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1. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Les Paul
Rock 'n' Roll
Bessie Smith
Hook
2. The most significant single figure to emerge in country music during the immediate post-World War II period. Williams wrote and sang many songs in the course of his brief career that were enormously popular with country audiences at the time; between
Hank Williams
Major/Minor
Tin Pan Alley
Benny Goodman
3. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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4. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
A cappella
R&B
phrase
5. 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
Phil Spector
motive
Tin Pan Alley
6. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Gene Autry
Ragtime
Producer
Jerry Lee Lewis
7. 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.
Beat
Janis Joplin
Texture
Frank Sinatra
8. 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
Ray Charles
Hook
Timbre
The Beatles
9. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Standards
Cover version
Bel canto
10. Bandleader for the most successful dance orchestra of the 1920s. He billed himself as the 'King of Jazz -' widened the market for jazz-based dance music - and paved the way for the Swing Era.
Blues
12-bar Blues
Acoustic recording
Paul Whiteman
11. 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
Cakewalk
Chorus
A cappella
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
12. 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
Acoustic recording
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Bluegrass
Concept album
13. 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.
Janis Joplin
12-bar Blues
Janis Joplin
Tempo
14. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Chuck Berry
Payola
Aretha Franklin
15. 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
Classic blues
R&B
Payola
Bob Dylan
16. A person who writes the words for songs
Cakewalk
Lyricist
Blues
AABA form
17. Born in New Orleans; a cornetist and singer - he established certain core features of jazz - particularly its rhythmic drive and its emphasis on solo instrumental virtuosity. Armstrong also profoundly influenced the development of mainstream popular
Louis Armstrong
Phil Spector
Frank Sinatra
Ethel Merman
18. 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
Hook
Refrain
Duke Ellington
Syncopation
19. '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.
Bridge
Tempo
Minstrel Show
Cole Porter
20. 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.
Scott Joplin
ASCAP
Standards
The Rolling Stones
21. 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.
Herman Parker
Cakewalk
Ethel Merman
Lyrics
22. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Elvis Presley
Glenn Miller
Refrain
23. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
soul music
sound
Payola
Beat
24. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Polyphonic
A cappella
Rock 'n' Roll
The Supremes
25. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Lyricist
Concept album
Beat
Motown
26. 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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27. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
Louis Armstrong
Syncopation
Phil Spector
28. 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.
Nashville sound
Bel canto
Timbre
Buddy Holly
29. 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.
Big Band
Reverb
The Supremes
AABA form
30. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Refrain
Syncopation
The Beatles
Ethel Merman
31. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Chorus
Ray Charles
Diana Ross
Bob Dylan
32. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
Les Paul
Louis Armstrong
Acoustic recording
33. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Bel canto
A cappella
Cakewalk
34. 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
Ethel Merman
R&B
Scott Joplin
Bridge
35. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
sound
motive
Tin Pan Alley
Texture
36. 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
Glenn Miller
Bridge
Bessie Smith
soul music
37. Chord - consonance - dissonance
George Gershwin
Ethel Merman
Refrain
Harmony
38. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Electric Guitar
The Supremes
Irving Berlin
39. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Major/Minor
Hook
Buddy Holly
40. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Arranger
'The twist'
R&B
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
motive
Bessie Smith
Race Records
Ray Charles
42. 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
Chuck Berry
Refrain
Phil Spector
Form
43. 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
Duke Ellington
Cover version
Verse
Hank Williams
44. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
AABA form
Race Records
Rockabilly
45. '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.
Minstrel Show
Aretha Franklin
Refrain
Phil Spector
46. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Crooning
Duke Ellington
Boogie Woogie
Hook
47. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Strophic
Countrypolitan
ASCAP
48. 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
Gene Autry
Motown
Banjo
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
49. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Janis Joplin
Ray Charles
Sheet music
Timbre
50. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Frank Sinatra
Syncopation
Arranger
Sheet music
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