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1. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Classic blues
Major/Minor
Beat
Elvis Presley
2. 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
Cakewalk
Bob Dylan
R&B
12-bar Blues
3. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
The Rolling Stones
Lyrics
Disc Jockeys
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
4. 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.
Elvis Presley
Concept album
urban folk
Refrain
5. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Scott Joplin
Herman Parker
AABA form
6. 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
Major/Minor
cadence
Boogie Woogie
Refrain
7. 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).
Texture
Ballad
cadence
Tempo
8. 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
Irving Berlin
Paul Whiteman
Louis Armstrong
urban folk
9. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Polyphonic
Harmony
Ethel Merman
Ray Charles
10. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Refrain
Payola
Crooning
Bessie Smith
11. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
12-bar Blues
Diana Ross
Bridge
Payola
12. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Standards
Disc Jockeys
Concept album
Louis Armstrong
13. Dubbed the 'first tycoon of teen -' his studio production techniques are known as the 'wall of sound' because of his utilization of dense orchestrations - multiple instruments - and heavy reverb.
Reverb
Rock 'n' Roll
phrase
Phil Spector
14. '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.
Beach Boys
Nashville sound
Polyphonic
Tempo
15. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Disc Jockeys
Electronic recording
Acoustic recording
Jerry Lee Lewis
16. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Texture
Chuck Berry
Countrypolitan
17. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Boogie Woogie
Aretha Franklin
Jerry Lee Lewis
Hook
18. The words of a song.
Janis Joplin
'The twist'
Lyrics
Bessie Smith
19. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
Tin Pan Alley
Bob Dylan
Cole Porter
20. 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.
Glenn Miller
Hank Williams
Tin Pan Alley
Polyphonic
21. 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
cadence
Nashville sound
Electric Guitar
Benny Goodman
22. 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
motive
sound
Harmony
23. 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.
The Beatles
Janis Joplin
Herman Parker
Rockabilly
24. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Patsy Cline
Major/Minor
Harmony
Bob Dylan
25. 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
Disc Jockeys
cadence
Minstrel Show
Standards
26. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Janis Joplin
The Beatles
Electronic recording
Disc Jockeys
27. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Brian Wilson
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Hook
Syncopation
28. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
ASCAP
Bridge
Nashville sound
29. 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.'
AABA form
Banjo
Melody
Bob Dylan
30. 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.
Polyphonic
Louis Armstrong
Beat
Herman Parker
31. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
sound
Form
motive
32. 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
Crooning
Glenn Miller
Tempo
33. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Sheet music
R&B
Timbre
Frank Sinatra
34. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Electric Guitar
cadence
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
35. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Hank Williams
Arranger
Boogie Woogie
Payola
36. 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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37. 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.
AABA form
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Nashville sound
Diana Ross
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
Hank Williams
Elvis Presley
motive
Blues
39. 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
Aretha Franklin
Ray Charles
Ragtime
40. The words of a song.
Glenn Miller
Nashville sound
Aretha Franklin
Lyrics
41. 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
James Brown
Les Paul
Producer
Hank Williams
42. 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
Polyphonic
Jerry Lee Lewis
Chorus
43. 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
Race Records
Jerry Lee Lewis
Cakewalk
Scott Joplin
44. '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.
Benny Goodman
James Brown
Tempo
Hank Williams
45. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
Motown
Scat singing
Timbre
46. 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) -
George Gershwin
Gene Autry
Irving Berlin
Refrain
47. 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
Ragtime
Gene Autry
Boogie Woogie
Phil Spector
48. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
Diana Ross
R&B
Jerry Lee Lewis
49. 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.
Melody
12-bar Blues
Syncopation
Race Records
50. 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
sound
Rock 'n' Roll
Buddy Holly
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