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1. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Tempo
Hook
Rhythm
Ethel Merman
2. 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
Herman Parker
Cole Porter
Louis Armstrong
Brian Wilson
3. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Standards
Tin Pan Alley
Beat
Dick Clark
4. 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.
Bel canto
ASCAP
12-bar Blues
Paul Whiteman
5. 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
The Beatles
Cole Porter
Rockabilly
6. 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.'
Gene Autry
Tempo
Patsy Cline
Bob Dylan
7. 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
Gene Autry
Motown
Benny Goodman
'The twist'
8. 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
Ray Charles
Chuck Berry
Payola
Motown
9. 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
Chuck Berry
Verse
Motown
10. The B section of AABA song form found in the refrain of a Tin Pan Alley song. The bridge presents new material: a new melody - chord changes - and lyrics.
The Beatles
12-bar Blues
Herman Parker
Bridge
11. 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.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Hank Williams
Bel canto
Bob Dylan
12. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Verse
Sheet music
Texture
Harmony
13. 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.
Standards
Aretha Franklin
ASCAP
Rockabilly
14. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Reverb
Melody
Chorus
Blues
15. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Beat
Paul Whiteman
Electronic recording
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
16. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Blues
Scott Joplin
Melody
17. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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18. A recurrent rhythmical series
Cakewalk
The Supremes
cadence
Timbre
19. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
phrase
Beat
George Gershwin
Major/Minor
20. 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
Paul Whiteman
Irving Berlin
Big Band
Boogie Woogie
21. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Bessie Smith
James Brown
Boogie Woogie
22. Blues piano tradition that sprang up during the early twentieth century in the 'southwest territory' states of Texas - Arkansas - Missouri - and Oklahoma. In boogie-woogie performances - the pianist typically plays a repeated pattern with his left ha
Diana Ross
Elvis Presley
Boogie Woogie
Les Paul
23. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Rhythm
Disc Jockeys
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ray Charles
24. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
sound
Hank Williams
Polyphonic
25. 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
Cover version
Brian Wilson
Electric Guitar
Banjo
26. 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
Glenn Miller
The Beatles
Lyricist
Bluegrass
27. 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
Louis Armstrong
Syncopation
Tin Pan Alley
28. 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.
Reverb
urban folk
ASCAP
Paul Whiteman
29. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Cakewalk
Refrain
Rhythm
30. 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
phrase
The Beatles
Glenn Miller
Rockabilly
31. 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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32. The B section of AABA song form found in the refrain of a Tin Pan Alley song. The bridge presents new material: a new melody - chord changes - and lyrics.
Bridge
Patsy Cline
Buddy Holly
Bob Dylan
33. A short musical passage
phrase
Beach Boys
Form
Hook
34. 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
phrase
Sheet music
Bel canto
Louis Armstrong
35. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Cover version
Sheet music
Duke Ellington
James Brown
36. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Big Band
Ethel Merman
Minstrel Show
37. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Standards
Syncopation
Race Records
Buddy Holly
38. 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
Cakewalk
Bob Dylan
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Supremes
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
Reverb
R&B
The Rolling Stones
Gene Autry
40. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Lyrics
Concept album
Minstrel Show
Syncopation
41. 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
motive
Tin Pan Alley
Bluegrass
Producer
42. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Patsy Cline
Dick Clark
Janis Joplin
Diana Ross
43. 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
Cover version
Elvis Presley
Cole Porter
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
44. A recurrent rhythmical series
'The twist'
The Beatles
Dick Clark
cadence
45. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
AABA form
Ballad
Race Records
46. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Classic blues
Bob Dylan
Herman Parker
Jerry Lee Lewis
47. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Motown
Arranger
Sheet music
Buddy Holly
48. 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.
Irving Berlin
Strophic
The Beatles
Buddy Holly
49. 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
Timbre
Verse
Cover version
Benny Goodman
50. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Polyphonic
Bob Dylan
Scott Joplin
Ray Charles
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