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1. 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.
Crooning
Herman Parker
Herman Parker
The Supremes
2. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Beat
Lyrics
Standards
Motown
3. 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
Cover version
Bridge
Blues
Payola
4. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Ballad
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Motown
The Rolling Stones
5. '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.
The Supremes
Beat
Acoustic recording
Aretha Franklin
6. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Rockabilly
Hook
Scat singing
Big Band
7. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Les Paul
Glenn Miller
Disc Jockeys
Strophic
8. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
The Beatles
sound
Race Records
Syncopation
9. 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
Rockabilly
Hook
The Rolling Stones
10. 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
Producer
Duke Ellington
phrase
motive
11. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Chuck Berry
Paul Whiteman
Classic blues
Jerry Lee Lewis
12. 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.'
Bob Dylan
Glenn Miller
Janis Joplin
Dick Clark
13. 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
Boogie Woogie
Acoustic recording
Producer
AABA form
14. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Verse
Major/Minor
Crooning
15. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Scat singing
Acoustic recording
Standards
Louis Armstrong
16. 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.
Form
Frank Sinatra
AABA form
Harmony
17. 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
R&B
James Brown
Bel canto
Hank Williams
18. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Glenn Miller
Disc Jockeys
Ethel Merman
cadence
19. The word derives from the African American term 'to rag -' meaning to enliven a piece of music by shifting melodic accents onto the offbeats (a technique known as syncopation). Ragtime music emerged in the 1880s - its popularity peaking in the decade
Arranger
Race Records
Ragtime
Herman Parker
20. 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.
Chuck Berry
Beach Boys
Paul Whiteman
Race Records
21. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Ballad
Frank Sinatra
Cakewalk
Polyphonic
22. 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
Patsy Cline
motive
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Irving Berlin
23. A guitarist and inventor - designed his own eight-track tape recorder and began in 1948 to release a series of popular recordings featuring his own playing - overdubbed to sound like an ensemble of six or more guitars.
Harmony
Les Paul
Paul Whiteman
Patsy Cline
24. 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
12-bar Blues
Banjo
Blues
Electric Guitar
25. 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.
Arranger
Melody
ASCAP
The Supremes
26. 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
Cole Porter
Paul Whiteman
Ballad
27. 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
Les Paul
George Gershwin
AABA form
Bessie Smith
28. 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.
Bluegrass
Les Paul
Verse
AABA form
29. 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
Classic blues
Verse
Polyphonic
Rock 'n' Roll
30. 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.
Cole Porter
Polyphonic
Standards
Louis Armstrong
31. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Bluegrass
motive
Bel canto
Benny Goodman
32. 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
Gene Autry
Motown
Ballad
ASCAP
33. 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
Blues
Duke Ellington
Concept album
Louis Armstrong
34. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Scat singing
Syncopation
Glenn Miller
Form
35. 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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36. The words of a song.
Lyrics
A cappella
Electronic recording
Major/Minor
37. 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.
Ragtime
Herman Parker
Tin Pan Alley
Scott Joplin
38. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Blues
Crooning
Standards
39. 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) -
Refrain
Bessie Smith
George Gershwin
Cole Porter
40. 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).
Ballad
Acoustic recording
Scat singing
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
41. A recurrent rhythmical series
Glenn Miller
cadence
Bob Dylan
Melody
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
Arranger
Cakewalk
Lyricist
A cappella
43. 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.
Dick Clark
Les Paul
Bel canto
Ragtime
44. Founder of Motown Records.
Hank Williams
ASCAP
Producer
Berry Gordy - Jr.
45. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
The Rolling Stones
Producer
Aretha Franklin
Texture
46. Founder of Motown Records.
Producer
James Brown
Strophic
Berry Gordy - Jr.
47. 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) -
ASCAP
George Gershwin
Verse
Chorus
48. 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
Arranger
Beach Boys
soul music
Duke Ellington
49. 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
Banjo
Bluegrass
Standards
cadence
50. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Rock 'n' Roll
Cover version
Cakewalk