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1. 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.
Tempo
Cole Porter
The Supremes
Scott Joplin
2. 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.
Minstrel Show
Herman Parker
Bridge
Buddy Holly
3. 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
The Beatles
ASCAP
Disc Jockeys
Gene Autry
4. 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.
sound
Janis Joplin
Phil Spector
Disc Jockeys
5. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Cover version
Brian Wilson
soul music
Race Records
6. 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
Melody
The Beatles
Blues
7. 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
Standards
Electronic recording
Janis Joplin
8. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Harmony
Lyricist
Bob Dylan
Timbre
9. '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.
Electronic recording
Aretha Franklin
Diana Ross
urban folk
10. 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.'
Brian Wilson
Phil Spector
Motown
Tempo
11. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
soul music
Electric Guitar
Chorus
Texture
12. 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
Bob Dylan
Duke Ellington
Sheet music
Glenn Miller
13. 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.'
Tempo
Glenn Miller
Bob Dylan
Timbre
14. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Producer
Scat singing
The Supremes
'The twist'
15. 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
Bessie Smith
Berry Gordy - Jr.
James Brown
Crooning
16. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Tempo
Harmony
Classic blues
Verse
17. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Melody
Electric Guitar
Diana Ross
18. 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.
Texture
Arranger
Glenn Miller
Major/Minor
19. 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.
Blues
Chuck Berry
Bel canto
Patsy Cline
20. A guitar whose sound comes chiefly from electro-magnetic amplification The pioneer of electric blues guitar was Aaron T-Bone Walker - whose urban blues recordings just after World War II were extremely popular - Les Paul created
motive
Beach Boys
Electric Guitar
Form
21. 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.
Ray Charles
Beat
Bridge
Strophic
22. Singer - songwriter - and harmonica player who achieved some success with his R&B band - Little Junior's Blue Flames; recorded 'Mystery Train' for Sam Phillips's Sun label.
Glenn Miller
Herman Parker
Cover version
Bridge
23. 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.
Janis Joplin
Buddy Holly
Cover version
Harmony
24. 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
George Gershwin
Refrain
Tin Pan Alley
Bessie Smith
25. 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.'
Race Records
motive
Irving Berlin
Beach Boys
26. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Les Paul
Rhythm
Lyricist
Hook
27. 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
Classic blues
Diana Ross
Ragtime
Disc Jockeys
28. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Diana Ross
Timbre
AABA form
The Rolling Stones
29. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Louis Armstrong
Rock 'n' Roll
Jerry Lee Lewis
30. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
The Beatles
Texture
Payola
Concept album
31. 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
Timbre
Scott Joplin
The Supremes
Dick Clark
32. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
George Gershwin
Nashville sound
Cole Porter
Concept album
33. 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
Melody
Major/Minor
Chuck Berry
Paul Whiteman
34. 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
motive
Ragtime
Verse
Buddy Holly
35. 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.
Reverb
Patsy Cline
Rockabilly
George Gershwin
36. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
Big Band
soul music
Verse
37. 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.
12-bar Blues
Bel canto
ASCAP
Paul Whiteman
38. 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.
Big Band
Race Records
ASCAP
motive
39. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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40. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Payola
Jerry Lee Lewis
Patsy Cline
Berry Gordy - Jr.
41. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Blues
Diana Ross
cadence
Berry Gordy - Jr.
42. The words of a song.
Bessie Smith
Classic blues
Lyrics
Louis Armstrong
43. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Tin Pan Alley
Rhythm
Disc Jockeys
Hank Williams
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
Reverb
Scott Joplin
Les Paul
Nashville sound
45. 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
Scott Joplin
Jerry Lee Lewis
Tin Pan Alley
Verse
46. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
ASCAP
Cole Porter
Disc Jockeys
47. Founder of Motown Records.
motive
Irving Berlin
Cakewalk
Berry Gordy - Jr.
48. 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.
Bluegrass
Boogie Woogie
Frank Sinatra
urban folk
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.
12-bar Blues
Scott Joplin
soul music
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
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
Rock 'n' Roll
Hank Williams
Texture
Janis Joplin