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Music
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1. 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
Verse
Race Records
A cappella
2. 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.
Aretha Franklin
Reverb
The Rolling Stones
Blues
3. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Buddy Holly
Electronic recording
Tempo
Duke Ellington
4. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
urban folk
Big Band
cadence
ASCAP
5. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Electric Guitar
12-bar Blues
Strophic
6. 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.
Diana Ross
Phil Spector
Lyricist
Nashville sound
7. A short musical passage
Big Band
Arranger
phrase
Irving Berlin
8. A musical genre that emerged in black communities of the Deep South-especially the region from the Mississippi Delta to East Texas-sometime around the end of the nineteenth century
Blues
Beat
Bessie Smith
Glenn Miller
9. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Arranger
Phil Spector
Form
The Rolling Stones
10. Founder of Motown Records.
Blues
Janis Joplin
Bel canto
Berry Gordy - Jr.
11. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Tempo
Rock 'n' Roll
Crooning
soul music
12. 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.
Melody
Chorus
The Supremes
cadence
13. 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.
ASCAP
Bridge
Patsy Cline
Chorus
14. 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.
Hank Williams
Bridge
Polyphonic
Ragtime
15. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
Beat
Beach Boys
Janis Joplin
16. A person who writes the words for songs
Electronic recording
Scat singing
Lyricist
Aretha Franklin
17. 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.
motive
Irving Berlin
Cakewalk
urban folk
18. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
The Beatles
Rhythm
Polyphonic
Diana Ross
19. 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.
The Supremes
Payola
Motown
Timbre
20. African American musical genre that emerged after World War II. Consisted of a loose cluster of styles derived from black musical traditions - characterized by energetic and hard-swinging rhythms. At first performed exclusively by black musicians for
Rockabilly
James Brown
R&B
Big Band
21. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
'The twist'
Rockabilly
Timbre
Elvis Presley
22. 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.
Dick Clark
ASCAP
urban folk
Acoustic recording
23. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Brian Wilson
Ragtime
Refrain
24. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Refrain
'The twist'
Race Records
Beach Boys
25. 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.
Electric Guitar
Phil Spector
Nashville sound
Timbre
26. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Timbre
Bluegrass
ASCAP
Bob Dylan
27. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Benny Goodman
Classic blues
Brian Wilson
Rock 'n' Roll
28. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Lyrics
Acoustic recording
Concept album
Arranger
29. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Electric Guitar
Buddy Holly
Scat singing
Gene Autry
30. Called the 'Empress of the Blues -' She was born in Chattanooga - Tennessee - and performed in traveling shows and vaudeville before embarking on a recording career with Columbia Records. Her recordings include W. C. Handy's 'St. Louis Blues' and Irv
Boogie Woogie
Ballad
Bessie Smith
Beach Boys
31. Generally recognized as the most productive - varied - and creative of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters. His professional songwriting career started before World War I and continued into the 1960s. His most famous songs include 'Alexander's Ragtime Band
Glenn Miller
phrase
Concept album
Irving Berlin
32. Introduced as a commercial and marketing term in the mid-1950s for the purpose of identifying a new target audience for musical products. Encompassed a variety of styles and artists from R&B - country - and pop music.
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33. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Major/Minor
Herman Parker
sound
Cover version
34. 'The Queen of Soul -' she began singing gospel music at an early age and had several hit records with Atlantic - including 'Respect' in 1967 and 'Think' in 1968.
Gene Autry
Aretha Franklin
Strophic
Race Records
35. 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
Lyrics
Verse
R&B
Tin Pan Alley
36. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Buddy Holly
Duke Ellington
Dick Clark
Ballad
37. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
The Rolling Stones
Hank Williams
Payola
Berry Gordy - Jr.
38. A musical genre that emerged in black communities of the Deep South-especially the region from the Mississippi Delta to East Texas-sometime around the end of the nineteenth century
Blues
Producer
Irving Berlin
Bridge
39. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Cakewalk
AABA form
Louis Armstrong
40. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Melody
George Gershwin
Diana Ross
Beat
41. Called the 'Empress of the Blues -' She was born in Chattanooga - Tennessee - and performed in traveling shows and vaudeville before embarking on a recording career with Columbia Records. Her recordings include W. C. Handy's 'St. Louis Blues' and Irv
urban folk
Concept album
Bessie Smith
Buddy Holly
42. 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
Duke Ellington
Cakewalk
Janis Joplin
43. A person who writes the words for songs
Beat
cadence
Lyricist
Acoustic recording
44. 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
Syncopation
Brian Wilson
Harmony
The Beatles
45. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Bluegrass
ASCAP
Bridge
46. 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.'
Form
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
Beach Boys
47. Beat - meter - syncopation
Nashville sound
urban folk
Rhythm
Hook
48. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Scat singing
Scat singing
Beach Boys
Hook
49. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
urban folk
Disc Jockeys
Chuck Berry
ASCAP
50. Urban folk singer and songwriter; he took his stage name from his favorite poet - Dylan Thomas. His songs include hits such as 'Blowin' in the Wind -' 'Mr. Tambourine Man -' and 'Like a Rolling Stone.'
Cover version
Bob Dylan
sound
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey