Blues
The most common kind of Blues progression has this many bars.
What are 12 bars?
He was a pioneer in 12-tone music
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
Motown originated this large city.
What is Detroit?
Rock and Roll was heavily influenced by this musical genre.
What is the Blues?
This is an example of a genre that was influenced by the Blues.
What is jazz, rock and roll, or country? (any of these are acceptable)
George Crumb wrote this composition in tempore belli.
What is Black Angels?
This was the top-selling girl group to come out of Motown.
Who are The Supremes?
True or False: the origin of Rock and Roll can be identified by a single event.
What is false?
A lowered 3rd, 5th, or 7th scale degree is often called what in Blues music
What is a blue note?
John Cage used screws, bolts, felt, erasers, and other materials for this purpose
What is to create a prepared piano?
In 1973, Motown hit a significant achievement by being the largest this type of corporation.
What is a Black-owned corporation?
Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" introduced this new musical element to Rock and Roll.
What is the electric guitar solo?
The form of a Blues song is very often this kind of pattern.
What is a call and response pattern?
This genre of music employs the use of limited musical materials.
What is minimalism?
True or false: Berry Gordy Jr. created a company based in Detroit but primarily hired musical talent from outside of Michigan.
What is false?
He is an all-time top selling solo recording artist, with 149 Top Ten hits and 92 LP albums.
Who is Elvis Presley?
What is the Mississippi Delta Region?
This composer wrote 114 songs, with enormous musical variety, and published them with no copyright registration.
Who is Charles Ives?
This is the name of the in-house studio band that recorded many Motown hits.
Who are The Funk Brothers?
This singer of "That's All" (1938) was a queer woman of color, who blurred the lines between sacred and secular.
Who is Rosetta Tharpe?