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performing-arts
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1. 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
Standards
phrase
Cover version
2. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
motive
Scat singing
Bluegrass
Minstrel Show
3. 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
Verse
AABA form
Ray Charles
Irving Berlin
4. 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.
Ethel Merman
Les Paul
Big Band
Bluegrass
5. 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
Brian Wilson
Motown
Chorus
Louis Armstrong
6. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Harmony
Cole Porter
A cappella
R&B
7. 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.
ASCAP
Cover version
AABA form
Cole Porter
8. 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
Ray Charles
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Ragtime
Melody
9. A person who writes the words for songs
Refrain
soul music
Lyricist
Ray Charles
10. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Boogie Woogie
Bridge
12-bar Blues
11. 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
Lyrics
Chuck Berry
sound
Janis Joplin
12. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Tin Pan Alley
Dick Clark
The Supremes
13. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Bob Dylan
Bessie Smith
Ray Charles
Strophic
14. Short for reverberation. An effect produced with an electronic device that adds a time delay to a sound and then adds it back to the signal.
Reverb
Texture
Boogie Woogie
Beach Boys
15. Motive - phrase - cadence
Sheet music
A cappella
Acoustic recording
Melody
16. 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.
The Beatles
Chuck Berry
Brian Wilson
Standards
17. 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
12-bar Blues
Bessie Smith
Harmony
The Rolling Stones
18. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
The Supremes
Race Records
Irving Berlin
Texture
19. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
James Brown
Beach Boys
Disc Jockeys
Bob Dylan
20. 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
Lyricist
Electric Guitar
Form
Hank Williams
21. 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
Dick Clark
Irving Berlin
Acoustic recording
22. 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
Crooning
Sheet music
Bluegrass
Berry Gordy - Jr.
23. Beat - meter - syncopation
Arranger
Gene Autry
Rhythm
Scott Joplin
24. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Disc Jockeys
Rockabilly
Patsy Cline
Cover version
25. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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26. A recurrent rhythmical series
A cappella
Rhythm
cadence
Strophic
27. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Glenn Miller
Arranger
A cappella
Beach Boys
28. 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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29. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Bob Dylan
Syncopation
Concept album
Payola
30. 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
Lyrics
Producer
Cover version
Blues
31. 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
Countrypolitan
12-bar Blues
ASCAP
Minstrel Show
32. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
Syncopation
Ballad
Cole Porter
33. 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.
AABA form
Big Band
Dick Clark
Lyricist
34. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Big Band
Irving Berlin
Nashville sound
Jerry Lee Lewis
35. Rock group from Liverpool - England - who dominated American popular music during the mid-1960s and started the 'British Invasion.' The band included John Lennon and George Harrison on lead and rhythm guitars and vocals - Paul McCartney on bass and v
The Supremes
Concept album
The Beatles
Brian Wilson
36. '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.
Janis Joplin
Chuck Berry
Producer
Tempo
37. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Hank Williams
Janis Joplin
R&B
38. 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.
Motown
Standards
Patsy Cline
Berry Gordy - Jr.
39. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Verse
sound
Aretha Franklin
Cole Porter
40. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Herman Parker
Jerry Lee Lewis
Janis Joplin
Harmony
41. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Sheet music
Cole Porter
Rhythm
42. 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
Polyphonic
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Syncopation
Producer
43. 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.
Melody
Hank Williams
Scat singing
Frank Sinatra
44. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Buddy Holly
Blues
George Gershwin
45. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Chorus
Harmony
Irving Berlin
Patsy Cline
46. 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
Verse
Les Paul
Duke Ellington
47. 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
Gene Autry
Beat
Harmony
Chuck Berry
48. 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
Diana Ross
Patsy Cline
Minstrel Show
49. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
motive
Rockabilly
Classic blues
Duke Ellington
50. 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.
George Gershwin
Rhythm
Buddy Holly
Bluegrass