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1. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Brian Wilson
Louis Armstrong
Concept album
Rockabilly
2. 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.
Tin Pan Alley
Louis Armstrong
Bel canto
James Brown
3. 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
Bessie Smith
Minstrel Show
Motown
Scott Joplin
4. 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
The Beatles
Polyphonic
Payola
Chuck Berry
5. 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
urban folk
Blues
Phil Spector
Sheet music
6. 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.
Paul Whiteman
Bridge
The Beatles
Blues
7. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Phil Spector
Crooning
AABA form
8. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Countrypolitan
Major/Minor
Big Band
Bessie Smith
9. 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.
Disc Jockeys
Strophic
cadence
Standards
10. 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
Cover version
Herman Parker
ASCAP
11. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Bridge
Acoustic recording
sound
Texture
12. 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.
Rhythm
urban folk
Patsy Cline
Benny Goodman
13. Founded in 1914 in an attempt to force all business establishments that featured live music to pay fees ('royalties') for the public use of music.
Lyricist
ASCAP
Scott Joplin
Bessie Smith
14. 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
urban folk
Cole Porter
Producer
soul music
15. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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16. 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
Hook
R&B
Scat singing
Big Band
17. 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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18. 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
Classic blues
Hank Williams
Countrypolitan
Melody
19. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Banjo
Disc Jockeys
Ragtime
Diana Ross
20. 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.'
Reverb
Beach Boys
ASCAP
Classic blues
21. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Les Paul
phrase
Crooning
22. 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
Buddy Holly
Paul Whiteman
Nashville sound
23. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Bluegrass
Janis Joplin
Harmony
24. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Bessie Smith
Producer
Chorus
Ballad
25. 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
Brian Wilson
Acoustic recording
12-bar Blues
26. Founder of Motown Records.
Polyphonic
Beat
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Ray Charles
27. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Gene Autry
Electronic recording
Dick Clark
28. 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
Irving Berlin
Standards
soul music
Countrypolitan
29. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Form
Melody
Rockabilly
Timbre
30. 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.
Bob Dylan
12-bar Blues
R&B
Blues
31. 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.'
Syncopation
Brian Wilson
Gene Autry
A cappella
32. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
motive
Arranger
Standards
33. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
Minstrel Show
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Les Paul
cadence
34. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Concept album
Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic blues
Melody
35. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Disc Jockeys
Bessie Smith
Beach Boys
36. 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.'
Louis Armstrong
Brian Wilson
Race Records
Irving Berlin
37. 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).
Verse
Big Band
Ballad
Lyricist
38. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Jerry Lee Lewis
Disc Jockeys
Minstrel Show
Strophic
39. 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 Beatles
Boogie Woogie
Duke Ellington
Ragtime
40. 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.
motive
AABA form
Ray Charles
Lyricist
41. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Tin Pan Alley
Crooning
Classic blues
42. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
Nashville sound
Lyricist
43. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Race Records
sound
Ballad
Chuck Berry
44. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Boogie Woogie
Standards
Benny Goodman
45. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Gene Autry
Rockabilly
Hook
Brian Wilson
46. 'Time' in Italian; the rate at which a musical composition proceeds - regulated by the speed of the beats or pulse to which it is performed.
Payola
Buddy Holly
Phil Spector
Tempo
47. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Boogie Woogie
Refrain
Motown
Syncopation
48. A short musical passage
Electronic recording
Electric Guitar
Timbre
phrase
49. 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.
Motown
Standards
Refrain
Duke Ellington
50. 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
The Beatles
Minstrel Show
The Rolling Stones
Brian Wilson
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