Music Theory
Early Jazz
The Golden Age
Country Music
Afro-Caribbean & Latin
100
Lines and spaces for notating pitches and rhythms.
What is the Staff
100
Led the most popular big band of the swing era
Who is Glenn Miller.
100
Located at t28th and Broadway in New York City, and the center of the industry.
What is Tin Pan Alley
100
The "father" of country music
Who is Jimmie Rodgers
100
The hallmark of Afro-Brazilian music.
What is the samba
200
The Key Signature with 4 flats.
What is Ab Major
200
His playing, singing, and outlook on life and art shaped the direction of jazz as a unique expression of American culture.
Who is Louis Armstrong
200
America's most prolific composers for over sixty years.
Who is Irving Berlin
200
The first blown singing "Cowboy"
Who is Gene Autry
200
The country music of Cuba.
What is musica campesina
300
When a performer has a notation to play soft.
What is piano
300
Duke Ellington's band style style during the late 1920's
What is jungle music
300
Extravaganzas containing unified themes, comedy with sexual themes, and female dancers.
What is Burlesque.
300
Known as the "Man in Black."
Who is Johnny Cash
300
Underlying rhythm of the 3-2 or 2-3 maintained throughout a song.
What is clave
400
Three notes stacked on top of each other.
What is a triad
400
Influential post-stride piano style that flourished in the 1930's and 40's
What is boogie woogie
400
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
What is ASCAP
400
Songwriter for "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys."
Who is Willie Nelson
400
Jamaican musical style with an emphasis off the downbeat.
What is reggae
500
The seventh note of the major scale.
What is the leading tone
500
Known for his elegant, floating tenor saxophone style and long, improvised melodic lines.
Who is Lester Young
500
Writing team for Oklahoma!
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein
500
Successful female trip that blended traditional blue-grass with a post-punk visual look.
Who are the Dixie Chicks
500
Up-tempo calypso style for dancing with lyrics more often about partying than social issues.
What is Soca
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