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Music
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performing-arts
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1. Chord - consonance - dissonance
James Brown
soul music
Blues
Harmony
2. 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).
Boogie Woogie
Sheet music
Ballad
Jerry Lee Lewis
3. 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.
urban folk
Ray Charles
Bridge
Duke Ellington
4. 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
Bel canto
Les Paul
Scott Joplin
Gene Autry
5. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Race Records
Elvis Presley
Refrain
Sheet music
6. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
George Gershwin
Syncopation
Frank Sinatra
7. 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.
soul music
The Supremes
Arranger
Ray Charles
8. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
motive
Syncopation
The Supremes
A cappella
9. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Boogie Woogie
James Brown
Crooning
Melody
10. 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
Acoustic recording
Reverb
Countrypolitan
The Beatles
11. 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).
soul music
Ballad
AABA form
Banjo
12. 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.
Syncopation
Benny Goodman
Big Band
Paul Whiteman
13. 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
Phil Spector
Paul Whiteman
Reverb
14. 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
Beat
Chuck Berry
Electronic recording
Major/Minor
15. The words of a song.
Bluegrass
Lyrics
Cole Porter
Texture
16. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Buddy Holly
Big Band
Bel canto
17. 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.
Cole Porter
Buddy Holly
Major/Minor
Ray Charles
18. 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
Les Paul
sound
sound
19. 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.
Buddy Holly
Dick Clark
12-bar Blues
Chorus
20. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Syncopation
Frank Sinatra
Refrain
21. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Brian Wilson
phrase
Payola
Paul Whiteman
22. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Jerry Lee Lewis
Electronic recording
Ethel Merman
23. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Cover version
Ethel Merman
Polyphonic
Banjo
24. 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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25. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Cover version
motive
Lyricist
Strophic
26. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Paul Whiteman
Form
Tempo
Sheet music
27. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Syncopation
Chorus
AABA form
Frank Sinatra
28. 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.
urban folk
Boogie Woogie
Syncopation
Motown
29. 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
Janis Joplin
Major/Minor
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
30. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
soul music
Scott Joplin
Dick Clark
31. 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.
Scat singing
Bel canto
Les Paul
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
32. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Race Records
Hook
Texture
phrase
33. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Tempo
The Beatles
Countrypolitan
Scott Joplin
34. 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
Rhythm
Bridge
Major/Minor
Irving Berlin
35. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Rock 'n' Roll
Motown
Patsy Cline
Ray Charles
36. '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.
Aretha Franklin
Bessie Smith
Gene Autry
Rockabilly
37. 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.
Duke Ellington
Bel canto
Glenn Miller
Tin Pan Alley
38. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Classic blues
Melody
Herman Parker
39. 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
Minstrel Show
Rock 'n' Roll
Louis Armstrong
Ray Charles
40. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Scat singing
Dick Clark
Sheet music
Arranger
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
Hank Williams
Electric Guitar
R&B
Rockabilly
42. 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
The Supremes
Verse
Bridge
Classic blues
43. 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
Dick Clark
Cole Porter
Tin Pan Alley
Crooning
44. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
Paul Whiteman
Bob Dylan
Refrain
45. 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
Motown
Irving Berlin
Ray Charles
Rockabilly
46. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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47. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
R&B
Duke Ellington
Form
Concept album
48. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
AABA form
Concept album
Diana Ross
Countrypolitan
49. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Disc Jockeys
Patsy Cline
Paul Whiteman
Lyrics
50. 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.
Standards
Concept album
Cover version
Boogie Woogie