Film Music
Which film composer wrote the scores to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies?
Hans Zimmer
Who was the original "Material Girl"?
Madonna
How many notes are included in a chromatic scale?
12
What singer is known as the "Empress of the Blues"?
Bessie Smith
Which Johnny Cash song did an advertising company want to use for a hemorrhoids ad?
Ring of Fire
Which film composer wrote the score to the movie "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring"?
Howard Shore
Which rapper is famous for wearing parachute pants?
MC Hammer
What type of triad consists of two major thirds?
Augmented
Known as "the Divine One," who won an amateur singing contest as a teenager and quickly became a leading jazz vocalist?
Sarah Vaughan
What is the longest running stage musical?
The off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, opened on May 3, 1960 and finally closed on January 13, 2002, having been performed a record 17,162 times at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, Greenwich Village, New York.
Which film composer wrote the music to this 1997 box office hit starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet?
James Horner
What was the first rock-n-roll song to hit #1 on the charts?
The first rock 'n' roll song to hit #1 was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets. It held the top spot for 8 weeks.
What is the root of this fully diminished 7th chord? A, E, F#, C
F#
At the turn of the 20th century, the term "jazz" was used interchangeably with what other musical style?
Ragtime
What is the oldest surviving instrument? Hint: we play these in band
Flute
An ancient bone flute, estimated to be about 43,000-82,000 years old, was found by Dr Ivan Turk, a palaeontologist at the Slovenian Academy of Science at a Neanderthal campsite in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1998. The oldest known musical instrument, it is made of an old cavebear femur segment with four holes (two complete and two partial).
Which 1970's film included the song "Age of Aquarius"?
Hair
What band did Jimi Hendrix tour with in 1967?
Jimi managed to get through a total of only seven dates with the Monkees, culminating in his final show on July 17, 1967, which may or may not have ended with Hendrix saluting the crowd with his middle finger.
Identify the quality of this chord.
minor 7th
The most famous jazz nightclub in Harlem was called:____________________.
The Cotton Club
What instrument is used by the indigenous people of Australia to accompany ceremonial dancing and singing?
The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today. It is often used to accompany ceremonial dancing and singing.
In which James Bond movie was the title song performed by Paul and Linda McCartney?
Live and Let Die
What was the name of the airplane Buddy Holly died in?
The airplane that Buddy Holly died in was named American Pie. Don McLean would later write a song about the accident with the same title. The single was a number-one hit in the U.S. for four weeks in 1972.
Which pitch would be the bass note of a V7 chord in 3rd inversion in the key of Gb major?
Cb
In 1997, the jazz composition "Blood on the Fields" became the first non-classical piece to win a Pulitzer Prize in music. Who composed it?
Wynton Marsalis
What are the names of Mrs. Young's two cats?
Darby and Sir Duke