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Music by Letter - B

Can you identify these musical things that start with the letter B.
The previous quiz in this series can be found here (Quiz A)
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Last updated: December 10, 2019
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First submittedFebruary 18, 2017
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Scottish Highlands instrument
Bagpipes
Former "Destiny's Child" singer
Beyoncé
Period of music from approx. 1600-1750
Baroque
B.B. King's musical genre
Blues
Male voice between bass and tenor
Baritone
Street performer
Busker
"Love Shack" band
B-52's
Joel or Idol
Billy
Conductor's stick
Baton
Cellist's stick
Bow
"Don't Worry, be Happy" singer McFerrin
Bobby
Pop diva Spears
Britney
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Classical composers called
"The Three Bs"
Beethoven
Bach
Brahms
Band often abbreviated as BSB
Backstreet Boys
U2 album: "Achtung ____"
Baby
Double reed orchestral instrument
Bassoon
A metronome indicates this
Beat
Rossini opera "The ______ of Seville"
Barber
Brazilian music genre
Bossa Nova
Street for New York musicals
Broadway
Repetitive orchestral work by Ravel
Bolero
David Bowie's final album
Blackstar
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Level 68
Feb 18, 2017
Fantastic. From Bach to Backstreet Boys.
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Level 61
Mar 23, 2018
Definitely typed in “Bachstreet boys” the first time
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Level 66
Mar 23, 2018
I feel like someone should make pop-sounding mixes of classical music, and release them under this name.
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Level 62
Mar 23, 2018
Oh, it's been done...
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Level 65
Feb 18, 2017
23...didn't get bow for the cello! Wtf! Doh. Good quiz
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Level 65
Feb 19, 2017
Very nice! Am not a musical person, however, and left with 8.
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Level 86
Nov 29, 2017
Nice, but busker is a hard word to know when you're not a native english speaker.
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Level 79
Nov 29, 2017
I live about an hour from San Francisco where they have plenty of buskers, and I've never once heard that term.
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Level 69
Nov 30, 2017
I find that quite odd, since I'm from Slovenia and I've heard the term. I can't really tell you where, but it must have left an impression since I even remembered it.
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Level 75
Mar 23, 2018
I'm in the upper south US, and I've never heard of it. All I could think of for street performer was Bojangles, nickname of Bill Robinson who began his career that way. (Also tried Bye-Bye for Bowie's last album - it was worth a shot.)
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Level 25
Aug 23, 2018
i live in the UK and i have always called them buskers
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Level 77
Nov 30, 2017
I think I got it from Kingdom of Loathing, a game. Haven't really heard it otherwise. - But.. how can you have a music quiz with answers that start with B and not have a single Beatles question?
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Level 66
Mar 23, 2018
I know it from a silly song called "The Mexican Scotsman" by the band Enter the Haggis.
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Level 65
Aug 20, 2019
I ve heard it here first a few months/weeks ago. I only knew the term street performers (or -artists -musicians)
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Level 49
Mar 23, 2018
"Do you know your musical B's?"

"Beethoven, Bach..."

"Don't forget Brahms please!" - Beethoven's Wig 2

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Level 75
Mar 23, 2018
Wikipedia says that after the movie "10" came out, the Ravel estate received over a million dollars in royalties for that piece, making him the best-selling classical composer at the time. It's interesting what a single movie can do for a dead man's career.
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Level 76
Mar 23, 2018
Ah, Bach.
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Level 59
Aug 26, 2018
I'm partial to the fugue.
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Level 66
Dec 24, 2018
Always appreciate a good Radar O'Reilly reference
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Level 60
Mar 25, 2018
Perhaps 'busker' is a British term - is it? It's certainly the commonly used name for street musicians here.
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Level 60
Jan 15, 2023
Busker is commonly used in the US too.
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Level 21
Mar 26, 2019
I got all of them! Loved the quiz
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Level 52
Apr 14, 2021
oh so thats where the moaning rhythm heaven song got there name from, couldve been a little more original
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Level 64
Sep 5, 2021
Nice mix of questions. But really, a 'stick' for a cellist's bow? No, no, no! 😖
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Level 78
Nov 2, 2021
So how would you phrase it in the question?
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Level 67
Mar 17, 2023
The three B's question confused me, because I thought it was asking for Classical composers, not Baroque or Romantic composers.

Anyway, Bruckner would replace Bach if it were my list.

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Level 67
Mar 17, 2023
I hear the Terminator likes to impersonate dead composers - 'I'll be Bach'