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1. 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.'
The Beatles
Hook
Brian Wilson
Strophic
2. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Ethel Merman
Diana Ross
Gene Autry
motive
3. 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.
Herman Parker
Form
Benny Goodman
Disc Jockeys
4. 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.
Frank Sinatra
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
Scott Joplin
5. 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) -
George Gershwin
Ethel Merman
Bridge
Classic blues
6. 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.
Cakewalk
Standards
Brian Wilson
Boogie Woogie
7. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Bob Dylan
Timbre
motive
8. 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
Duke Ellington
Chuck Berry
Lyrics
Bessie Smith
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
Producer
Ballad
Big Band
Bessie Smith
10. 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.
Nashville sound
Reverb
Benny Goodman
Producer
11. '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.
Aretha Franklin
Acoustic recording
Bluegrass
Melody
12. 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
George Gershwin
Janis Joplin
Louis Armstrong
13. 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.
Payola
Glenn Miller
Patsy Cline
Diana Ross
14. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
The Rolling Stones
Bridge
Race Records
Reverb
15. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Disc Jockeys
Syncopation
Rhythm
16. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Melody
Countrypolitan
Scott Joplin
Rhythm
17. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Classic blues
Electronic recording
Ballad
Polyphonic
18. 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
Louis Armstrong
Classic blues
Scott Joplin
James Brown
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.
Buddy Holly
Blues
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Disc Jockeys
20. Clarinetist and popular band leader; known as the 'King of Swing.' His popularity and the success of his band helped establish the swing era in the early 1930s. He was the first white bandleader to hire black musicians in his band
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Benny Goodman
Electric Guitar
Beach Boys
21. 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
Beach Boys
Melody
Herman Parker
Elvis Presley
22. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Scat singing
sound
Ethel Merman
Beat
23. A short musical passage
Form
Sheet music
phrase
Cover version
24. 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.'
Texture
Bob Dylan
Beach Boys
Cakewalk
25. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Cole Porter
Patsy Cline
Big Band
Standards
26. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Electric Guitar
Major/Minor
12-bar Blues
27. 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.
Glenn Miller
Cakewalk
Frank Sinatra
Banjo
28. 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.
Cakewalk
Bessie Smith
Scott Joplin
Rockabilly
29. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Buddy Holly
Scat singing
Big Band
Melody
30. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
James Brown
Texture
Minstrel Show
12-bar Blues
31. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Cole Porter
Crooning
Ethel Merman
urban folk
32. '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.
Benny Goodman
Tempo
Irving Berlin
motive
33. 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
Big Band
The Rolling Stones
Minstrel Show
Hook
34. 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.
Texture
The Supremes
Janis Joplin
Brian Wilson
35. 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.
Diana Ross
Buddy Holly
The Supremes
Bridge
36. '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.
Polyphonic
Aretha Franklin
Duke Ellington
urban folk
37. A recurrent rhythmical series
Berry Gordy - Jr.
cadence
Ethel Merman
Beach Boys
38. 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
Chuck Berry
Paul Whiteman
Patsy Cline
Sheet music
39. 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.
The Beatles
Syncopation
Bob Dylan
Phil Spector
40. 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).
Diana Ross
sound
R&B
Ballad
41. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Electronic recording
Disc Jockeys
Minstrel Show
The Rolling Stones
42. 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
Refrain
Banjo
Form
43. 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
Glenn Miller
cadence
Minstrel Show
Banjo
44. 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
phrase
Boogie Woogie
Strophic
Ray Charles
45. 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.
urban folk
A cappella
Janis Joplin
Berry Gordy - Jr.
46. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Ragtime
motive
AABA form
Form
47. 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.
Bridge
Cakewalk
Scott Joplin
Bluegrass
48. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Scat singing
Patsy Cline
Banjo
Disc Jockeys
49. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Sheet music
Bridge
Elvis Presley
Ray Charles
50. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Lyricist
George Gershwin
Dick Clark
Ray Charles
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