Musical Theater
American Revolution and Civil War
Genres #1
Genres #2
The 60's
100

Musicals about Americans, promoting racial or religious tolerance, and featuring soldiers or military men were prominent in this Age.

What is the Golden Age of Musical Theater?

100

The song Revolutionary Tea refers to this historical event.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

100

The city Dixieland music came from.

What is New Orleans?

100

This genre of music had extended solos, exotic instrumentation, and direct or indirect drug references.

What is Psychedelic Rock?

100

This was a legendary music festival that first took place in upstate New York in 1969 to promote peace, love, and music.

What is Woodstock?

200

These are the three main components of a musical.

What are the music, lyrics, and book?

200

This was meant to insult American Colonist soldiers who didn't have experience or supplies.

What was the original intent of Yankee Doodle?

200

A silent film was a good place to hear this style of music.

What is Ragtime?

200

This city is considered the center of Motown.

What is Detroit?

200

The Beatles are from this country.

What is the United Kingdom?

300

This musical featured a woman seeking to become a nun, changing her focus to becoming a wife and mother to 7 children.

What is the Sound of Music?

300

The Union and the Confederacy were the two sides.

Who fought in the Civil War?

300

African American Spirituals and Work songs evolved into this genre of music.

What is Blues?

300

This genre had heavy backbeats and syncopations with guitar, bass, and vocals that strongly appealed to teenagers.

What is Rock 'n Roll?

300

This genre combined folk, country and rock 'n roll elements with a hard backbeat and blues like vocals. 

What is Roots Rock?

400

These are the two main characters in the musical West Side Story.

Who are Tony and Maria?

400

The cross, cotton, the rebel flag (stars and bars), but NOT the Eagle.

What are symbols of the Southern Confederacy?

400

Rock and Roll is said to have originated from the mixing of these two styles.

What are Country and Blues?

400

This genre had soulful singing with a strong back beat and was dance music for urban black communities.

What is Rhythm and Blues (R&B)?

400

This genre included rock music with close vocal harmonies singing about the beach, girls, and the USA.

What is Surf Rock?

500

DAILY DOUBLE:

Name the 7 Von Trap Children

Liesel, Friedrick, Kurt, Louisa, Brigitta, Marta, Gretel 

500

A secret network of homes, people, and routes to assist runaway slaves to freedom.

What was the Underground Railroad?

500

This musical style originated in the school hallways, streets, and subways of urban communities in the 1950's and 60's.

What is Doo Wop?

500

This genre has a vocalist(s) sing with lax and ease accompanied by an orchestra or small combo.

What is Traditional Pop?

500

This genre had ballads and dance tunes featuring banjos, guitars, fiddles, harmonicas, and drum sets.

What is Country?