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1. 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.
Payola
Ray Charles
12-bar Blues
Cover version
2. 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
Cakewalk
The Rolling Stones
Banjo
Big Band
3. 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
Cover version
Verse
Paul Whiteman
Cole Porter
4. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Refrain
A cappella
Harmony
The Rolling Stones
5. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Minstrel Show
Cover version
The Rolling Stones
Nashville sound
6. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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7. 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
The Beatles
Boogie Woogie
ASCAP
Brian Wilson
8. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Classic blues
'The twist'
R&B
Arranger
9. 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
Les Paul
Glenn Miller
Patsy Cline
Bessie Smith
10. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Bel canto
Patsy Cline
Bridge
11. 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
Beat
phrase
Minstrel Show
12. 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
Rhythm
Ballad
ASCAP
Tin Pan Alley
13. 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.
Reverb
Bob Dylan
12-bar Blues
Chuck Berry
14. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
Concept album
Minstrel Show
'The twist'
Form
15. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
Ragtime
Tempo
Gene Autry
Minstrel Show
16. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
Elvis Presley
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Bessie Smith
17. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Irving Berlin
Race Records
Cole Porter
Ethel Merman
18. 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
Bluegrass
Producer
12-bar Blues
Ray Charles
19. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Gene Autry
Beach Boys
Big Band
20. 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
Elvis Presley
Tempo
Bob Dylan
21. 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.
sound
Melody
AABA form
Ballad
22. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Electric Guitar
Beach Boys
George Gershwin
A cappella
23. 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
Lyrics
Frank Sinatra
AABA form
24. 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
Ray Charles
Frank Sinatra
Chuck Berry
25. 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.
Buddy Holly
Cakewalk
James Brown
George Gershwin
26. 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.
Form
Beat
Bridge
Race Records
27. 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
Major/Minor
Countrypolitan
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Elvis Presley
28. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Arranger
Sheet music
A cappella
Major/Minor
29. 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
Tempo
cadence
Hank Williams
Bluegrass
30. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
The Supremes
Reverb
Ethel Merman
31. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Concept album
Major/Minor
Phil Spector
Payola
32. 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.
The Rolling Stones
urban folk
Blues
Bel canto
33. 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
Electric Guitar
Ragtime
Boogie Woogie
Les Paul
34. 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
Sheet music
Reverb
Cakewalk
Cole Porter
35. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Dick Clark
Bessie Smith
Syncopation
cadence
36. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
'The twist'
Texture
Patsy Cline
37. 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
Harmony
Acoustic recording
Chuck Berry
Major/Minor
38. 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.'
Timbre
Beach Boys
Les Paul
Benny Goodman
39. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Lyricist
Electric Guitar
Refrain
40. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Les Paul
Dick Clark
Lyrics
Race Records
41. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
Chorus
Lyricist
Big Band
42. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Electronic recording
Bob Dylan
Hank Williams
Crooning
43. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Lyricist
Texture
Harmony
Gene Autry
44. 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.
Janis Joplin
Boogie Woogie
Cole Porter
Phil Spector
45. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Scat singing
Verse
Beat
46. 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.
Rock 'n' Roll
Buddy Holly
Timbre
Big Band
47. 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
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
Tempo
Motown
48. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Glenn Miller
Paul Whiteman
Classic blues
Payola
49. 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
Rockabilly
Producer
Tempo
50. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Refrain
Texture
Ray Charles
Banjo