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1. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Diana Ross
Big Band
Janis Joplin
soul music
2. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Paul Whiteman
Diana Ross
Lyricist
Irving Berlin
3. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Major/Minor
Concept album
Motown
cadence
4. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Chuck Berry
Syncopation
Producer
The Supremes
5. 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.
Melody
AABA form
Buddy Holly
Acoustic recording
6. Clarinetist and popular band leader; known as the 'King of Swing.' His popularity and the success of his band helped establish the swing era in the early 1930s. He was the first white bandleader to hire black musicians in his band
Polyphonic
motive
Gene Autry
Benny Goodman
7. 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.
Reverb
Refrain
The Supremes
George Gershwin
8. Early rock 'n' roll guitarist - singer - and songwriter from the country/rockabilly side of rock 'n' roll. Killed tragically at the age of twenty-two in a plane crash.
The Beatles
Buddy Holly
12-bar Blues
Boogie Woogie
9. Nickname for a stretch of 28th Street in New York City where music publishers had their offices—a dense hive of small rooms with pianos where composers and 'song pluggers' produced and promoted popular songs. The term - which evoked the clanging soun
Dick Clark
Tin Pan Alley
The Beatles
The Beatles
10. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
The Beatles
Chorus
A cappella
Frank Sinatra
11. A person who writes the words for songs
Classic blues
Boogie Woogie
Lyricist
Cakewalk
12. Behind-the-scenes role at a record company. Can be responsible for booking time in the recording studio - hiring backup singers and instrumentalists - assisting with the engineering process - and imprinting the characteristic sound of the finished re
Producer
Janis Joplin
Form
Irving Berlin
13. 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
The Beatles
Bessie Smith
George Gershwin
Acoustic recording
14. The son of an immigrant leatherworker - did much to bridge the gulf between art music and popular music. Studied European classical music but also spent a great deal of time listening to jazz musicians in New York City. Wrote Porgy and Bess (1935) -
Producer
12-bar Blues
Harmony
George Gershwin
15. The first successful singing cowboy; born in Texas - He was a successful film star and a popular country and western musician. Helped establish the 'western' component of country and western music. Developed a style designed to reach out to a broader
Dick Clark
Gene Autry
Electric Guitar
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
16. A style rooted in the venerable southern string band tradition. It combines the banjo - fiddle - mandolin - dobro - guitar - and acoustic bass with a vocal style often dubbed the 'high - lonesome sound.' The pioneer of bluegrass music was Bill Monroe
Rockabilly
Bluegrass
Standards
ASCAP
17. The B section of AABA song form found in the refrain of a Tin Pan Alley song. The bridge presents new material: a new melody - chord changes - and lyrics.
Bridge
Electronic recording
Bluegrass
Ray Charles
18. American popular songs from the Tin Pan Alley style of songwriting that remain an essential part of the repertoire of today's jazz musicians and pop singers.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Standards
Elvis Presley
cadence
19. The son of an immigrant leatherworker - did much to bridge the gulf between art music and popular music. Studied European classical music but also spent a great deal of time listening to jazz musicians in New York City. Wrote Porgy and Bess (1935) -
Lyricist
George Gershwin
Lyrics
Bob Dylan
20. 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
Producer
Texture
Buddy Holly
Cakewalk
21. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
Chorus
Glenn Miller
Motown
Minstrel Show
22. A version of a previously recorded performance; often an adaptation of the original's style and sensibility - and usually aimed at cashing in on its success.
Cover version
Aretha Franklin
Lyricist
George Gershwin
23. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
AABA form
Timbre
The Rolling Stones
Frank Sinatra
24. Beat - meter - syncopation
Melody
Rhythm
Standards
Acoustic recording
25. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Banjo
Form
Minstrel Show
Concept album
26. Founded in 1914 in an attempt to force all business establishments that featured live music to pay fees ('royalties') for the public use of music.
Lyrics
Tin Pan Alley
ASCAP
Standards
27. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
The Rolling Stones
Bel canto
Arranger
Disc Jockeys
28. 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.
Dick Clark
Bridge
Form
12-bar Blues
29. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Dick Clark
Paul Whiteman
R&B
30. Brilliantly clever and articulate lyricist and songwriter - fine rock 'n' roll vocal stylist - and pioneering electric guitarist. One of the first black musicians to consciously forge his own R&B styles for appeal to the mass market. Also known for h
Acoustic recording
Minstrel Show
Timbre
Chuck Berry
31. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
ASCAP
Gene Autry
Arranger
Tempo
32. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Bridge
Beat
Motown
Gene Autry
33. 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
Elvis Presley
Scott Joplin
Refrain
Melody
34. '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.
Major/Minor
Big Band
Melody
Tempo
35. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
AABA form
Gene Autry
Motown
Polyphonic
36. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Lyricist
Cole Porter
Concept album
Payola
37. A guitar whose sound comes chiefly from electro-magnetic amplification The pioneer of electric blues guitar was Aaron T-Bone Walker - whose urban blues recordings just after World War II were extremely popular - Les Paul created
Cakewalk
Polyphonic
Dick Clark
Electric Guitar
38. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Phil Spector
Race Records
motive
Scott Joplin
39. 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.
Dick Clark
12-bar Blues
Reverb
Buddy Holly
40. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Hook
Disc Jockeys
Refrain
Paul Whiteman
41. '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.
Louis Armstrong
Polyphonic
Tempo
Buddy Holly
42. 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.
Lyrics
The Beatles
Frank Sinatra
Ray Charles
43. The B section of AABA song form found in the refrain of a Tin Pan Alley song. The bridge presents new material: a new melody - chord changes - and lyrics.
The Rolling Stones
Bridge
The Supremes
Rockabilly
44. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Lyrics
Jerry Lee Lewis
Hank Williams
Buddy Holly
45. A technique used by opera singers that emphasizes breath control - a fluid and relaxed voice - and the use of subtle variations in pitch and rhythmic phrasing for dramatic effect.
R&B
George Gershwin
Bel canto
Chorus
46. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
sound
Sheet music
Irving Berlin
Diana Ross
47. 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.
Diana Ross
Janis Joplin
Bob Dylan
Cole Porter
48. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Herman Parker
Syncopation
Producer
49. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Electronic recording
ASCAP
Scat singing
Les Paul
50. A type of song in which a series of verses telling a story - often about a historical event or personal tragedy - are sung to a repeating melody (this sort of musical form is called strophic).
Beach Boys
Louis Armstrong
Ballad
Classic blues
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