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
Jazz bands began to grow in popularity. List THREE of the seven instruments that would have been included in jazz bands of this era.
What are the trumpet (or cornet), trombone, clarinet, bass, banjo, guitar, drums?
200
*Listen* 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
King Oliver's Creole band was where this singer/cornet player first made his debut, he charmed audiences with his fun voice and trumpet improvisation.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
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
Stevie Wonder wrote a song called "Sir Duke" to honor this 1930s jazz pianist and band leader.
Who is Duke Ellington?
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
*Listen* 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
This music was a continuation of slave songs, and work songs.
What is the blues?
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 Roosevelt?
500
*Listen* This type of 1940s Big Band music was created by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker