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1. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Louis Armstrong
Race Records
Polyphonic
Classic blues
2. 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
Ragtime
Minstrel Show
The Beatles
Irving Berlin
3. 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
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Rockabilly
4. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Electric Guitar
Patsy Cline
Blues
The Rolling Stones
5. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Arranger
Cover version
Irving Berlin
Chorus
6. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
AABA form
Ragtime
motive
Refrain
7. 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
Minstrel Show
Payola
Dick Clark
Scott Joplin
8. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Tin Pan Alley
Melody
Hank Williams
A cappella
9. 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.'
Irving Berlin
Beach Boys
Glenn Miller
Reverb
10. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Boogie Woogie
Gene Autry
Beat
Payola
11. 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.
AABA form
Standards
Diana Ross
Gene Autry
12. A short musical passage
Beat
phrase
Janis Joplin
Motown
13. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Refrain
Jerry Lee Lewis
A cappella
Nashville sound
14. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Form
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Countrypolitan
Motown
15. 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.
Blues
Bessie Smith
Major/Minor
James Brown
16. A recurrent rhythmical series
James Brown
Elvis Presley
Verse
cadence
17. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
Nashville sound
Beach Boys
Harmony
18. 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.
The Supremes
The Rolling Stones
urban folk
Scott Joplin
19. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Bel canto
Diana Ross
Scott Joplin
20. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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21. 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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22. 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
sound
Cole Porter
Minstrel Show
Countrypolitan
23. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Glenn Miller
Hook
Motown
Arranger
24. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
'The twist'
Cole Porter
Big Band
Minstrel Show
25. 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.
The Rolling Stones
Producer
Paul Whiteman
Cover version
26. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Minstrel Show
Bob Dylan
Electronic recording
Classic blues
27. 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
Hank Williams
Scat singing
Polyphonic
Form
28. 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.
Reverb
Phil Spector
Frank Sinatra
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
29. '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.
Gene Autry
Banjo
Race Records
Aretha Franklin
30. 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) -
R&B
Electronic recording
George Gershwin
Classic blues
31. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Scott Joplin
Electronic recording
Motown
Rock 'n' Roll
32. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Tempo
Cakewalk
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bluegrass
33. 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
Benny Goodman
Harmony
Sheet music
Syncopation
34. 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.
Louis Armstrong
Blues
Tin Pan Alley
ASCAP
35. '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.
Strophic
Phil Spector
Tempo
Cakewalk
36. 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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37. 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.
Standards
Blues
Duke Ellington
Les Paul
38. 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
Harmony
Major/Minor
R&B
Tin Pan Alley
39. 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
Gene Autry
James Brown
The Rolling Stones
Tempo
40. 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.
Bob Dylan
Herman Parker
Aretha Franklin
motive
41. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Lyrics
The Rolling Stones
Dick Clark
Motown
42. 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
Gene Autry
Harmony
Tempo
AABA form
43. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
phrase
Beach Boys
Lyricist
Ray Charles
44. 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).
urban folk
Ragtime
Ballad
Timbre
45. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
Tempo
Acoustic recording
Chuck Berry
46. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Standards
Melody
urban folk
Diana Ross
47. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Classic blues
Form
motive
Blues
48. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Bluegrass
Electronic recording
Brian Wilson
Ethel Merman
49. Founder of Motown Records.
Classic blues
Diana Ross
Ray Charles
Berry Gordy - Jr.
50. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
The Supremes
Rockabilly
Beat