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performing-arts
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1. 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.
Bel canto
The Beatles
Chuck Berry
Countrypolitan
2. '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.
Boogie Woogie
ASCAP
Jerry Lee Lewis
Aretha Franklin
3. 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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Supremes
Frank Sinatra
Ragtime
4. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Cakewalk
Strophic
Texture
Bob Dylan
5. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
12-bar Blues
Bob Dylan
Classic blues
Countrypolitan
6. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Electronic recording
Rock 'n' Roll
Timbre
Diana Ross
7. 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
Nashville sound
Beach Boys
Race Records
Major/Minor
8. Singer - songwriter - and harmonica player who achieved some success with his R&B band - Little Junior's Blue Flames; recorded 'Mystery Train' for Sam Phillips's Sun label.
Refrain
A cappella
Herman Parker
Scott Joplin
9. 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
The Beatles
Form
Benny Goodman
Nashville sound
10. 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
Scott Joplin
Concept album
Duke Ellington
Refrain
11. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Bob Dylan
Polyphonic
Classic blues
Sheet music
12. 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.
Nashville sound
Sheet music
AABA form
phrase
13. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
ASCAP
A cappella
Refrain
Lyricist
14. 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.
Electronic recording
AABA form
Scat singing
Ray Charles
15. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Lyrics
Electronic recording
sound
Chorus
16. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Diana Ross
Ragtime
Producer
Jerry Lee Lewis
17. 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.
Bessie Smith
Cover version
Paul Whiteman
Verse
18. 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.
Ethel Merman
Producer
Bridge
Tempo
19. 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
Ballad
Electric Guitar
Elvis Presley
Major/Minor
20. 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.'
Rockabilly
Refrain
Brian Wilson
Duke Ellington
21. 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
urban folk
sound
Paul Whiteman
22. Blues piano tradition that sprang up during the early twentieth century in the 'southwest territory' states of Texas - Arkansas - Missouri - and Oklahoma. In boogie-woogie performances - the pianist typically plays a repeated pattern with his left ha
Reverb
Boogie Woogie
Brian Wilson
Producer
23. A short musical passage
Race Records
ASCAP
Classic blues
phrase
24. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Paul Whiteman
Harmony
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Brian Wilson
25. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Patsy Cline
Chorus
Dick Clark
26. 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.
Countrypolitan
Janis Joplin
Banjo
Motown
27. A recurrent rhythmical series
Duke Ellington
cadence
Harmony
Phil Spector
28. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Cover version
Melody
Diana Ross
29. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Polyphonic
Producer
Disc Jockeys
Crooning
30. 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.
Bel canto
Reverb
soul music
George Gershwin
31. The words of a song.
Standards
Lyrics
12-bar Blues
Janis Joplin
32. 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
'The twist'
Lyricist
Cole Porter
Major/Minor
33. 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
Chuck Berry
Ethel Merman
Verse
Classic blues
34. 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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35. 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.
Strophic
ASCAP
Janis Joplin
Standards
36. 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
Verse
The Beatles
Dick Clark
Blues
37. A recurrent rhythmical series
Beat
Lyricist
Melody
cadence
38. 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
Concept album
Disc Jockeys
Refrain
Bluegrass
39. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
The Beatles
Strophic
Ray Charles
Big Band
40. 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
Hank Williams
Elvis Presley
Syncopation
41. 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.
cadence
Patsy Cline
Lyrics
12-bar Blues
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
Les Paul
Frank Sinatra
Gene Autry
Cakewalk
43. 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.
Refrain
Rockabilly
Melody
Sheet music
44. 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.
R&B
Banjo
Cole Porter
The Supremes
45. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Beat
Ray Charles
Major/Minor
Rock 'n' Roll
46. 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.
Melody
phrase
Ethel Merman
Bridge
47. 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
Electric Guitar
R&B
Minstrel Show
Crooning
48. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Form
Race Records
soul music
Ray Charles
49. 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
Bluegrass
Harmony
12-bar Blues
Benny Goodman
50. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Bob Dylan
Nashville sound
Electric Guitar
Harmony