N5 20th Century Popular Music Quiz

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

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

13) What is distortion?

1) What is a Walking Bass?

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

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

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

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

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

15) Who was Scott Joplin?

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

11) What is a Middle 8)

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

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

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

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

12) What is syncopation?

16) What is improvisation?