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1. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Reverb
R&B
Diana Ross
Timbre
2. 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
Bel canto
Gene Autry
Tempo
Benny Goodman
3. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Payola
Disc Jockeys
urban folk
sound
4. A recurrent rhythmical series
Diana Ross
Concept album
cadence
The Supremes
5. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
Tin Pan Alley
Producer
Rhythm
6. 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
Frank Sinatra
cadence
Chuck Berry
Herman Parker
7. 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
Duke Ellington
Janis Joplin
Refrain
Sheet music
8. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Lyricist
Electric Guitar
Countrypolitan
Beat
9. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Major/Minor
Electronic recording
Bridge
The Supremes
10. 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.
Bessie Smith
Acoustic recording
Race Records
Cover version
11. 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
Ragtime
soul music
Dick Clark
Bluegrass
12. 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
Benny Goodman
cadence
Louis Armstrong
Scat singing
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
Producer
Boogie Woogie
The Supremes
A cappella
14. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Herman Parker
Banjo
Beat
Hook
15. 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.
Beach Boys
Buddy Holly
George Gershwin
Concept album
16. 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
Irving Berlin
Beat
Boogie Woogie
Texture
17. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scott Joplin
Rhythm
Scat singing
The Beatles
18. 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
R&B
Irving Berlin
Beat
Cakewalk
19. 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
Glenn Miller
The Supremes
Scott Joplin
Tempo
20. 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
Nashville sound
Hank Williams
sound
Concept album
21. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
ASCAP
sound
Producer
Arranger
22. 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
Glenn Miller
Duke Ellington
James Brown
23. 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.
Bluegrass
Cover version
Nashville sound
Frank Sinatra
24. 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.
Classic blues
Glenn Miller
Blues
Bessie Smith
25. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Janis Joplin
Scat singing
Harmony
Texture
26. 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.
Disc Jockeys
urban folk
Boogie Woogie
Ethel Merman
27. 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).
Buddy Holly
A cappella
Ballad
Electronic recording
28. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Diana Ross
Race Records
A cappella
Chuck Berry
29. 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
Gene Autry
Les Paul
Minstrel Show
Irving Berlin
30. 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
Banjo
soul music
Arranger
31. 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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32. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Minstrel Show
Phil Spector
Timbre
Diana Ross
33. 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
Melody
Bessie Smith
Hook
34. 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.'
Syncopation
Disc Jockeys
Louis Armstrong
Bob Dylan
35. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Verse
Cole Porter
Brian Wilson
Countrypolitan
36. 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.
cadence
Les Paul
ASCAP
The Supremes
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.
Buddy Holly
Herman Parker
Dick Clark
Disc Jockeys
38. 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
Phil Spector
Ray Charles
Reverb
R&B
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
Concept album
Aretha Franklin
Frank Sinatra
40. 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.
Disc Jockeys
Irving Berlin
Janis Joplin
Minstrel Show
41. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Electronic recording
Melody
Harmony
Patsy Cline
42. Motive - phrase - cadence
Herman Parker
Melody
Rhythm
R&B
43. 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.
12-bar Blues
Buddy Holly
Gene Autry
Louis Armstrong
44. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Ethel Merman
Concept album
The Rolling Stones
Frank Sinatra
45. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Ragtime
Les Paul
Motown
Patsy Cline
46. 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.
AABA form
Dick Clark
Cover version
Louis Armstrong
47. 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
Reverb
Diana Ross
Polyphonic
48. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
Form
Scott Joplin
R&B
49. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Beatles
Janis Joplin
The Supremes
50. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
A cappella
Diana Ross
Tempo
motive
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