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performing-arts
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1. 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
Verse
Form
'The twist'
Sheet music
2. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Countrypolitan
Electronic recording
Aretha Franklin
3. 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.
Janis Joplin
Tin Pan Alley
Paul Whiteman
Phil Spector
4. 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.
Rockabilly
Ballad
Lyricist
Concept album
5. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
A cappella
Refrain
Countrypolitan
The Supremes
6. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Major/Minor
Reverb
Janis Joplin
7. 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
Duke Ellington
Scott Joplin
Brian Wilson
8. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Cole Porter
Polyphonic
Bluegrass
Boogie Woogie
9. 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.
A cappella
Aretha Franklin
Concept album
12-bar Blues
10. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
ASCAP
Duke Ellington
Big Band
The Rolling Stones
11. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Arranger
Ragtime
Ballad
Major/Minor
12. 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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13. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Beat
R&B
Harmony
Verse
14. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Aretha Franklin
Nashville sound
Electronic recording
15. 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).
Harmony
motive
Ballad
Herman Parker
16. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Diana Ross
A cappella
Bob Dylan
sound
17. The scale systems central to Western music; a series of pitches organized in a specific order of whole- and half-step intervals. The major scale can give music a feeling of openness and brightness - whereas a minor scale can give music the feeling of
Cover version
Major/Minor
soul music
Reverb
18. 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.'
Aretha Franklin
Bob Dylan
Bridge
Big Band
19. 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
Ragtime
Timbre
Boogie Woogie
Refrain
20. Motive - phrase - cadence
Reverb
Sheet music
Bob Dylan
Melody
21. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
AABA form
motive
ASCAP
Bluegrass
22. 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
Louis Armstrong
Gene Autry
Rhythm
Duke Ellington
23. 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
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Benny Goodman
Producer
24. 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.
The Supremes
Polyphonic
Herman Parker
R&B
25. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Concept album
Beach Boys
Motown
Rhythm
26. A short musical passage
Rhythm
phrase
Rock 'n' Roll
Motown
27. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Crooning
Blues
Cakewalk
28. 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.
Phil Spector
Aretha Franklin
Disc Jockeys
urban folk
29. A recurrent rhythmical series
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Herman Parker
cadence
Tin Pan Alley
30. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Verse
Boogie Woogie
Concept album
Chuck Berry
31. 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) -
Sheet music
Disc Jockeys
Classic blues
George Gershwin
32. Beat - meter - syncopation
Acoustic recording
Timbre
Rhythm
Phil Spector
33. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Hook
Nashville sound
Timbre
Race Records
34. 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
Producer
Nashville sound
Les Paul
Harmony
35. 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
Polyphonic
Bel canto
Beat
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. 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
Elvis Presley
Bessie Smith
Cover version
Motown
38. 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.
Les Paul
Polyphonic
Janis Joplin
Hook
39. 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
Irving Berlin
Acoustic recording
Buddy Holly
Ray Charles
40. African American musical genre that emerged after World War II. Consisted of a loose cluster of styles derived from black musical traditions - characterized by energetic and hard-swinging rhythms. At first performed exclusively by black musicians for
Les Paul
Reverb
Countrypolitan
R&B
41. A recurrent rhythmical series
Cover version
cadence
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Strophic
42. 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.
Concept album
AABA form
Timbre
Elvis Presley
43. Popularly known as the 'Mother of the Blues -' was the first of the great women blues singers and had a direct influence on Bessie Smith.
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44. 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.
Arranger
Diana Ross
Bel canto
Harmony
45. 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
Nashville sound
Ethel Merman
Patsy Cline
46. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Timbre
Aretha Franklin
Big Band
47. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Benny Goodman
Acoustic recording
sound
Verse
48. 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
Tempo
Beat
Chorus
49. Founder of Motown Records.
Lyrics
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Refrain
Duke Ellington
50. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Les Paul
Refrain