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performing-arts
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1. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Countrypolitan
Nashville sound
Janis Joplin
Arranger
2. 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
Bluegrass
Reverb
Glenn Miller
Tin Pan Alley
3. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
George Gershwin
Polyphonic
Boogie Woogie
Brian Wilson
4. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Syncopation
Big Band
Aretha Franklin
'The twist'
5. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Benny Goodman
Texture
Brian Wilson
6. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Irving Berlin
Lyrics
Timbre
Form
7. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
George Gershwin
Strophic
Electronic recording
Major/Minor
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.
Rhythm
Cole Porter
Paul Whiteman
Irving Berlin
9. 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.
urban folk
Disc Jockeys
Bob Dylan
Electronic recording
10. Beat - meter - syncopation
AABA form
Rhythm
Producer
Bluegrass
11. 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.
Glenn Miller
Harmony
phrase
Strophic
12. 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
AABA form
soul music
Cakewalk
Nashville sound
13. 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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14. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Concept album
Acoustic recording
Refrain
15. 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.
Ethel Merman
soul music
Nashville sound
AABA form
16. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Disc Jockeys
Beat
Concept album
James Brown
17. 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.
Form
The Beatles
Reverb
James Brown
18. 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.
Banjo
Bel canto
Rock 'n' Roll
Blues
19. 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
James Brown
Concept album
Benny Goodman
Harmony
20. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Beach Boys
Patsy Cline
Elvis Presley
Electronic recording
21. 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
Bessie Smith
James Brown
Strophic
22. 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
Gene Autry
Form
Jerry Lee Lewis
23. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
AABA form
Melody
sound
The Supremes
24. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Countrypolitan
Chorus
Strophic
Nashville sound
25. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Louis Armstrong
Payola
Tempo
Chorus
26. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Diana Ross
Refrain
Producer
Form
27. 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.
AABA form
Frank Sinatra
Tin Pan Alley
Lyricist
28. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Rockabilly
Glenn Miller
Melody
Ray Charles
29. 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
Big Band
Gene Autry
sound
Boogie Woogie
30. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
phrase
Strophic
Concept album
31. 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
Motown
Producer
Refrain
Brian Wilson
32. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Bridge
Bob Dylan
Big Band
33. 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.
Ethel Merman
Phil Spector
Rockabilly
Beat
34. The words of a song.
Glenn Miller
Lyrics
Gene Autry
Form
35. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Tin Pan Alley
Crooning
Diana Ross
Polyphonic
36. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
The Beatles
Texture
Rock 'n' Roll
A cappella
37. 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
Duke Ellington
Producer
Hank Williams
Paul Whiteman
38. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Phil Spector
Buddy Holly
Harmony
Cakewalk
39. 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.
Standards
soul music
Herman Parker
Aretha Franklin
40. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Benny Goodman
R&B
Cole Porter
Diana Ross
41. Founder of Motown Records.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Berry Gordy - Jr.
phrase
Rhythm
42. 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
Irving Berlin
Bluegrass
Cover version
43. 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.
Bel canto
urban folk
Janis Joplin
Melody
44. The word derives from the African American term 'to rag -' meaning to enliven a piece of music by shifting melodic accents onto the offbeats (a technique known as syncopation). Ragtime music emerged in the 1880s - its popularity peaking in the decade
Standards
Minstrel Show
Ragtime
Patsy Cline
45. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Diana Ross
Irving Berlin
Chuck Berry
Crooning
46. 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.'
Standards
Ballad
Beach Boys
Refrain
47. 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.
sound
Diana Ross
Lyricist
12-bar Blues
48. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Crooning
Bluegrass
Cover version
Boogie Woogie
49. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Bridge
Tin Pan Alley
Chorus
A cappella
50. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Brian Wilson
Bridge
Concept album
Disc Jockeys