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Music
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performing-arts
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1. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Rock 'n' Roll
Standards
Form
Polyphonic
2. 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
ASCAP
Lyricist
Frank Sinatra
The Beatles
3. 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
Bridge
Texture
urban folk
Cakewalk
4. 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.
Les Paul
Banjo
Rock 'n' Roll
Aretha Franklin
5. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
'The twist'
Duke Ellington
Bluegrass
6. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Jerry Lee Lewis
Refrain
7. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Syncopation
Arranger
Countrypolitan
8. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Hook
cadence
Harmony
ASCAP
9. 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).
Race Records
Form
Ballad
Janis Joplin
10. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Disc Jockeys
Ray Charles
Race Records
Minstrel Show
11. 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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12. 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.
Crooning
Bridge
Cole Porter
Standards
13. 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.'
Producer
Beach Boys
Bob Dylan
Banjo
14. 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.
12-bar Blues
Beat
Banjo
Melody
15. 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.
Rhythm
Hank Williams
Janis Joplin
Rock 'n' Roll
16. 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
Classic blues
Ray Charles
Texture
Benny Goodman
17. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
James Brown
Patsy Cline
Concept album
18. The word derives from the African American term 'to rag -' meaning to enliven a piece of music by shifting melodic accents onto the offbeats (a technique known as syncopation). Ragtime music emerged in the 1880s - its popularity peaking in the decade
Producer
Rockabilly
Motown
Ragtime
19. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Lyricist
Disc Jockeys
Ethel Merman
Form
20. 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.
AABA form
Rock 'n' Roll
Paul Whiteman
ASCAP
21. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Patsy Cline
'The twist'
Gene Autry
Race Records
22. 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.
George Gershwin
Bridge
Diana Ross
Rhythm
23. 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.
Motown
urban folk
Nashville sound
Rockabilly
24. 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
A cappella
Buddy Holly
Chorus
Producer
25. 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
Acoustic recording
Lyricist
Beat
Scott Joplin
26. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Nashville sound
Polyphonic
Patsy Cline
Verse
27. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
Major/Minor
Acoustic recording
Duke Ellington
28. The son of an immigrant leatherworker - did much to bridge the gulf between art music and popular music. Studied European classical music but also spent a great deal of time listening to jazz musicians in New York City. Wrote Porgy and Bess (1935) -
Les Paul
George Gershwin
Syncopation
Scott Joplin
29. 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
Irving Berlin
Louis Armstrong
Beach Boys
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
30. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
'The twist'
Sheet music
Patsy Cline
Big Band
31. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Standards
Beat
Lyricist
Hook
32. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
AABA form
Bob Dylan
Bridge
Countrypolitan
33. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Chorus
Acoustic recording
motive
urban folk
34. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Chuck Berry
Timbre
Brian Wilson
Motown
35. Motive - phrase - cadence
Ballad
motive
Melody
soul music
36. 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.
AABA form
Electric Guitar
sound
Scott Joplin
37. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Cover version
The Rolling Stones
Louis Armstrong
38. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Chuck Berry
R&B
The Rolling Stones
Classic blues
39. 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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40. '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.
Tempo
Payola
Harmony
The Supremes
41. 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
sound
Bluegrass
James Brown
Timbre
42. 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
Producer
Standards
Lyricist
43. 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
Elvis Presley
Hank Williams
Bluegrass
Race Records
44. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Melody
Diana Ross
Lyricist
Sheet music
45. A recurrent rhythmical series
Countrypolitan
cadence
Arranger
Bob Dylan
46. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Reverb
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Brian Wilson
Cole Porter
47. 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.
Hook
Boogie Woogie
Les Paul
Rockabilly
48. 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.
A cappella
Bessie Smith
Buddy Holly
ASCAP
49. '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.
motive
Payola
Aretha Franklin
Form
50. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Sheet music
Irving Berlin
Acoustic recording
Beat