It's Jazz!
In the 1930s and 40s, this style of big band jazz got people dancing in ballrooms, with bandleaders like Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.
Swing
This Canadian artist's song "Blinding Lights" became the most-streamed song on Spotify of all time
The Weekend
This time signature is the most common in music
4/4
This artist’s nephew was cast as the lead in a biographical film about his uncle.
Michael Jackson
This 1998 power ballad by the Goo Goo Dolls, written for the City of Angels soundtrack, features the lyric, "And I'd give up forever to touch you."
Iris
Made famous by groups like The Manhattan Transfer and New York Voices, this style features singers mimicking jazz instruments with nonsense syllables (like "doo-bop-sha-bam")—a technique pioneered by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
Scat
After years of being a "child of Disney," this singer dominated the music industry in 2024
Sabrina Carpenter
This musical term is a descriptive term of "volume"
Dynamics
Name any 2 members of the pop group Queen
Any two from Freddy Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon
This was the age when Mozart when he wrote his first symphony?
8
Emerging in the late 1940s and 50s, this smoother, more relaxed West Coast style was a reaction to the fast, complex sound of bebop
Cool jazz
This British artist sparked a "Lime Green" summer trend in 2024 with the release of her critically acclaimed album
Charli XCX
Often associated with a "darker" or "sad" sound, this musical ladder comes in natural, harmonic, and melodic flavors.
Minor Scale
This artist's song from 2017 was featured in the movie Project Hail Mary
Harry Styles
Released in 1976, this Grammy Award winning song is known for its two minute electric guitar solo
Hotel California
In the late 1960s, jazz musicians started using electric pianos, synthesizers, and rock drumming to create this controversial but influential genre, popularized by Miles Davis.
Jazz Fusion
Consisting of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, this throwback R&B 'supergroup' swept the 2022 Grammys with their hit 'Leave the Door Open'
Silk Sonic
This four-note chord, built from a major triad with a minor seventh, is the most common chord in jazz and blues, often notated as C7 or G7.
Dominant Seventh Chord
This modern composer is well known for his music in famous Hollywood movies such as The Dark Knight, Dune and Prince of Egypt
Hans Zimmer
This song released in 1968 is now the signature anthem for England midfielder Jude Bellingham
Hey Jude
Released in 1959, this is the best-selling jazz album of all time and features the track “So What.”
Kind of Blue
Name one artist that produced the movie soundtrack for Spiderman: Across the Spider-verse
Daniel Pemberton, Metro Boomin, and Neverm1nd
This note is located on the second line from the top of the staff (the fourth line up from the bottom) in tenor clef
B flat
This legendary rock n roller met his demise while sitting on the toilet
Elvis Presley
This Hong Kong oldie is based off the spirit of hard-working Hong Kongers in 1979 by Roman Tam and blew up during 2003 SARS outbreak
獅子山下 （Below the Lion Rock)