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1. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Rockabilly
Bob Dylan
Harmony
Herman Parker
2. 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.
Rockabilly
George Gershwin
Hank Williams
Herman Parker
3. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Nashville sound
Concept album
AABA form
motive
4. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Timbre
R&B
Aretha Franklin
Banjo
5. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Harmony
Acoustic recording
soul music
Cole Porter
6. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
'The twist'
Hank Williams
motive
7. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Bluegrass
Form
Gene Autry
8. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Chuck Berry
Timbre
Phil Spector
Irving Berlin
9. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Polyphonic
soul music
Aretha Franklin
Lyrics
10. 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
Lyrics
Brian Wilson
A cappella
Louis Armstrong
11. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Sheet music
Disc Jockeys
Standards
Phil Spector
12. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
The Beatles
Dick Clark
Crooning
Tin Pan Alley
13. A recurrent rhythmical series
Classic blues
Paul Whiteman
Phil Spector
cadence
14. 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
Lyricist
12-bar Blues
Elvis Presley
Countrypolitan
15. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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16. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Cole Porter
Producer
Jerry Lee Lewis
James Brown
17. 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
Race Records
Banjo
Diana Ross
Frank Sinatra
18. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Minstrel Show
Sheet music
Texture
Rockabilly
19. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Scat singing
Bel canto
Ray Charles
Minstrel Show
20. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Ethel Merman
Sheet music
Bessie Smith
Janis Joplin
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
Bel canto
Louis Armstrong
Boogie Woogie
Paul Whiteman
22. 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.
Phil Spector
Big Band
Scott Joplin
12-bar Blues
23. 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.
Scott Joplin
Blues
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bel canto
24. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
George Gershwin
'The twist'
Louis Armstrong
25. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Syncopation
Bessie Smith
Refrain
26. 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.
Blues
'The twist'
Texture
12-bar Blues
27. 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.
Janis Joplin
Reverb
Crooning
Refrain
28. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Hank Williams
Harmony
Boogie Woogie
29. 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.
The Supremes
Chorus
Polyphonic
Brian Wilson
30. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Race Records
sound
Ragtime
The Supremes
31. Beat - meter - syncopation
George Gershwin
A cappella
Rhythm
Ethel Merman
32. 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
Disc Jockeys
Rock 'n' Roll
Bluegrass
Banjo
33. 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
Elvis Presley
Standards
Ragtime
Bessie Smith
34. 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.
Standards
Bel canto
Les Paul
Les Paul
35. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
Beach Boys
George Gershwin
The Supremes
36. 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 Supremes
James Brown
Dick Clark
Disc Jockeys
37. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
12-bar Blues
Refrain
Scott Joplin
Syncopation
38. Motive - phrase - cadence
Janis Joplin
Rock 'n' Roll
Glenn Miller
Melody
39. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Duke Ellington
Bluegrass
Ethel Merman
40. Pianist - composer - arranger - and bandleader; widely regarded as one of the most important American musicians of the twentieth century. As a composer and arranger - he devised unusual musical forms - combined instruments in unusual ways - and creat
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Duke Ellington
Harmony
Major/Minor
41. 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.
Syncopation
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Nashville sound
42. 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
Cakewalk
urban folk
A cappella
Minstrel Show
43. 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
'The twist'
Syncopation
Ray Charles
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
Countrypolitan
Diana Ross
Blues
Banjo
45. 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.
Ballad
Gene Autry
AABA form
Texture
46. A recurrent rhythmical series
Rockabilly
cadence
Arranger
Herman Parker
47. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Ballad
Scat singing
Texture
A cappella
48. 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
Nashville sound
Blues
Irving Berlin
Cakewalk
49. 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.
Bel canto
R&B
James Brown
A cappella
50. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Rockabilly
Dick Clark
Bob Dylan
Crooning