This soft rock musician is most famous for composing the score to "The Lion King".
Who is Elton John?
100
This chord progression is common to both blues and early rock 'n' roll.
What is the 12 bar blues progression?
100
Jukeboxes in the 1950s played these, which often played a single song on each side.
What is a record?
100
Orchestra: strings, winds, brass, and percussion
What is a symphony?
200
The height of a sound wave, which determines its loudness.
What is amplitude?
200
This parody artist takes existing songs and writes new lyrics to be clever or funny.
Who is Weird Al Yankovic?
200
I woke up this morning and I knew
I woke up this morning and I knew
This repetitive lyrical form would make me blue
What is AAB form?
200
The most influential instrument in the 1950s
What is the electric guitar?
200
Voices by themselves, sometimes accompanied by piano
What is choral music?
300
The number of peaks and valleys in a sound wave, which determine its pitch.
What is frequency?
300
This folk musician from the 1930s wrote "This Land is Your Land" to both celebrate America's natural wonders and present a political commentary on social issues of his time.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
300
The catchy part of a pop song that repeats, or an ensemble where YOU are the instrument
What is chorus?
300
Teens in the 1960s would watch this television program, where The Beatles (and many others) got their start, to hear the latest rock stars perform.
What is The Ed Sullivan Show?
300
Acoustic guitar, tambourine, voices.
What is folk revival/folk rock?
400
These units measure loudness (0 is near total silence; a jet engine is 120).
What are decibels?
400
This "Piano Man" wrote his most famous song with a time signature (meter) of:
What is 3/4 time?
400
If you correctly name the form he used for his famous piano composition, Mozart's eyes will "twinkle".
What is theme and variations?
400
The first and (thus far) only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress.
What is Michael Jackson's Thriller?
400
Bass guitar, constant bass drum ("four on the floor"), many synthesized instruments
What is disco?
500
The unique pattern of harmonics, or overtones, in a sound wave, produces this quality (which makes a flute sound different than a piano, and your voice different than mine).
What is timbre?
500
Before he "left the building", he was the first artist to have nine hit singles in the Hot 100 at one time.
Who was Elvis Presley?
500
A symphony usually has four of these, varying in mood and tempo.
What is a movement?
500
The third, and final, stage of the audio engineering process can be compared to proofreading a paper.
What is mastering?
500
Electric guitar, drums, sometimes electric bass and keyboards