Bringing Jazzy Back
This American city is considered the birthplace of Jazz?
New Orleans
Beethoven suffered from this affliction that made the composition of his 7th symphony extraordinary.
He was deaf
When the very first movies were created, technology was not advanced enough yet to sync motion with what other important element?
Sound
In which country was Rock and Roll created?
United States
What organ of the human body is the musical element of rhythm associated with?
Heart
What is the name of the style of music that originated in the United States and was the precursor to Jazz?
Ragtime
Which composer wrote the Opera “The Marriage of Figaro”?
Mozart
What is the instrumentation of the “Super Mario Theme”?
Synthesizer
What classical music genre did Freddy Mercury merge his rock hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” with?
Opera
What is the element of music that is generically defined as the series of notes that make up the tune of a song?
Melody
Which song by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is unique in Jazz history due to it’s unique time beat pattern?
Take 5
What is the name of the very first time period of “classical music”?
Medieval
What decade in the 20th century did video games originate?
1950’s
What odd number of beats is Pink Floyd’s hit “Money” written in?
7
One of the four basic elements of music is so named because the main instrument that provides the foundation of a piece of music is called this?
The bass
Which subset of Jazz is characterized by the incorporation of Rock elements such as the use of electronic bass, synthesizer and Rock beats?
Fusion
What instrument in Bach‘s “Toccata and Fugue” is frequently used to depict horror and villainy in movies and television?
The Organ
Once technological advances enabled sound to link up with motion in movies, what style of music was largely used by early film composers?
Symphonic scores
What is the name of the last era of Rock that originated in the 1990’s with bands such as Nirvana?
Reemergence
In the general form of a rock/pop song, what is the unique middle part of a song that is so called because it acts as a connector?
Bridge
In the Louis Armstrong recording of “All of Me“, name the four basic parts of the song’s form.
Head/tune, Vocal, Solo, Head/tune
What is the name of the piece that brought Jazz into the concert hall for the first time?
Rhapsody in Blue
Which time period of “classical music” was characterized by the invention and development of many of the instruments we know today in the modern symphony?
Baroque Era
Who is the principal songwriter of the song that is all about teenage wasteland called “Baba O’Riley?
Pete Townshend
When analyzing a pop/rock song, you can identify this specific section of the form because the melody and the words usually stay the same throughout the song.
The chorus