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100
This DAW was created in 1993, but was purchased by Apple in 2002. It is the favorite DAW of artists like Jacob Collier, FINNEAS, Kendrick Lamar, and Pharrell Williams.
What is Logic Pro?
100
The Big 3 Major Record Labels
What are Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group?
100
CD’s were first introduced commercially in this decade
What were the 1980s?
100
This section tunes first in an orchestra
What is the brass section?
100
The NYU jazz studies program is housed here
What is Third North?
200
What’s this?
What is a LefreQue sound bridge?
200
He is considered the father of the “Theatre of the Oppressed”
Who is Augusto Boal?
200
Charlie Parker got this thrown at him by drummer Jo Jones as a teenager
A) a music stand
B) a cymbal
C) a drum stick
D) a stool
What is B) a cymbal?
200
The instruments in a standard (classical) piano trio
What are violin, cello and piano?
200
The Ed Theatre office is located here
What is Pless Annex?
300
Before moving coil and condenser microphone, this type of microphone was used. They are known to be very warm sounding, but are very fragile.
What is a ribbon mic?
300
He is known as the “Father of Blues”
Who was W. C. Handy?
300
The U.S. Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 is also known as
What is The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act OR The Mickey Mouse Act?
300
John Coltrane played this instrument (be specific)
What is tenor saxophone?
300
The first jazz recording was made here
What is New York City/New York Studios?
400
Often called an electric piano, this instrument was popular in the 1970s, and was manufactured by Fender.
What is the (Fender) Rhodes?
400
Name two famous Educational Theatre Practicioners
Who are Cecil’s O’Neill, Bertlolt Brecht, Viola Spolin, Dorothy Heathcote, Anna Deveare Smith, Jonathan Jones, Joe Salvatore, Nancy Smithner?
400
The inventor of the piano(forte)
(Full name)
Who was Bartolomeo Cristofori?
400
This theatre genre uses interviews and transcripts to recreate behaviors word for word and gesture for gesture
What is verbatim theatre?
400
Does the USA have public performance rights for sound recordings performed on terrestrial (AM and FM) radio?
No
500
This was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer, and it can be heard all over the 1980s.
What is the Yamaha DX-7?
500
The rise of the synthesizer as we know it today came around in the late 1960s, guided by this man who sold his flagship modular synth to many artists, including The Beatles.
Who was Robert Moog?
500
The first U.S copyright law was enacted in this year
What is 1790, when the U.S. Congress implemented a principle of copyright enshrined in the U.S. Constitution?
500
The name of the theatrical process of creating your own works centered around a theme
What is devising?
500
The NYU ensemble that performs at NYU’s Commencement ceremonies
What is NYU Pipes and Drums?