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1. 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
urban folk
Ballad
phrase
Bessie Smith
2. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Scott Joplin
A cappella
Cole Porter
Producer
3. 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
Sheet music
Texture
Reverb
Bluegrass
4. A short musical passage
12-bar Blues
Irving Berlin
phrase
Bessie Smith
5. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Electronic recording
Dick Clark
Form
Blues
6. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Bessie Smith
Boogie Woogie
Syncopation
Bob Dylan
7. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Cakewalk
Major/Minor
Polyphonic
Boogie Woogie
8. 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
Phil Spector
Beat
Ray Charles
9. Early rock 'n' roll guitarist - singer - and songwriter from the country/rockabilly side of rock 'n' roll. Killed tragically at the age of twenty-two in a plane crash.
Ragtime
Buddy Holly
Arranger
Beach Boys
10. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
R&B
Banjo
ASCAP
11. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Electronic recording
urban folk
Payola
Chuck Berry
12. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Louis Armstrong
Dick Clark
13. 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
Motown
Gene Autry
Form
Minstrel Show
14. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Melody
Harmony
Janis Joplin
Boogie Woogie
15. 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
Harmony
Electronic recording
Verse
Minstrel Show
16. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
phrase
Strophic
urban folk
17. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Payola
Ragtime
R&B
Beat
18. '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.
Janis Joplin
Aretha Franklin
Race Records
Chorus
19. 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.
Sheet music
The Supremes
Ethel Merman
Bessie Smith
20. 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
Melody
Blues
Louis Armstrong
Tempo
21. Founder of Motown Records.
Bluegrass
Chuck Berry
Standards
Berry Gordy - Jr.
22. 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
Hank Williams
Ray Charles
Hank Williams
23. 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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Janis Joplin
Louis Armstrong
Aretha Franklin
24. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Timbre
Sheet music
Bob Dylan
Tempo
25. 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
Frank Sinatra
Irving Berlin
Louis Armstrong
Gene Autry
26. 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.'
sound
Cakewalk
Crooning
Beach Boys
27. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Herman Parker
Bluegrass
Standards
28. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
A cappella
The Rolling Stones
Beach Boys
29. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Tin Pan Alley
Sheet music
Acoustic recording
Beach Boys
30. 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
Bridge
Beat
Chorus
31. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Motown
Electronic recording
Timbre
Dick Clark
32. 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
Arranger
Duke Ellington
Acoustic recording
Crooning
33. 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
George Gershwin
Rockabilly
Cakewalk
Sheet music
34. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Bridge
James Brown
The Supremes
35. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Motown
AABA form
Crooning
Classic blues
36. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
The Rolling Stones
Form
Brian Wilson
37. 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.
Boogie Woogie
Cover version
Strophic
Timbre
38. 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
Countrypolitan
Tin Pan Alley
Blues
Producer
39. The words of a song.
The Supremes
Lyrics
Electronic recording
urban folk
40. 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
Payola
Bessie Smith
Bob Dylan
Scott Joplin
41. 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.'
Dick Clark
Bob Dylan
Motown
Ragtime
42. 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.
Glenn Miller
George Gershwin
Louis Armstrong
Janis Joplin
43. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Reverb
Ray Charles
Hook
44. 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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45. Beat - meter - syncopation
AABA form
Rhythm
Chuck Berry
Buddy Holly
46. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Diana Ross
Rock 'n' Roll
Tempo
47. A recurrent rhythmical series
Rockabilly
Reverb
cadence
ASCAP
48. 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
Ray Charles
Bridge
49. 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
R&B
Timbre
The Beatles
Blues
50. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Bluegrass
Beach Boys
Beat
Blues
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