N5 20th Century Popular Music Quiz

9) What type of music is performed by artists such as One Direction?

18) Which concept could be described as an electronic effect used to give the impression of different hall acoustics?

2) What is the fast, lively style of Jazz, played by the Big Bands of the 1930s and 1940s?

6) What type of music was Elvis Presley famous for?

15) Who was Scott Joplin?

7) What type of popular music uses a rhythmic form of speech and is part of Black culture?

1) What is a Walking Bass?

12) What is syncopation?

10) What is a type of lively Religious Music which originated in Black American culture?

13) What is distortion?

14) What is the term that describes pitch sliding from one note to another, usually on a keyboard or guitar?

16) What is improvisation?

3) What is a type of singing, popular in Jazz, where the voice is used to imitate an instrument?

8) What type of music is performed by bands like Metallica and Journey?

5) Which style of Jazz uses a 12 bar chord progression?

17) What is the name of a popular Swedish Pop Band of the 1970s / 80s?

11) What is a Middle 8)

4) What style of Jazz is composed, rather than improvised and is played mainly on the piano?