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100
Sung nonsense syllables, possibly from a forgotten language.
What are vocables?
100
A kind of song performed when people need to synchronize their movements.
What is a work song?
100
An African-American religious song usually sung a cappella.
What is a spiritual?
100
It uses notes shaped like triangles and squares to indicate harmonies to be sung.
What is "shape note" or "sacred harp" singing?
100
The place where the Grand Ole Opry got its start.
What is Nashville, Tennessee?
200
In Native American music, this is represented by the drum.
What is a heartbeat?
200
It was a parlor instrument invented by Ben Franklin.
What was a glass armonica?
200
Music that is traditionally passed down from generation to generation through an oral (sung) tradition.
What is folk music?
200
It typically has 12 bars and uses a flatted seventh in a I, IV, V chord progression.
What is the blues?
200
The singing group that first made spirituals popular in a concert setting.
Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
300
In Native American culture, this instrument is traditionally used to court a lady
What is the flute?
300
This keyboard instrument was the forerunner of the piano and its keys were plucked instead of hammered.
What is a harpsichord?
300
A song that tells a story.
What is a ballad?
300
It grew out of combining the blues form with traditional hymns.
What is gospel music?
300
It was one of the very first record players ever sold and you had to wind it up.
What was the Victrola?
400
An intertribal celebration that celebrates Native American music, dance, food, arts and crafts
What is a powwow?
400
Percussion instruments that were found in forests and fields and used to create dance music.
What are bones?
400
A song of praise sung to God or written about God that is composed in verse form.
What is a hymn?
400
This musical term means to make up music on the spot.
What is improvisation?
400
He was considered to be the "father of gospel music".
Who is Tommy Dorsey?
500
He is a world-famous Native American flute player known for combining traditional music with contemporary instruments in a rock opera form.
Who is Robert Mirobal?
500
A group of players who knew how to make music while on the move.
What is a militia band?
500
When a song leader sings a phrase and other singers echo it.
What is "lining out" or "call and response" form?
500
Johnny Cash and Jimmie Rogers were early songwriters of this kind of music.
What is country music?
500
It is a beautiful, sad song with an ancient Celtic melody sung about the men who fought in the Revolutionary War.
What is "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier"?