movie called "The Sting."
What is "The Entertainer?"
500
Because people desired for music to be a way to escape world problems and troubles, this was the MOOD of most music from the 1910s.
What is upbeat or happy?
500
This dance was the most popular dance of the 1920s
What is the Charleston?
500
This president used the song "Happy Days are Here Again" as his campaign song when trying to get elected.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
500
A blues scale uses "blue" notes to pull the music down (make the notes lower). Give one example of a blue note.
What are B-flat, A-flat, G-flat, D-flat, or E-flat.
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