Roots Music Quiz

Chords used in the twelve-bar blues.

Music that is traditionally passed down from generation to generation through an oral (sung) tradition

This musical term means to make up music on the spot

Typically has 12 measures and uses a flatted third and seventh note

A Colonial-period instrument invented by Ben Franklin

Johnny Cash and Jimmie Rogers were early songwriters of this kind of music

An early African-American religious song, usually sung acapella

A flute often used in a marching band that sounds an octave higher than written

It uses notes shaped like triangles and squares to indicate harmonies to be sung - another name for shape-note singing

A song of praise to God in verse form

The place where the Grand Ole Opry got its start as a radio show

Percussion instruments that were found in forests and fields and were used to create dance music

A kind of song often used to synchronize movements and lift spirits

This keyboard instrument was the forerunner of the piano and its keys were plucked instead of hammered

When a song leader sings a line and other singers echo it

"Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier" is a beautiful song with an ancient Celtic melody about the men who fought in which war?

He was known as "The March King".

It was one of the very first record players ever sold and you had to wind it up

People who sang to synchronize their movements while they built and repaired railroad tracks

The name of our national march.

The singing group that first made spirituals popular in a concert setting

Music that combined spirituals with hymns in an upbeat style

He was considered to be the "Father of Gospel Music"

In the Colonial period, a group of musicians who could play while marching

A song that tells a story