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1. '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.
Tempo
Gene Autry
Ragtime
Scott Joplin
2. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Harmony
Melody
Dick Clark
Strophic
3. 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
Louis Armstrong
Boogie Woogie
Race Records
Tin Pan Alley
4. 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.
Major/Minor
Reverb
The Beatles
Hank Williams
5. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
George Gershwin
Hank Williams
Chorus
Elvis Presley
6. 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
Producer
Janis Joplin
Disc Jockeys
7. 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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8. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Dick Clark
Elvis Presley
AABA form
Ethel Merman
9. 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
Bridge
Duke Ellington
Refrain
Gene Autry
10. A short musical passage
Motown
Chorus
phrase
sound
11. 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
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Cole Porter
Minstrel Show
Bridge
12. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Major/Minor
Sheet music
Concept album
Hank Williams
13. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Big Band
James Brown
sound
Diana Ross
14. '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
Cover version
Lyricist
sound
15. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Hook
Countrypolitan
urban folk
Rock 'n' Roll
16. 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
Countrypolitan
Arranger
Major/Minor
Race Records
17. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
phrase
Glenn Miller
Scat singing
Big Band
18. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Elvis Presley
Hank Williams
Patsy Cline
Duke Ellington
19. 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
Producer
Buddy Holly
Les Paul
Cakewalk
20. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
12-bar Blues
Patsy Cline
Electronic recording
Refrain
21. 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
Brian Wilson
Ragtime
Louis Armstrong
Concept album
22. A version of a previously recorded performance; often an adaptation of the original's style and sensibility - and usually aimed at cashing in on its success.
Cover version
Standards
Ray Charles
Ballad
23. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Refrain
soul music
Disc Jockeys
Syncopation
24. 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
Minstrel Show
Bob Dylan
A cappella
James Brown
25. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Payola
ASCAP
Acoustic recording
'The twist'
26. 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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27. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Disc Jockeys
The Supremes
Arranger
28. 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.
Blues
Frank Sinatra
Banjo
Syncopation
29. Founder of Motown Records.
sound
Berry Gordy - Jr.
phrase
Cakewalk
30. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Rockabilly
Bluegrass
Form
Strophic
31. 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
Hook
Bel canto
Producer
Scott Joplin
32. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Minstrel Show
Sheet music
Frank Sinatra
Disc Jockeys
33. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Janis Joplin
Polyphonic
Arranger
The Supremes
34. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Big Band
urban folk
Dick Clark
Rhythm
35. 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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36. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Phil Spector
Lyrics
Cole Porter
Reverb
37. 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
Rock 'n' Roll
Payola
Blues
Aretha Franklin
38. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Arranger
Rockabilly
Acoustic recording
Lyricist
39. 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.
Banjo
Glenn Miller
Refrain
Electric Guitar
40. Beat - meter - syncopation
Texture
AABA form
phrase
Rhythm
41. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Blues
Reverb
A cappella
Chuck Berry
42. 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
Payola
Cole Porter
Berry Gordy - Jr.
43. 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
Ballad
Payola
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
44. 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
Chuck Berry
Banjo
Boogie Woogie
sound
45. A version of a previously recorded performance; often an adaptation of the original's style and sensibility - and usually aimed at cashing in on its success.
Cover version
Bessie Smith
Blues
Minstrel Show
46. 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
Refrain
Form
Paul Whiteman
47. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Gene Autry
Race Records
Phil Spector
Boogie Woogie
48. 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
Ballad
phrase
Melody
49. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Electronic recording
urban folk
Scat singing
ASCAP
50. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Janis Joplin
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Texture
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