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1. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Disc Jockeys
Paul Whiteman
Bluegrass
2. 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.
James Brown
Aretha Franklin
sound
Harmony
3. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Melody
Race Records
Bel canto
4. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Disc Jockeys
Chorus
Dick Clark
urban folk
5. 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.
Bluegrass
AABA form
Cakewalk
A cappella
6. 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
Standards
Benny Goodman
Frank Sinatra
Tin Pan Alley
7. 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
Syncopation
Scat singing
Irving Berlin
Texture
8. 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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9. 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.
Brian Wilson
AABA form
Big Band
Phil Spector
10. 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.
Reverb
Aretha Franklin
Timbre
A cappella
11. 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
Sheet music
Bridge
Verse
Blues
12. 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
Buddy Holly
Hank Williams
Janis Joplin
13. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Big Band
Beat
Ray Charles
Race Records
14. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Melody
Patsy Cline
Herman Parker
Beach Boys
15. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Patsy Cline
Glenn Miller
Classic blues
16. 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.
ASCAP
Cakewalk
Ragtime
Les Paul
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.
Arranger
Ballad
Ethel Merman
Sheet music
18. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Scat singing
Verse
George Gershwin
19. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Electronic recording
Frank Sinatra
Concept album
Hook
20. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Motown
Strophic
Motown
Melody
21. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Lyricist
Paul Whiteman
Sheet music
22. 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
R&B
AABA form
George Gershwin
Ragtime
23. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Polyphonic
Blues
Payola
soul music
24. 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
Cakewalk
Strophic
Bessie Smith
Nashville sound
25. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Standards
Ray Charles
Minstrel Show
Beat
26. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Chorus
Jerry Lee Lewis
Big Band
cadence
27. 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.'
Dick Clark
motive
Ray Charles
Brian Wilson
28. 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
Payola
Producer
Bluegrass
Boogie Woogie
29. 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
12-bar Blues
Classic blues
Duke Ellington
Benny Goodman
30. A short musical passage
Beach Boys
urban folk
Ballad
phrase
31. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Gene Autry
Countrypolitan
sound
A cappella
32. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
A cappella
'The twist'
Crooning
12-bar Blues
33. 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
Concept album
Nashville sound
soul music
34. 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.
'The twist'
A cappella
The Rolling Stones
Buddy Holly
35. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Banjo
James Brown
Dick Clark
36. 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
Bel canto
Bessie Smith
'The twist'
Irving Berlin
37. 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
Scott Joplin
Verse
12-bar Blues
Boogie Woogie
38. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
sound
Race Records
Acoustic recording
Janis Joplin
39. Motive - phrase - cadence
Syncopation
Melody
Classic blues
phrase
40. 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.
Concept album
Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman
Ballad
41. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Payola
Blues
Beach Boys
42. 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
Race Records
Rockabilly
Big Band
Chuck Berry
43. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Disc Jockeys
Payola
Motown
soul music
44. 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.'
phrase
soul music
Beach Boys
Louis Armstrong
45. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Janis Joplin
46. 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
Hook
Classic blues
Timbre
Electric Guitar
47. 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.
Bridge
Frank Sinatra
Duke Ellington
Paul Whiteman
48. '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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Dick Clark
Tempo
Verse
49. 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
Melody
Brian Wilson
Verse
50. '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.
'The twist'
Tempo
Ray Charles
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