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1. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
R&B
Big Band
motive
Polyphonic
2. Known as 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll -' the biggest star to come from the country side of the music world. Born in Tupelo - Mississippi - made his first recordings in Memphis at Sun Records - and later recorded for RCA and became a Hollywood film star
Cole Porter
Lyrics
Scott Joplin
Elvis Presley
3. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Nashville sound
Form
The Rolling Stones
Arranger
4. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Timbre
Scott Joplin
Bridge
5. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
George Gershwin
Big Band
soul music
Electronic recording
6. 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).
Ballad
Bridge
The Beatles
Acoustic recording
7. 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
Minstrel Show
Melody
Rockabilly
Gene Autry
8. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Brian Wilson
sound
Verse
Scott Joplin
9. Founder of Motown Records.
Benny Goodman
Rhythm
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Timbre
10. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Electronic recording
Banjo
Classic blues
11. Beat - meter - syncopation
Bluegrass
Hook
Rhythm
Berry Gordy - Jr.
12. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Rock 'n' Roll
Cakewalk
Acoustic recording
13. 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
Paul Whiteman
Hank Williams
The Supremes
Major/Minor
14. 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.
Bel canto
Verse
Classic blues
The Rolling Stones
15. 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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16. 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
Paul Whiteman
Polyphonic
The Supremes
17. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bridge
Irving Berlin
Payola
18. 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.
R&B
Verse
Nashville sound
Duke Ellington
19. '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.
Banjo
Louis Armstrong
Race Records
Tempo
20. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Beat
Bob Dylan
sound
Harmony
21. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Phil Spector
Dick Clark
Boogie Woogie
Hank Williams
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.
Hank Williams
Benny Goodman
Minstrel Show
urban folk
23. 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
Verse
Bluegrass
Chuck Berry
Harmony
24. 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.
Producer
Payola
motive
Herman Parker
25. 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.
Chorus
Bel canto
12-bar Blues
Rhythm
26. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
phrase
Texture
Louis Armstrong
27. 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
Rhythm
Scott Joplin
ASCAP
Harmony
28. 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).
Ballad
Blues
Phil Spector
George Gershwin
29. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Hank Williams
Les Paul
Standards
Electronic recording
30. 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.'
A cappella
Minstrel Show
Brian Wilson
Timbre
31. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Ethel Merman
Sheet music
Ray Charles
Diana Ross
32. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Les Paul
Louis Armstrong
Cole Porter
33. '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.
Aretha Franklin
Boogie Woogie
sound
Rhythm
34. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ray Charles
Blues
Classic blues
35. 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
Ray Charles
Reverb
Disc Jockeys
36. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Glenn Miller
Blues
Phil Spector
37. 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
Beat
Hook
Janis Joplin
38. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Strophic
Ray Charles
Bluegrass
Producer
39. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
sound
Janis Joplin
Form
40. 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
Syncopation
Paul Whiteman
Hank Williams
Aretha Franklin
41. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Bessie Smith
Les Paul
Big Band
Refrain
42. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Janis Joplin
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Cakewalk
43. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Ray Charles
Big Band
Acoustic recording
Strophic
44. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Crooning
Diana Ross
Hook
Patsy Cline
45. 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
Polyphonic
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Rhythm
46. 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
Dick Clark
Producer
Disc Jockeys
Ray Charles
47. 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
Nashville sound
Texture
Tin Pan Alley
Nashville sound
48. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
The Beatles
Cover version
Refrain
Hank Williams
49. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Strophic
Herman Parker
Sheet music
50. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Frank Sinatra
Crooning
Form
Elvis Presley
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