Motown
Pop Characteristics
The Ghost of Quizzes Past
Modern Stage Names
Vocabulary
100
"Motown" is another name for this city.
What is Detroit?
100
Modern popular music may have a rock or four-on-the-floor one of these.
What is a beat.
100
This is the city where Broadway resides.
Where is New York, NY?
100
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Who is Eminem?
100
This is music intended for a wide audience.
What is popular (or pop) music?
200
This singer, then the youngest member of the Jackson 5, got his start on Motown Records
Who is Michael Jackson?
200
Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," like many popular pieces, in in this tonality.
What is major?
200
Punk musicians are jokingly supposed to only know this many chords.
What is three?
200
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Who is Lady Gaga?
200
These highly recognizablke motifs tend to "tug" at people's ears.
What are hooks?
300
This was the name of the main Motown band.
What is The Funk Brothers?
300
This type of texture, used by Dixieland musicians and by Bach in his fugues, basically shut them out from the world of pop music.
What is polyphony?
300
The two genre that mixed to create jazz were blues and this.
What is ragtime?
300
Ben Haggerty
Who is Macklemore?
300
This is an organized series of pitches.
What is a melody?
400
The Motown band were virtuosi in this genre of music.
What is jazz?
400
This hand-held percussion instrument, well over 2000 years old, gives a popular, jingling timbre to Motown music.
What is the tambourine?
400
This is the general feeling a work of art portrays.
What is mood (or tone)?
400
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
Who is Lana Del Rey?
400
Beethoven, who had flawless technique on the piano, was a good example of one of these.
What is a virtuoso?
500
He is the founder of Motown Records
Who is Berry Gordy?
500
Believe it or not: pop music is rarely about political protest, but is instead genrally about this subject.
What is love?
500
This is the year Wagner died.
What is 1883?
500
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor
Who is Lorde?
500
This is the intentional combination of pitch and rhythm.
What is music?
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