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1. 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.
Nashville sound
Timbre
Countrypolitan
soul music
2. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Disc Jockeys
Hank Williams
The Rolling Stones
3. 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.
Beat
Nashville sound
Lyricist
Buddy Holly
4. 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
Cover version
Standards
Ragtime
Gene Autry
5. Trombonist and bandleader; formed his own band in 1937. Miller developed a peppy - clean-sounding style that appealed to small-town Midwestern people as well as to the big-city - East and West Coast constituency.
Minstrel Show
Glenn Miller
Concept album
Janis Joplin
6. 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
Bel canto
Blues
Phil Spector
Bessie Smith
7. 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.'
Refrain
Brian Wilson
Verse
soul music
8. 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.
Rockabilly
Sheet music
urban folk
Disc Jockeys
9. 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
Banjo
Patsy Cline
Beat
The Beatles
10. 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.
R&B
James Brown
Reverb
Electronic recording
11. The words of a song.
Lyrics
sound
Beat
Electric Guitar
12. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Scat singing
Major/Minor
Tin Pan Alley
Disc Jockeys
13. 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.
Texture
phrase
Timbre
12-bar Blues
14. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Polyphonic
Glenn Miller
Frank Sinatra
Timbre
15. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
ASCAP
Berry Gordy - Jr.
cadence
Refrain
16. 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
Herman Parker
Producer
Nashville sound
17. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Standards
AABA form
Bessie Smith
Concept album
18. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Elvis Presley
motive
Duke Ellington
19. Dubbed the 'first tycoon of teen -' his studio production techniques are known as the 'wall of sound' because of his utilization of dense orchestrations - multiple instruments - and heavy reverb.
Payola
Phil Spector
Texture
Electric Guitar
20. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Verse
Dick Clark
Sheet music
sound
21. 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) -
Tin Pan Alley
motive
George Gershwin
Refrain
22. 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.
Polyphonic
Motown
Frank Sinatra
The Beatles
23. 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.
phrase
Electric Guitar
Les Paul
The Beatles
24. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Ethel Merman
Rock 'n' Roll
Verse
Harmony
25. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Electronic recording
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
26. 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.
Bob Dylan
Beat
AABA form
Frank Sinatra
27. 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.'
Bob Dylan
Motown
Herman Parker
Ethel Merman
28. 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
Bridge
Verse
Minstrel Show
sound
29. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Bridge
Lyrics
Harmony
Verse
30. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Timbre
Ethel Merman
Electric Guitar
Buddy Holly
31. 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.
The Supremes
The Rolling Stones
James Brown
Buddy Holly
32. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Nashville sound
Electric Guitar
Ethel Merman
Tin Pan Alley
33. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Phil Spector
Bel canto
Boogie Woogie
Ethel Merman
34. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Gene Autry
Producer
Ragtime
35. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Dick Clark
Acoustic recording
12-bar Blues
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. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Scat singing
sound
Bluegrass
Ray Charles
38. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Crooning
Benny Goodman
Lyrics
39. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
12-bar Blues
sound
Frank Sinatra
Crooning
40. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Louis Armstrong
Payola
Crooning
Cole Porter
41. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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42. 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.'
Timbre
Jerry Lee Lewis
Motown
Brian Wilson
43. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Electronic recording
Irving Berlin
sound
44. 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
Cover version
Scott Joplin
Patsy Cline
Frank Sinatra
45. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Banjo
Patsy Cline
Harmony
Classic blues
46. 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.
ASCAP
Patsy Cline
Banjo
Bridge
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.
Producer
The Supremes
Herman Parker
Timbre
48. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Scat singing
Glenn Miller
Big Band
49. 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.
Electric Guitar
Beat
Timbre
12-bar Blues
50. 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
James Brown
Hank Williams
Diana Ross
phrase