Study Guide
Test on Key Signatures and Popular music chapter 2
Use your yellow circle of keys to locate the following key
signatures. Indicate the number of sharps and flats and
their names in order.
Example:
Key of “G” has 1 sharp(s)
They are F#
Key of “D” has 2 sharp(s)
They are F# and C#
Key of “A” has 3 sharp(s)
They are F#, C#, G#
Key of “E” has 4 sharp(s)
They are F#, C#, G#, D#
Key of “B” has 5 sharp(s)
They are F#, C#, G#, D#, A#,
Key of “F#” has 6 sharps
They are F#, C#, G#, D#, A# E#
Key of “C#” has 7 sharp(s)
They are F#, C#, G#, D#, A#, E#, B#
Key of “C” has no sharps or flats
Key of “F” has 1 flat(s)
They are B flat
Key of “Bflat ” has 2 flat(s)
They are Bflat and Eflat
Key of “Eflat ” has 3 flat(s)
They are Bflat, Eflat, Aflat
Key of “Aflat ” has 4 flat(s)
They are Bflat, Eflat, Aflat, Dflat
Key of “Dflat” has 5 flats
They are Bflat, Eflat, Aflat,Dflat,Gflat
Key of “Gflat ” has 6 flat(s)
They are Bflat, Eflat, Aflat, Dflat, Gflat, Cflat
Key of “Cflat” has 7 flat(s)
They are Bflat, Eflat,Aflat,Dflat, Gflat, Cflat, Fflat
Pop Music Review
Pop music definition:
 Lyrics-Trite and shallow
 Echo-the sentiments or feelings of a generation
Minstrel show:
 Elements-Variety show of singing, dancing and comedy
Popular Music styles of 1800:
 Lively-Banjo dance music
 Sentimental-Ballads slow songs that express emotions
Early Musical Theater
 Operettas-Precursor or prior to the Broadway Musical
 Jerome Kern’s musical-Showboat was ground breaking
because it used a plot and and character development.
Piano Styles
 Ragtime-piano music that sounds like a banjo
 Boogie-woogie-the bass part has a rolling sound
 Stride-the bass is played in octaves
Other musicals
 Sound of Music
 South Pacific
 Oklahoma
 King and I
Tin Pan Alley
 Where?-New York City
 What sold and how?-Sold songs by demonstrating
them live in store front windows
How was recording accomplished?
 By shouting into a horn and the force of that
directed a needle to etch grooves into some wax.
How did people enjoy radio two ways?
 Listening live and replaying it on the jukebox
People to know:
George M. Cohan
 Wrote “Over there” as a song that echoed the
sentiments of the generation during World War II.
George was also the “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
Jerome Kern
 Wrote “Showboat” and other sentimental songs.
Benny Goodman
 Swing band leader who kicked of the Swing jazz
era.
Rogers and Hammerstein
 Wrote musicals many are listed above- ie Sound of
Music, South Pacific…..