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Music
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performing-arts
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1. 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.
Elvis Presley
Rockabilly
The Beatles
Lyricist
2. 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
Chorus
Polyphonic
Verse
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
Payola
Les Paul
Sheet music
Cakewalk
4. 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.
Texture
James Brown
Hank Williams
Cole Porter
5. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Arranger
Polyphonic
Race Records
soul music
6. 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
Beat
ASCAP
Gene Autry
7. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
A cappella
ASCAP
Strophic
8. 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.
Lyricist
Strophic
Timbre
Nashville sound
9. 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.
Elvis Presley
Rhythm
The Supremes
Phil Spector
10. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
George Gershwin
Big Band
George Gershwin
11. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Refrain
The Rolling Stones
Phil Spector
Melody
12. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
motive
The Rolling Stones
Frank Sinatra
Producer
13. 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
Texture
Patsy Cline
Dick Clark
Major/Minor
14. 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
Minstrel Show
Buddy Holly
Bob Dylan
15. 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.
Bridge
Classic blues
Reverb
sound
16. 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
Cakewalk
Banjo
motive
Louis Armstrong
17. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Lyricist
Louis Armstrong
motive
Countrypolitan
18. 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
Electronic recording
Electronic recording
Ray Charles
Verse
19. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
Chorus
Lyrics
soul music
20. Motive - phrase - cadence
Ballad
R&B
Melody
Jerry Lee Lewis
21. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Chorus
Crooning
Standards
Frank Sinatra
22. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Timbre
urban folk
sound
Strophic
23. 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
The Beatles
Classic blues
Motown
24. 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
Cover version
Chuck Berry
Diana Ross
Louis Armstrong
25. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
Race Records
Phil Spector
Tempo
26. 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
A cappella
Janis Joplin
Rock 'n' Roll
27. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Chorus
Verse
Glenn Miller
Cole Porter
28. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Paul Whiteman
'The twist'
Frank Sinatra
Refrain
29. 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.
Lyrics
Electronic recording
The Rolling Stones
Bel canto
30. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Benny Goodman
Bel canto
Bridge
A cappella
31. 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).
'The twist'
Ballad
Buddy Holly
Payola
32. A person who writes the words for songs
Motown
Disc Jockeys
Bluegrass
Lyricist
33. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Bob Dylan
motive
Texture
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
34. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Countrypolitan
Scott Joplin
Boogie Woogie
Chorus
35. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Scat singing
Electronic recording
The Rolling Stones
AABA form
36. 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
A cappella
Payola
Tin Pan Alley
37. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Boogie Woogie
Electric Guitar
phrase
Ray Charles
38. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
12-bar Blues
Jerry Lee Lewis
Les Paul
urban folk
39. 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
soul music
Elvis Presley
Bluegrass
'The twist'
40. 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
sound
Elvis Presley
Duke Ellington
A cappella
41. 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
Form
Refrain
Rhythm
42. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Cover version
Aretha Franklin
Crooning
Scat singing
43. 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.
Big Band
Frank Sinatra
Arranger
Elvis Presley
44. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Bob Dylan
Race Records
Scott Joplin
Tin Pan Alley
45. 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
sound
The Beatles
The Supremes
Rockabilly
46. 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.
Ballad
Frank Sinatra
Bessie Smith
The Beatles
47. 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.
Banjo
Lyricist
Bridge
The Supremes
48. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
ASCAP
phrase
Race Records
Crooning
49. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Benny Goodman
Polyphonic
Hook
Les Paul
50. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Race Records
R&B
soul music
Ethel Merman