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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
Hook
Buddy Holly
Payola
2. 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.
Aretha Franklin
Rockabilly
Gene Autry
AABA form
3. 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
sound
Rhythm
Verse
Electric Guitar
4. 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
Crooning
Bob Dylan
12-bar Blues
Bessie Smith
5. 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
Ragtime
Timbre
Bob Dylan
A cappella
6. 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
ASCAP
Benny Goodman
Nashville sound
Bridge
7. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Cover version
Ray Charles
Aretha Franklin
Producer
8. 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.
Janis Joplin
Major/Minor
Chorus
ASCAP
9. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Hank Williams
sound
soul music
Reverb
10. Beat - meter - syncopation
12-bar Blues
Rock 'n' Roll
Dick Clark
Rhythm
11. 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.
Aretha Franklin
motive
Ethel Merman
12-bar Blues
12. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Cakewalk
Tempo
Classic blues
Buddy Holly
13. 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
Irving Berlin
Rockabilly
Louis Armstrong
Rockabilly
14. 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).
Frank Sinatra
Bluegrass
Ballad
motive
15. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Melody
12-bar Blues
Timbre
Elvis Presley
16. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Polyphonic
Jerry Lee Lewis
Tin Pan Alley
17. 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
Arranger
The Rolling Stones
Countrypolitan
18. 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.'
Cakewalk
Bob Dylan
Cakewalk
Major/Minor
19. 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.
soul music
Bel canto
phrase
Gene Autry
20. 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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21. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
James Brown
Chorus
Rockabilly
Tempo
22. 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
Brian Wilson
Scat singing
The Beatles
23. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Lyricist
Motown
24. 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
Bridge
Rockabilly
Bessie Smith
ASCAP
25. 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
Chuck Berry
Benny Goodman
phrase
Louis Armstrong
26. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
Major/Minor
Rock 'n' Roll
Boogie Woogie
sound
27. 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.
Bridge
The Beatles
Disc Jockeys
Herman Parker
28. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Rockabilly
Ray Charles
Harmony
A cappella
29. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Aretha Franklin
Gene Autry
Diana Ross
Ethel Merman
30. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Concept album
Crooning
Acoustic recording
Jerry Lee Lewis
31. 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.
Timbre
Bridge
Frank Sinatra
Diana Ross
32. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Bluegrass
Payola
Brian Wilson
Countrypolitan
33. 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) -
Crooning
Big Band
George Gershwin
Irving Berlin
34. 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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35. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Ethel Merman
Dick Clark
The Supremes
36. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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37. 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
Harmony
Major/Minor
Bob Dylan
A cappella
38. 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
Syncopation
Payola
Polyphonic
39. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
Cole Porter
Reverb
Phil Spector
40. A short musical passage
Elvis Presley
Chorus
phrase
Cover version
41. 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
Herman Parker
Timbre
Electronic recording
42. 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
phrase
Hank Williams
Cole Porter
Verse
43. 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
Janis Joplin
Buddy Holly
Chuck Berry
44. 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.
Blues
Standards
Verse
Tin Pan Alley
45. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Tempo
Polyphonic
Dick Clark
Concept album
46. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
Aretha Franklin
Classic blues
soul music
47. 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
Bob Dylan
Aretha Franklin
Berry Gordy - Jr.
R&B
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
Crooning
Standards
Blues
Chuck Berry
49. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
AABA form
Dick Clark
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Rock 'n' Roll
50. 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
Tempo
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Diana Ross