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1. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Jerry Lee Lewis
R&B
Frank Sinatra
Acoustic recording
2. 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.
Cover version
Electronic recording
Bridge
cadence
3. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
phrase
The Rolling Stones
Minstrel Show
Jerry Lee Lewis
4. 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
Harmony
Phil Spector
Tin Pan Alley
Bluegrass
5. 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
Elvis Presley
Sheet music
Minstrel Show
Aretha Franklin
6. 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
Banjo
Classic blues
George Gershwin
A cappella
7. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
soul music
Syncopation
Texture
Nashville sound
8. 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
Buddy Holly
Acoustic recording
Buddy Holly
9. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Ragtime
The Rolling Stones
Janis Joplin
Dick Clark
10. 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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Chorus
Minstrel Show
ASCAP
11. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Timbre
'The twist'
Payola
Tempo
12. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Boogie Woogie
Ray Charles
phrase
13. 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.
The Rolling Stones
James Brown
Paul Whiteman
Major/Minor
14. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
Disc Jockeys
Blues
Jerry Lee Lewis
15. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Verse
Acoustic recording
Polyphonic
Cover version
16. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Motown
sound
Paul Whiteman
Tempo
17. 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
Boogie Woogie
Bel canto
Bob Dylan
18. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
AABA form
Beat
Syncopation
Arranger
19. 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
12-bar Blues
ASCAP
Rockabilly
Irving Berlin
20. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Acoustic recording
Rockabilly
Beat
Ragtime
21. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Verse
Texture
Elvis Presley
Timbre
22. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
cadence
Ballad
The Beatles
A cappella
23. 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
Duke Ellington
Acoustic recording
Cakewalk
24. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
sound
Scat singing
The Supremes
Classic blues
25. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Concept album
cadence
Paul Whiteman
26. 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
Cole Porter
Gene Autry
sound
Cakewalk
27. 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
'The twist'
Bridge
Motown
28. 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.
Bluegrass
AABA form
Diana Ross
Ethel Merman
29. 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
Benny Goodman
Gene Autry
Minstrel Show
soul music
30. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Producer
Benny Goodman
Hank Williams
Polyphonic
31. 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.
Beat
Race Records
AABA form
Boogie Woogie
32. 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
Hank Williams
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Motown
Form
33. A person who writes the words for songs
Beach Boys
Disc Jockeys
Classic blues
Lyricist
34. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
'The twist'
Countrypolitan
Janis Joplin
35. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Form
Jerry Lee Lewis
Acoustic recording
36. 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).
Electric Guitar
phrase
urban folk
Ballad
37. 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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38. 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.
Lyricist
The Supremes
soul music
Ray Charles
39. 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.
Lyrics
Standards
Frank Sinatra
Acoustic recording
40. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Bel canto
Phil Spector
Form
Herman Parker
41. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
ASCAP
Aretha Franklin
Electric Guitar
Refrain
42. 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.
Brian Wilson
Hook
Paul Whiteman
Glenn Miller
43. 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
Les Paul
Blues
Producer
Standards
44. 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
Hank Williams
Producer
Blues
Melody
45. 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.'
Bob Dylan
ASCAP
Brian Wilson
Sheet music
46. 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.
Major/Minor
Payola
Classic blues
Frank Sinatra
47. Motive - phrase - cadence
Louis Armstrong
Syncopation
Melody
Frank Sinatra
48. 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
Banjo
Minstrel Show
Hank Williams
Concept album
49. 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
Dick Clark
Rock 'n' Roll
Ethel Merman
50. 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
Nashville sound
Harmony
Dick Clark
Cakewalk