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1. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Cover version
Disc Jockeys
Elvis Presley
Classic blues
2. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
12-bar Blues
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Chorus
3. 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
Bluegrass
Major/Minor
Rockabilly
Patsy Cline
4. 'Time' in Italian; the rate at which a musical composition proceeds - regulated by the speed of the beats or pulse to which it is performed.
Timbre
Tempo
Bluegrass
Frank Sinatra
5. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Standards
Race Records
Bluegrass
12-bar Blues
6. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Disc Jockeys
Electronic recording
7. 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
Scott Joplin
Major/Minor
Rockabilly
ASCAP
8. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Blues
Les Paul
Minstrel Show
Polyphonic
9. 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
sound
Acoustic recording
R&B
Irving Berlin
10. 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
Beat
Ray Charles
Hank Williams
Minstrel Show
11. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Duke Ellington
Buddy Holly
Electric Guitar
The Rolling Stones
12. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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13. 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.'
Frank Sinatra
Ethel Merman
Lyrics
Beach Boys
14. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bessie Smith
Cole Porter
'The twist'
15. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
The Supremes
Tin Pan Alley
Payola
Harmony
16. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Scat singing
Form
Ethel Merman
Minstrel Show
17. 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.
Elvis Presley
Bridge
motive
Benny Goodman
18. 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
Elvis Presley
Cover version
Cakewalk
Glenn Miller
19. 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.
Major/Minor
Lyrics
Tempo
Buddy Holly
20. 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).
Lyricist
Refrain
Melody
Ballad
21. 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
Minstrel Show
Patsy Cline
The Rolling Stones
Louis Armstrong
22. 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
Standards
Melody
Bob Dylan
Hank Williams
23. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Classic blues
Herman Parker
Les Paul
Ethel Merman
24. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Scat singing
The Rolling Stones
Beach Boys
Harmony
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
Ballad
Producer
Benny Goodman
Banjo
26. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Duke Ellington
Sheet music
Electric Guitar
27. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Race Records
Irving Berlin
Ragtime
Boogie Woogie
28. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Motown
Chuck Berry
Texture
29. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Scat singing
Texture
Crooning
Les Paul
30. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
AABA form
Motown
Verse
Bluegrass
31. 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
sound
Beat
Bob Dylan
32. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
urban folk
Tin Pan Alley
Irving Berlin
A cappella
33. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
urban folk
Buddy Holly
Les Paul
34. 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.
motive
Electronic recording
R&B
Standards
35. A guitarist and inventor - designed his own eight-track tape recorder and began in 1948 to release a series of popular recordings featuring his own playing - overdubbed to sound like an ensemble of six or more guitars.
Les Paul
The Rolling Stones
Berry Gordy - Jr.
12-bar Blues
36. 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.
The Rolling Stones
Bel canto
James Brown
Countrypolitan
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
Bessie Smith
Bob Dylan
AABA form
Hook
38. 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.
Phil Spector
12-bar Blues
Disc Jockeys
Countrypolitan
39. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
phrase
Ray Charles
Patsy Cline
Diana Ross
40. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Timbre
Ray Charles
Arranger
A cappella
41. 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
Bob Dylan
Rhythm
Paul Whiteman
Irving Berlin
42. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
urban folk
Hook
Refrain
ASCAP
43. 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.
Ethel Merman
Gene Autry
Bridge
The Beatles
44. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Nashville sound
Hank Williams
Herman Parker
Acoustic recording
45. 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
Cole Porter
Bluegrass
Rockabilly
Buddy Holly
46. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Banjo
Ray Charles
Big Band
Cakewalk
47. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
phrase
Disc Jockeys
Boogie Woogie
Major/Minor
48. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Cakewalk
Herman Parker
Berry Gordy - Jr.
49. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Blues
Syncopation
A cappella
50. 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
Irving Berlin
Bluegrass
Ragtime
Syncopation