Early Inventions
This early invention captured sound with a needle and tinfoil.
What is the phonograph?
This social event involved music played live, while attendees watched a screen.
The pulse of the music, or of your heart.
What is the beat, or the tempo?
The CRBC required that at least 60% of music played on the radio was this.
What is Canadian?
What is Video Killed the Radio Star?
The version of this instrument from 1937 may have been louder, but this instrument has been around for hundreds of years.
What is the guitar?
This cultural phenomenon involved guitars, spoons, singing, and pretty much anything else people could find!
What is a Kitchen Party?
Notes organized horizontally to make a tune.
What is melody?
The CRBC banned many songs from the United States for this reason.
What is their lyrical content? (slang, drugs, and/or suggestive content)
This song, originally played by Big Mama Thornton was brought to further prominence, and later more attributed to, Elvis Presley.
What is Hound Dog?
This invention brought many stars to prominence, seen by people who would have never seen them otherwise.
What is TV Music Variety Shows?
Families used to sit in their living room, listening to this musical thing together.
What is the radio?
The vertical organization of notes, and how they combine together?
What is harmony?
What is rent time from a station?
What was the name of the boy in Chuck Berry's song about a country boy who played the guitar?
What is Johnny (B. Goode)?
This invention allowed for singers to develop new singing styles, such as crooning and softer vocal tones.
What is the (condenser) microphone?
Radio stars were popular, but this 1981 television phenomenon may have reduced their impact.
What is MTV?
A pattern of sounds, beats, and silence.
What is rhythm?
In order to use the radio in the 1930s, each household had to do what for the CRBC?
What is pay a fee? ($2 at the time)
Which song by the Bee Gees could be a good choice to help you with CPR?
What is Stayin' Alive?
What is multi-track recordings?
This TV show featured musical artists like Ella Fitzgerald, the Beatles, and Elvis.
What is the Ed Sullivan Show?
The technical name for when notes clash and create tension
What is dissonance?
The question most of you got wrong on the quiz ;) Where were early radio signals sent alongside?
The song "Swiss Moonlight Lullaby" by Wilf Carter, featured this perhaps 'alpine' singing style.
What is yodeling?