Rock and Disco Quiz

This artist/band created a whole character from space for their version of a concept album

• Pink Floyd

• The Beatles

• David Bowie

• Marvin Gaye

Dark Side of the Moon, one of the most successful albums of all time, was a concept album about madness. What band recorded Dark Side of the Moon?

• Pink Floyd

• Led Zepplin

• The Beatles

• Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

This Motown artist also got in on the concept album game with their album "What's Going On"

• Elton John

• David Bowie

• Dolly Parton

• Marvin Gaye

What is discotheque?

• A genre of dance music that comes from Europe

• A movie about dancing

• A well known venue where disco artists perform

• A European term for a dance club

Which of these artists/bands did not make disco music?

• Village People

• Donna Summers

• Dolly Parton

• The Bee Gees

Which of these bands/artists started their career to capitalize on the Disco craze?

• The Bee Gees

• Village People

• Gloria Gaynor

• Donna Summers

Disco became a mainstream genre thanks to the success of the film "Saturday Night Fever." True or False?

• True

• False

Which of these artists/bands made Beatles-inspired music before switching to Disco?

• The Bee Gees

• Village People

• Gloria Gaynor

• Donna Summer

Which one these statements is NOT one of the 5 overarching characteristic of a Disco hit?

• The BEAT!

• A slow, relaxed tempo

• Straightforward, repetitive song forms

• Straitforward subject matter and lyrics

• Limited harmonic vocabulary

Harmonic vocabulary is ​ ​ (a)  

• a language made up of sounds
• a term describing words in songs
• notes played on the harmonica
• the form of a song
• how fast a song is
• a combination of words used to create music