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1. 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.
Race Records
Les Paul
12-bar Blues
Dick Clark
2. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Ragtime
Timbre
Frank Sinatra
soul music
3. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Electronic recording
Cole Porter
Chorus
Sheet music
4. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Arranger
Reverb
Big Band
Banjo
5. The 'Godfather of Soul.' He was known for his acrobatic physicality and remarkable charisma on stage. No other single musician has proven to be as influential on the sound and style of black music as James Brown.
Timbre
Arranger
Bessie Smith
James Brown
6. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Countrypolitan
Bessie Smith
Refrain
7. 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
Big Band
Ray Charles
Lyrics
Boogie Woogie
8. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Phil Spector
Disc Jockeys
Chorus
Ray Charles
9. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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10. Africanized version of the European quadrille (a kind of square dance). The cakewalk was developed by slaves as a parody of the 'refined' dance movements of the white slave owners
Louis Armstrong
Electronic recording
sound
Cakewalk
11. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Cole Porter
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Texture
Refrain
12. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Reverb
Boogie Woogie
Payola
Rockabilly
13. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Acoustic recording
Polyphonic
Motown
14. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Melody
AABA form
Bridge
Beat
15. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Buddy Holly
Bridge
Ragtime
Electronic recording
16. 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.'
phrase
'The twist'
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
17. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Motown
Hook
Beach Boys
Arranger
18. 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
Boogie Woogie
Duke Ellington
Polyphonic
Chorus
19. 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
Elvis Presley
Minstrel Show
Banjo
20. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
Refrain
Benny Goodman
Electric Guitar
21. 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.'
Patsy Cline
Tin Pan Alley
Polyphonic
Beach Boys
22. 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
Ragtime
Melody
Rockabilly
23. 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
Bob Dylan
Bluegrass
Boogie Woogie
urban folk
24. 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.
Form
The Rolling Stones
Big Band
ASCAP
25. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Chorus
Minstrel Show
Hook
Duke Ellington
26. 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.
Race Records
Classic blues
Ballad
The Supremes
27. 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.
Nashville sound
James Brown
Polyphonic
Herman Parker
28. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Lyricist
Bridge
Acoustic recording
Hank Williams
29. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Motown
Tin Pan Alley
Minstrel Show
motive
30. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Crooning
Duke Ellington
Paul Whiteman
Polyphonic
31. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Diana Ross
A cappella
Refrain
Sheet music
32. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
Phil Spector
Cakewalk
Chorus
33. 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.
ASCAP
Frank Sinatra
Boogie Woogie
Nashville sound
34. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Concept album
Electronic recording
Beat
Electric Guitar
35. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Disc Jockeys
Banjo
'The twist'
Acoustic recording
36. The B section of AABA song form found in the refrain of a Tin Pan Alley song. The bridge presents new material: a new melody - chord changes - and lyrics.
Bridge
Standards
Motown
Ragtime
37. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Tempo
Herman Parker
Patsy Cline
Gene Autry
38. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
soul music
Ballad
Gene Autry
39. 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
Chuck Berry
Strophic
Boogie Woogie
A cappella
40. 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.
soul music
Les Paul
AABA form
Classic blues
41. 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
The Beatles
Elvis Presley
Bessie Smith
Cole Porter
42. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Electric Guitar
Louis Armstrong
Patsy Cline
43. 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.'
Race Records
Janis Joplin
Beach Boys
Duke Ellington
44. 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
Phil Spector
Chorus
Duke Ellington
Herman Parker
45. 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
Herman Parker
Payola
Hank Williams
Cakewalk
46. 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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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.
Strophic
Ethel Merman
Standards
Reverb
48. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Ballad
Ballad
Benny Goodman
49. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Minstrel Show
Arranger
Strophic
Benny Goodman
50. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Form
Cakewalk
Arranger
Berry Gordy - Jr.