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performing-arts
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1. 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
Classic blues
Ballad
soul music
2. 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
Beach Boys
Ballad
Frank Sinatra
3. 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.
The Supremes
Syncopation
Janis Joplin
Harmony
4. Motive - phrase - cadence
Blues
Melody
Harmony
12-bar Blues
5. 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
Boogie Woogie
Nashville sound
Paul Whiteman
Brian Wilson
6. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
The Rolling Stones
Frank Sinatra
soul music
Elvis Presley
7. Vigorous form of country and western music informed by the rhythms of black R&B and electric blues. Exemplified by artists such as Carl Perkins and the young Elvis Presley.
Rockabilly
Tempo
Motown
Hook
8. 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.
Bluegrass
Tin Pan Alley
Refrain
Les Paul
9. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
soul music
ASCAP
AABA form
10. 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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11. 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
Patsy Cline
Beat
Irving Berlin
Rock 'n' Roll
12. 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
Frank Sinatra
Minstrel Show
Ballad
Bob Dylan
13. A short musical passage
Rhythm
Hook
12-bar Blues
phrase
14. 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
Verse
Frank Sinatra
Lyricist
Bluegrass
15. The words of a song.
The Supremes
Form
James Brown
Lyrics
16. 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
Phil Spector
Irving Berlin
The Rolling Stones
17. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
cadence
Lyrics
Form
18. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Electric Guitar
Rockabilly
Bessie Smith
19. Beat - meter - syncopation
Beach Boys
ASCAP
Electric Guitar
Rhythm
20. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Tin Pan Alley
Dick Clark
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
21. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Ballad
Boogie Woogie
Scat singing
sound
22. 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
Bluegrass
Irving Berlin
Race Records
23. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Melody
Race Records
Diana Ross
Phil Spector
24. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Chorus
Major/Minor
motive
Bel canto
25. 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
motive
Glenn Miller
Lyricist
Louis Armstrong
26. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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27. A recurrent rhythmical series
Les Paul
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Brian Wilson
cadence
28. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
ASCAP
ASCAP
Crooning
Blues
29. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Glenn Miller
Cakewalk
Banjo
30. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Chorus
Hank Williams
Patsy Cline
Phil Spector
31. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Hook
Bluegrass
cadence
Texture
32. 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
soul music
Beach Boys
motive
33. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Paul Whiteman
Hank Williams
Disc Jockeys
34. 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
George Gershwin
12-bar Blues
Boogie Woogie
35. 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
Herman Parker
Cole Porter
Producer
Big Band
36. 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
Blues
The Supremes
Verse
Tempo
37. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
ASCAP
Ballad
cadence
38. 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
Polyphonic
12-bar Blues
Benny Goodman
Classic blues
39. 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
Major/Minor
Cole Porter
Paul Whiteman
ASCAP
40. 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.
Diana Ross
Big Band
Paul Whiteman
Ray Charles
41. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Phil Spector
Concept album
Bridge
Hook
42. 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.
Glenn Miller
Form
Duke Ellington
Jerry Lee Lewis
43. 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.
Bessie Smith
Cole Porter
Classic blues
Standards
44. 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
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Countrypolitan
Blues
Hank Williams
45. A person who writes the words for songs
Bluegrass
Refrain
Timbre
Lyricist
46. 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.
phrase
Bessie Smith
Bluegrass
Janis Joplin
47. 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
Scat singing
Gene Autry
Aretha Franklin
Chuck Berry
48. 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
Janis Joplin
Verse
Nashville sound
Glenn Miller
49. 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.
Syncopation
Producer
Les Paul
Gene Autry
50. 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.
Beat
Duke Ellington
12-bar Blues
Tin Pan Alley