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1. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Lyricist
Bessie Smith
Beat
Syncopation
2. 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
Producer
Bel canto
Cakewalk
3. 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
The Rolling Stones
Tin Pan Alley
Bessie Smith
Blues
4. 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
Brian Wilson
Benny Goodman
Race Records
Chuck Berry
5. 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.
Producer
ASCAP
cadence
Standards
6. 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.'
Beach Boys
Syncopation
Rock 'n' Roll
Scott Joplin
7. A recurrent rhythmical series
George Gershwin
Paul Whiteman
Jerry Lee Lewis
cadence
8. 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.
Cover version
Race Records
Arranger
Beach Boys
9. Known as 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll -' the biggest star to come from the country side of the music world. Born in Tupelo - Mississippi - made his first recordings in Memphis at Sun Records - and later recorded for RCA and became a Hollywood film star
Big Band
phrase
AABA form
Elvis Presley
10. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Concept album
Beat
Bluegrass
11. 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
Producer
Countrypolitan
Major/Minor
Lyrics
12. 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
Elvis Presley
motive
Phil Spector
Louis Armstrong
13. 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
The Supremes
Bluegrass
Ragtime
George Gershwin
14. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
The Rolling Stones
Polyphonic
Reverb
ASCAP
15. 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
Patsy Cline
Classic blues
Scott Joplin
Melody
16. 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
Chorus
Bluegrass
Herman Parker
Electric Guitar
17. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Banjo
Jerry Lee Lewis
12-bar Blues
Sheet music
18. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Aretha Franklin
Scat singing
Harmony
Dick Clark
19. 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.
Rockabilly
Blues
A cappella
Phil Spector
20. 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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21. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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22. Popularly known as the 'Mother of the Blues -' was the first of the great women blues singers and had a direct influence on Bessie Smith.
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23. 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.
Tin Pan Alley
Janis Joplin
Syncopation
Countrypolitan
24. A short musical passage
Payola
phrase
Paul Whiteman
ASCAP
25. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Rhythm
Form
Big Band
Race Records
26. 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.
Beach Boys
Hank Williams
Concept album
Frank Sinatra
27. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Crooning
Rock 'n' Roll
R&B
Disc Jockeys
28. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Scat singing
Beach Boys
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bel canto
29. 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
R&B
Cover version
Jerry Lee Lewis
Big Band
30. 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.
Major/Minor
Paul Whiteman
Sheet music
R&B
31. 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
Boogie Woogie
Ballad
Bridge
32. 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
Cakewalk
Tempo
Ragtime
Diana Ross
33. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Sheet music
Melody
Beach Boys
34. 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
cadence
Acoustic recording
Form
Bessie Smith
35. 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
motive
Major/Minor
Electronic recording
Cole Porter
36. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Refrain
Electronic recording
Benny Goodman
Harmony
37. 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.
Refrain
12-bar Blues
Verse
The Supremes
38. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Classic blues
Ray Charles
R&B
Beat
39. Beat - meter - syncopation
Producer
Rhythm
Texture
Scat singing
40. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Hank Williams
Arranger
Diana Ross
41. 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
Harmony
12-bar Blues
motive
42. 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
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Louis Armstrong
Hank Williams
43. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
AABA form
Bluegrass
The Supremes
44. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Jerry Lee Lewis
phrase
Gene Autry
Sheet music
45. 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
Elvis Presley
Rhythm
The Beatles
Electric Guitar
46. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Harmony
Acoustic recording
Brian Wilson
The Supremes
47. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Motown
Paul Whiteman
motive
Refrain
48. 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
Standards
Scott Joplin
Boogie Woogie
cadence
49. 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.
cadence
Aretha Franklin
Syncopation
AABA form
50. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
Lyricist
Phil Spector
Paul Whiteman
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