Genres
Composers/Performers
Terms
Dates
Instruments and Inventions
100
Music style that developed in the 1940's and 50's, based at first on the big-band-jazz style, then later adding electric instruments
Rock
100
Major ragtime composer
Scott Joplin
100
Made-up vocal syllables and melodies
Scat Singing
100
An event in the 1920s that led to jazz music becoming wildly popular
Prohibition
100
Instrument invented in the 1800s, later used for jazz and rock playing.
Saxophone
200
A style of jazz, mostly on piano, involving heavy use of syncopation
Ragtime
200
Jazz trumpet player famous for a bent trumpet and 'bullfrog' cheeks/throat
Dizzy Gillespie
200
Moving a needle across a record to create a certain sound
Scratching
200
The year of the Woodstock Music Festival
1969
200
Instrument invented in Seattle in the 1940s
Electric Bass
300
A style of music in the early 1900s that developed from marches and field hollers/slave songs
Jazz
300
Name a band of the 'British Invasion' in the 1960s
Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who
300
Changing the beat to emphasize beats not normally emphasized
Syncopation
300
An important event in the 1940's that led to the end of the 'big band' era
WWII
300
The first electric guitars were based on this instrument
Hawaiian lap steel guitar
400
Name one of the precursors to reggae music
Mento, Ska
400
Name one of the inventors of the electric guitar
George Beauchamp, Adolph Rickenbacker
400
Going up by half-steps on the piano/using all the keys
Chromaticism
400
The decade that rap and hiphop started becoming popular
1970s
400
A music playing device invented in the late 1800s
Phonograph
500
A type of rock that was developed in the 70's (hint: not disco)
Glam Rock
500
One of the first rap/hiphop DJs in the 1970s
DJ Kool Herc
500
Making up melodies on the spot
Improvisation
500
Name a major event of the 1960s
MLK/JFK assassinations, Vietnam War
500
These instruments are used in a 'big band' setting
4 Saxes 4 Trumpets 4 Trombones Bass Guitar Piano Drums
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