MUSIC of the STATES: TENNESSEE Take This Short Quiz to Test Your Knowledge on the Music of Tennessee

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STUDENT QUIZ MUSIC OF THE STATES: TENNESSEE Take this short quiz to test your knowledge on the music of Tennessee.

Q1: What are the three Tennessee cities with deep music history?

Q2: What is the Grand Old Opry?

Q3: Who is Vernon Dalhart?

Q4: What were the Bristol Sessions?

Q5: What two famous country musicians were part of the Bristol Sessions?

Q6: Which city is known as “Music City, U.S.A.”?

Q7: Which city is known as “the birthplace of rock and roll”?

Q8: Which city is known as “the birthplace of country music”?

Q9: What two genres are combined in the “Nashville sound”?

Q10: Who wrote “St. Louis Blues”?

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STUDENT QUIZ

READING, WRITING AND RHYTHM Take this quick quiz to test your knowledge on rhythm.

Q1: How do musicians express themselves other than timbre and pitch?

Q2: What type of instrument are African musical rhythms traditionally played upon?

Q3: What element of a piece of music indicates the beat?

Q4: What types of notes have flags on them?

Q5: What joins flagged notes together when they are played one after another?

Q6: What type of notation is used to indicate playing of three notes in the same amount of time that would normally be given to two?

Q7: What famous movie’s theme song features triplets?

Q8: What are the two ways of lengthening note values in standard music notation?

Q9: Can you add a dot to a rest?

Q10: As opposed to pitches, what do the lines and spaces on a drum set staff epresent?r

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STUDENT QUIZ THE JONAS BROTHERS Take this short quiz to test your knowledge on The Jonas Brothers.

Q1: What other boyband did the Jonas Brothers open for in 2005?

Q2: What position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart did “Burnin’ Up” place?

Q3: Who wrote “Burnin’ Up”?

Q4: How many years did the band breakup for?

Q5: Who was the first brother to begin his career in music?

Q6: What was the name of his first co-written and recorded song?

Q7: Who co-wrote it with him?

Q8: What Disney Channel movie did the Jonas Brothers star in?

Q9: What year did they announce their break-up?

Q10: What is the title of the first song they released as a reunited band?

STUDENT MUSIC OF THE STATES: TENNESSEE 1.Bristol, Nashville and Memphis 2.The most famous country music concert series in the QUIZ country, in Nashville 3.The first recorded country musician to sell one million ANSWERS records 4.A series of country music recordings by Ralph Peer in Bristol,Tennessee April 5.The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers 6.Nashville 7.Memphis 2019 8.Bristol 9.Pop and country 10.W.C. Handy

READING, WRITING AND RHYTHM

1.Through unique rhythms 2. Drums 3. The time signature 4. Eighth, sixteenth, and anything shorter 5. Bars 6.Tr ip l e t 7. Star Wars 8. Dots and ties 9. Yes 10. Voices

THE JONAS BROTHERS

1. The Backstreet Boys 2. No.5 3. All three brothers wrote the song together 4. Six 5. Nick 6. “JoyTo The World (A Christmas Prayer)” 7. His father 8. Camp Rock 9. 2012 10. “Sucker”

This month’s quizzes are also available at musicalive.com/the-quiz-zone-april-2019