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performing-arts
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1. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Bluegrass
Cover version
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
2. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
Race Records
Bluegrass
The Supremes
3. 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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4. Motive - phrase - cadence
Minstrel Show
The Supremes
Melody
Bel canto
5. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
The Rolling Stones
Acoustic recording
Form
Blues
6. Four- or five-stringed instrument with a membrane stretched over a wooden or metal hoop that is strummed or plucked. It was developed by slave musicians from African prototypes during the early colonial period. The banjo was used in the music of the
Glenn Miller
Arranger
Banjo
Major/Minor
7. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Lyricist
Frank Sinatra
Bessie Smith
Ray Charles
8. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Arranger
Minstrel Show
Minstrel Show
Dick Clark
9. 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.
Ray Charles
Lyricist
Bel canto
Rockabilly
10. 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
Countrypolitan
The Rolling Stones
Ethel Merman
Irving Berlin
11. Founder of Motown Records.
R&B
phrase
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Phil Spector
12. 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
Scott Joplin
Dick Clark
Chuck Berry
ASCAP
13. 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
Ethel Merman
Gene Autry
A cappella
14. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Irving Berlin
Scott Joplin
motive
15. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Timbre
Bridge
16. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Gene Autry
Dick Clark
Chorus
Reverb
17. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
Bel canto
Countrypolitan
Electric Guitar
18. 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.
Cakewalk
Elvis Presley
12-bar Blues
Rock 'n' Roll
19. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Producer
Ballad
Aretha Franklin
Beat
20. 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
Duke Ellington
Aretha Franklin
Race Records
21. 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
The Rolling Stones
Crooning
Producer
George Gershwin
22. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Elvis Presley
Benny Goodman
Electronic recording
Harmony
23. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Herman Parker
Refrain
Disc Jockeys
George Gershwin
24. 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
Louis Armstrong
R&B
Electric Guitar
25. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
Motown
Benny Goodman
Jerry Lee Lewis
26. 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.'
Arranger
Disc Jockeys
Bob Dylan
'The twist'
27. Four- or five-stringed instrument with a membrane stretched over a wooden or metal hoop that is strummed or plucked. It was developed by slave musicians from African prototypes during the early colonial period. The banjo was used in the music of the
The Beatles
Brian Wilson
Race Records
Banjo
28. 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.
Bridge
Tempo
Nashville sound
Reverb
29. 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
Brian Wilson
Bessie Smith
Hook
Rhythm
30. 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.
Sheet music
Ballad
Chuck Berry
AABA form
31. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Beat
Refrain
motive
Berry Gordy - Jr.
32. 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
cadence
Gene Autry
Harmony
Hank Williams
33. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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34. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Chorus
Refrain
The Rolling Stones
Sheet music
35. 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
Electric Guitar
Elvis Presley
Form
Rhythm
36. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Chorus
The Beatles
Cakewalk
Crooning
37. 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
Cover version
sound
Phil Spector
Verse
38. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Rhythm
sound
Brian Wilson
Bob Dylan
39. Motive - phrase - cadence
Bob Dylan
Cover version
Melody
Payola
40. 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
Lyrics
Producer
Ethel Merman
urban folk
41. 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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42. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
The Rolling Stones
Payola
Aretha Franklin
Concept album
43. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Rock 'n' Roll
Race Records
Gene Autry
44. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Electric Guitar
Cover version
George Gershwin
45. 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.
Elvis Presley
Bluegrass
urban folk
Race Records
46. 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
Glenn Miller
Buddy Holly
R&B
Sheet music
47. 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
Arranger
'The twist'
Patsy Cline
Minstrel Show
48. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Beat
Blues
Beat
49. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Tin Pan Alley
Acoustic recording
Crooning
Strophic
50. 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
R&B
Arranger
Benny Goodman
Crooning