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performing-arts
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1. 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.
Nashville sound
The Rolling Stones
R&B
cadence
2. 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
Ethel Merman
Rhythm
Lyrics
Gene Autry
3. 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.
Nashville sound
Herman Parker
Bridge
Dick Clark
4. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
A cappella
Tin Pan Alley
R&B
5. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
phrase
Diana Ross
Banjo
Texture
6. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Strophic
Herman Parker
Arranger
Standards
7. 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.'
Bob Dylan
Brian Wilson
Race Records
Payola
8. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Countrypolitan
soul music
phrase
Hook
9. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
AABA form
Buddy Holly
Harmony
10. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Hook
R&B
urban folk
11. A recurrent rhythmical series
Phil Spector
Race Records
Cole Porter
cadence
12. 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
Chorus
Verse
Bessie Smith
Irving Berlin
13. 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
Lyrics
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Scat singing
Boogie Woogie
14. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
soul music
Major/Minor
Jerry Lee Lewis
15. 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
Rockabilly
Buddy Holly
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
16. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Phil Spector
Race Records
Electronic recording
Bob Dylan
17. 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.
The Rolling Stones
Standards
Countrypolitan
Phil Spector
18. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Diana Ross
Classic blues
The Rolling Stones
Phil Spector
19. 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.
A cappella
Nashville sound
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Paul Whiteman
20. 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
Race Records
Disc Jockeys
Timbre
21. 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.
Arranger
Bob Dylan
Bessie Smith
AABA form
22. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Verse
The Supremes
Classic blues
Dick Clark
23. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
The Beatles
Boogie Woogie
Beach Boys
24. 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
The Rolling Stones
Melody
Electric Guitar
Jerry Lee Lewis
25. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Beach Boys
Cole Porter
Verse
Melody
26. '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.
Payola
Aretha Franklin
Bridge
Form
27. Beat - meter - syncopation
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Race Records
Banjo
Rhythm
28. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Lyrics
Timbre
Chorus
cadence
29. 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.'
'The twist'
Verse
Beach Boys
Syncopation
30. 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.
Payola
Frank Sinatra
sound
Nashville sound
31. 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.'
Boogie Woogie
Bob Dylan
Elvis Presley
Polyphonic
32. 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.'
Brian Wilson
Classic blues
Scott Joplin
Tempo
33. 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
Scat singing
Hank Williams
Beach Boys
Jerry Lee Lewis
34. 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
Duke Ellington
Dick Clark
Concept album
35. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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36. 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
Ballad
Minstrel Show
Louis Armstrong
Herman Parker
37. 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
Arranger
The Supremes
Janis Joplin
Irving Berlin
38. 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.
ASCAP
Chorus
Dick Clark
Rhythm
39. Chord - consonance - dissonance
phrase
Rhythm
Harmony
Minstrel Show
40. 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
Beach Boys
Countrypolitan
Minstrel Show
41. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Hook
Ragtime
Scat singing
Producer
42. 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.
Beach Boys
Ragtime
James Brown
Nashville sound
43. 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.
Ragtime
Chorus
Glenn Miller
Herman Parker
44. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Syncopation
Benny Goodman
Electronic recording
Jerry Lee Lewis
45. Founder of Motown Records.
Tempo
AABA form
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Standards
46. 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
urban folk
Lyricist
Irving Berlin
Scott Joplin
47. 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
Glenn Miller
Minstrel Show
Patsy Cline
Arranger
48. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Big Band
Glenn Miller
Tin Pan Alley
49. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
Les Paul
Phil Spector
Cakewalk
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.
Cover version
Glenn Miller
Chuck Berry
Bessie Smith