19th Century
Swing and Blues
Rock Roots
Country Music
Hip Hop and Film Music
Misc
100

_______ _________ refers to instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, especially popular in the nineteenth century.

program music

100

_______ _______ _______ is a technique where a musical phrase is followed by a response, often a different phrase or a reiteration of the first phrase. Like a musical conversation!

call and response

100

A _______ is a remake of an earlier, often successful song typically with the goal of reaching a broader audience.

cover

100

In the 1970s, _______ ________ was a response or countermovement to the slick production styles of Nashville.

outlaw country

100

_________ involves the inclusion of an element of a pre-existing recording by someone else in a composition.

sampling

100

What is one of the most common musical forms in blues music?

12 bar blues


200

A/n ________ (fixed idea), acts as a musical thread in a large musical work.


idée fixe

200

______ is a style of jazz music that developed contemporaneously with a style of dancing known by the same name in the late 1920s to 1940s.

swing

200

_______ is a genre of dance music with roots in swing jazz as well as blues singing.

rhythm and blues (R&B)

200

What genre of music draws from old-time music but is faster, more virtuosic, based on solos, for listening rather than dancing, and includes more vocals?

bluegrass

200

John Williams, and many other composers, often use _________ (leading motives) or basic recurring themes that represent a person, object or idea.

leitmotif

200

_________ _______ was a combination of country music and swing and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys were key figures.

Western swing

300

The opera Rigoletto, featuring a hunchbacked court jester, was written by __________.

Giuseppe Verdi

300

In the the 1920s-1930s, women dominated ________ ________, a style that often included pianos and horns.

classic blues 

300

What was the name of one of the main African-derived rhythms that early rock guitarist Bo Diddley used?

hambone

300

What is the current term for the mostly instrumental music that rural communities played in the 17th-19th centuries in the United States which is largely influenced by European immigrants?

old-time

300

Although it was not the first rap recording, the song ______ _______ by the Sugarhill Gang became the first rap single to become a top 40 hit on Billboard Hot 100.

"Rapper's Delight" 

300

Who was the DJ for the party in the Bronx in 1973 that is cited as the birth of hip hop?

DJ Kool Herc

400

Italian operas marked the high point of ____ ______ (beautiful singing) style, florid melodic lines delivered by agile voices with pure tone.

bel canto

400

_______ _______ emerged from African American vocal genres such as field hollers, street cries, and work songs in the 19th century and earlier and typically involved just one or two musicians singing and playing guitar and/or harmonica.

country blues

400

Rock music typically uses quadruple meter with an emphasis on second and fourth beat known as a _______.

backbeat


400

What important country music family recorded in Bristol, TN in 1927?

Carter Family 

400

Name 5 out of the 9 elements of hip hop according to KRS-One.

1.Breakin

2.Emceein

3.Graffiti Art

4.Deejayin

5.Beat Boxin

6.Street Fashion

7.Street Language

8.Street Knowledge

9.Street Entrepreneurialism

400

Composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was known for his use of ________ ________, the musical expansion of a theme by varying melodic outline, harmony, or rhythm.

thematic transformation

500

19th century Italian opera defined largely by ______ ______ (serious opera) and _____ _____ (the Italian version of comic opera), genres that had already been well-established.

opera seria, opera buffa

500

Which jazz composer, bandleader and piano player appeared regularly at the Cotton Club and generally played music for concerts instead of for dancing?

Duke Ellington

500

Electric guitars use a device called a _________ which is made up of magnets wrapped in fine copper wire.

pickup

500

What genre or style turned country into a multimillion dollar industry and involved smooth vocals and string sections?

countrypolitan 

500

________ is when the music comes from an unseen source music (the characters cannot hear this music) while  ________ refers to music that comes from a logical source in the scene and functions as part of the story.



underscoring, source music

500

The tuning system of the gamelan set at Allegheny College, one of two possible tuning systems for Javanese gamelan, is called ________.

slendro