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Music
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1. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ethel Merman
Big Band
Refrain
2. A recurrent rhythmical series
Harmony
Arranger
AABA form
cadence
3. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
The Rolling Stones
Gene Autry
Crooning
Chorus
4. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Disc Jockeys
The Beatles
Diana Ross
5. The 'Godfather of Soul.' He was known for his acrobatic physicality and remarkable charisma on stage. No other single musician has proven to be as influential on the sound and style of black music as James Brown.
Irving Berlin
Form
Beat
James Brown
6. Vigorous form of country and western music informed by the rhythms of black R&B and electric blues. Exemplified by artists such as Carl Perkins and the young Elvis Presley.
The Rolling Stones
Rockabilly
Dick Clark
Bob Dylan
7. The most successful white blues singer of the 1960s. Born in Port Arthur - Texas - Joplin came to San Francisco in the mid-1960s and joined a band called Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Benny Goodman
phrase
Chuck Berry
Janis Joplin
8. Usually sets up a dramatic context or emotional tone. Although verses were the most important part of nineteenth-century popular songs - they were regarded as mere introductions by the 1920s - and today the verses of Tin Pan Alley songs are infrequen
Verse
'The twist'
phrase
The Beatles
9. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Major/Minor
Electronic recording
Acoustic recording
Ray Charles
10. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Chuck Berry
Arranger
Payola
Sheet music
11. One of the most common structures that Tin Pan Alley composers used to organize their melodic and harmonic material. This structure would be found in the refrain of a verse-refrain song.
Dick Clark
AABA form
Cole Porter
Harmony
12. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Boogie Woogie
Race Records
Benny Goodman
Melody
13. Four- or five-stringed instrument with a membrane stretched over a wooden or metal hoop that is strummed or plucked. It was developed by slave musicians from African prototypes during the early colonial period. The banjo was used in the music of the
Cover version
Classic blues
Banjo
Big Band
14. Style of folk music that grew in popularity in the burgeoning New York folk scene during the 1960s. It included artists such as Bob Dylan.
phrase
Hook
urban folk
Beach Boys
15. Trombonist and bandleader; formed his own band in 1937. Miller developed a peppy - clean-sounding style that appealed to small-town Midwestern people as well as to the big-city - East and West Coast constituency.
James Brown
Rhythm
Glenn Miller
Electric Guitar
16. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
motive
Form
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bessie Smith
17. Black female vocal group who were featured artists with Motown Records in the 1960s. Their song 'You Can't Hurry Love' was a Number One hit in 1966.
Ragtime
Standards
The Supremes
phrase
18. The scale systems central to Western music; a series of pitches organized in a specific order of whole- and half-step intervals. The major scale can give music a feeling of openness and brightness - whereas a minor scale can give music the feeling of
Arranger
Hook
Major/Minor
Scott Joplin
19. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Frank Sinatra
Reverb
The Rolling Stones
soul music
20. The 'Godfather of Soul.' He was known for his acrobatic physicality and remarkable charisma on stage. No other single musician has proven to be as influential on the sound and style of black music as James Brown.
Aretha Franklin
Diana Ross
'The twist'
James Brown
21. Short for reverberation. An effect produced with an electronic device that adds a time delay to a sound and then adds it back to the signal.
Ragtime
Dick Clark
Nashville sound
Reverb
22. Africanized version of the European quadrille (a kind of square dance). The cakewalk was developed by slaves as a parody of the 'refined' dance movements of the white slave owners
Standards
Cakewalk
Gene Autry
Banjo
23. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Motown
Lyricist
Minstrel Show
Chorus
24. Popularly known as the 'Mother of the Blues -' was the first of the great women blues singers and had a direct influence on Bessie Smith.
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25. The leader and guiding spirit of the Beach Boys during their first decade. He wrote and produced many of the Beach Boys' biggest hits - including 'Good Vibrations.'
Disc Jockeys
Brian Wilson
Duke Ellington
Reverb
26. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Ballad
Blues
Reverb
27. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Aretha Franklin
Melody
Standards
Timbre
28. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Harmony
Refrain
Strophic
29. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Acoustic recording
Hank Williams
Dick Clark
Cole Porter
30. The standard form of a blues song: a twelve-bar structure made up of three phrases of four bars each; a basic three-chord pattern; and a three-line AAB text.
R&B
Verse
Ethel Merman
12-bar Blues
31. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Herman Parker
Minstrel Show
Countrypolitan
32. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
Major/Minor
James Brown
Jerry Lee Lewis
33. Founded in California in 1961 - they popularized the 'California sound' in the early 1960s. Their hit songs included 'Surfin' Safari -' 'Surfer Girl -' 'California Girls -' 'Surfin' USA' and 'Good Vibrations.'
Banjo
Beach Boys
Les Paul
Polyphonic
34. Vigorous form of country and western music informed by the rhythms of black R&B and electric blues. Exemplified by artists such as Carl Perkins and the young Elvis Presley.
Arranger
Banjo
Rockabilly
Paul Whiteman
35. Rock group from Liverpool - England - who dominated American popular music during the mid-1960s and started the 'British Invasion.' The band included John Lennon and George Harrison on lead and rhythm guitars and vocals - Paul McCartney on bass and v
Refrain
The Beatles
soul music
Ragtime
36. 'Time' in Italian; the rate at which a musical composition proceeds - regulated by the speed of the beats or pulse to which it is performed.
James Brown
Disc Jockeys
Tempo
Ragtime
37. Born in Hoboken New Jersey into a working-class Italian family. His singing style combined the crooning style of Bing Crosby with the bel canto technique of Italian opera.
Hook
Elvis Presley
R&B
Frank Sinatra
38. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
motive
Payola
Syncopation
Bluegrass
39. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Refrain
Hook
12-bar Blues
40. Motive - phrase - cadence
Electronic recording
Rock 'n' Roll
Gene Autry
Melody
41. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
George Gershwin
Payola
Beat
AABA form
42. Pianist - composer - arranger - and bandleader; widely regarded as one of the most important American musicians of the twentieth century. As a composer and arranger - he devised unusual musical forms - combined instruments in unusual ways - and creat
Duke Ellington
Bel canto
Rock 'n' Roll
The Beatles
43. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Gene Autry
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Chuck Berry
44. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
The Rolling Stones
Nashville sound
Rock 'n' Roll
motive
45. Africanized version of the European quadrille (a kind of square dance). The cakewalk was developed by slaves as a parody of the 'refined' dance movements of the white slave owners
Beat
Cakewalk
Ragtime
Patsy Cline
46. Style of folk music that grew in popularity in the burgeoning New York folk scene during the 1960s. It included artists such as Bob Dylan.
urban folk
The Beatles
Standards
motive
47. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Scat singing
Beach Boys
Beach Boys
48. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Countrypolitan
Beat
Texture
Benny Goodman
49. A recurrent rhythmical series
Ethel Merman
Chuck Berry
cadence
Beat
50. African American composer and pianist; the best-known composer of ragtime music. Between 1895 and 1915 - Joplin composed many of the classics of the ragtime repertoire and helped popularize the style through his piano arrangements - published as shee
Countrypolitan
Nashville sound
Refrain
Scott Joplin