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Music
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1. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
sound
Electronic recording
Refrain
R&B
2. 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
Hank Williams
Scott Joplin
Rhythm
Irving Berlin
3. 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.
Janis Joplin
Dick Clark
Les Paul
Banjo
4. 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.
urban folk
Glenn Miller
urban folk
Reverb
5. 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.'
James Brown
Scat singing
Standards
Brian Wilson
6. 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.
Les Paul
Classic blues
A cappella
AABA form
7. Beat - meter - syncopation
Race Records
Chorus
Sheet music
Rhythm
8. 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
Rockabilly
Louis Armstrong
Tempo
Herman Parker
9. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Benny Goodman
Lyricist
Herman Parker
Payola
10. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
The Beatles
Ballad
Producer
11. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Countrypolitan
Classic blues
Beat
A cappella
12. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Brian Wilson
George Gershwin
Rockabilly
Motown
13. 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.
Melody
Cover version
Reverb
Janis Joplin
14. 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.
Race Records
Harmony
urban folk
Janis Joplin
15. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Elvis Presley
Ballad
Motown
Beat
16. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
12-bar Blues
Nashville sound
Boogie Woogie
17. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Acoustic recording
Arranger
Countrypolitan
Ray Charles
18. 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.
George Gershwin
12-bar Blues
Race Records
Ballad
19. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Texture
Chorus
Classic blues
Crooning
20. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Tempo
Rockabilly
soul music
21. 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
Minstrel Show
R&B
motive
Rhythm
22. 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
Benny Goodman
Acoustic recording
Bessie Smith
Chuck Berry
23. 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.
Dick Clark
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Harmony
Phil Spector
24. 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.
Minstrel Show
Big Band
Herman Parker
Rockabilly
25. 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.
Chorus
Duke Ellington
Frank Sinatra
Herman Parker
26. 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.
R&B
Melody
Cover version
Producer
27. 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
Electric Guitar
Patsy Cline
Major/Minor
sound
28. 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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29. Founder of Motown Records.
cadence
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Glenn Miller
Disc Jockeys
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.
Timbre
Patsy Cline
Paul Whiteman
Electric Guitar
31. 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.
Standards
AABA form
Bob Dylan
Aretha Franklin
32. 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
Boogie Woogie
Producer
James Brown
Dick Clark
33. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Verse
Concept album
James Brown
Major/Minor
34. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
Patsy Cline
35. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
The Rolling Stones
A cappella
Sheet music
Nashville sound
36. The words of a song.
The Beatles
Bridge
Lyrics
Louis Armstrong
37. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
Producer
A cappella
urban folk
38. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Boogie Woogie
Chorus
Classic blues
Duke Ellington
39. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Concept album
Phil Spector
Classic blues
Syncopation
40. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Countrypolitan
Bluegrass
The Rolling Stones
12-bar Blues
41. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
R&B
Bridge
Electronic recording
42. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Les Paul
Polyphonic
Crooning
Harmony
43. 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.
Phil Spector
Motown
Form
Bel canto
44. 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
Verse
The Supremes
Paul Whiteman
45. 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
Hank Williams
Diana Ross
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
46. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Boogie Woogie
Crooning
Les Paul
Brian Wilson
47. 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
Lyrics
sound
Bessie Smith
Minstrel Show
48. 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.'
Elvis Presley
Beach Boys
Scott Joplin
Hank Williams
49. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Brian Wilson
Diana Ross
Payola
Countrypolitan
50. 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.'
Frank Sinatra
Bob Dylan
A cappella
phrase