Question 1 _______________early Sun and RCA recordings are considered by many critics to be the pioneering sounds of rock and roll.
- Elvis Presley’s
Question 2 _______________was a pioneer of instrumental music which portrays a story or scene, such as his programmatic work The Four Seasons.
- Vivaldi
Question 3 Musician Ravi Shankar is a master of the _______________.
- sitar
Question 4 The route of his/her burial procession in Milan was said to have been lined by as many as 200,000 people.
- Giuseppe Verdi
Question 5 Compositions such as An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue established _______________________ as a leading figure in the symphonic jazz movement.
- George Gershwin
Question 6 In 1965, at the Newport Festival the term “folk rock” was created to describe the performance by _________________ .
- Bob Dylan
Question 7 _________________ regarded all sounds, including noise, as legitimate materials for his compositions.
- John Cage
Question 8 Duke Ellington is credited with composing approximately __________ songs.
- 2000
Question 9 Armstrong’s vocal improvisations using nonsense syllables is known as _________________.
- scatting
Question 10 The operas Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro were both written by ________________.
- Mozart
Question 11 Laurie Anderson is best described as ______________________.
- a performance artist
Question 12 At the premiere of his Ninth Symphony in 1824 ________________ was completely deaf.
- Beethoven
Question 13 Born in Mississippi, _________________ is the most influential bluesman of the 20th C.
- B.B. King
Question 14 In 1828 Clara Wieck Schumann made her public debut as a pianist at the age of ______.
- nine
Question 15 ____________________ died just a week after his final performance at Birdland, a club named in his honor.
- Charlie Parker
Question 16 In the 1920’s __________________was known as the “Empress of the Blues”.
- Bessie Smith
Question 17 Pete Seeger was part of the folk ensemble the _______________.
- Weavers
Question 18 Miles Davis is primarily associated with what kind of music?
- Jazz
Question 19 Between 1915 and 1923, __________________ stopped composing, devoting himself to the formulation of his twelve-tone theory of composition.
- Arnold Schoenberg
Question 20 One section of Fantasia, the pioneering 1940 animated film from the Disney Studios, is based on the score of The Rite of Spring by _______________.
- Stravinsky