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1. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
R&B
Elvis Presley
Bel canto
2. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Tin Pan Alley
Ray Charles
Texture
Bessie Smith
3. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Bessie Smith
Arranger
Harmony
Electronic recording
4. Motive - phrase - cadence
George Gershwin
Scat singing
Melody
Cover version
5. 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
Benny Goodman
Rhythm
Rhythm
Rockabilly
6. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Aretha Franklin
Paul Whiteman
Classic blues
Cakewalk
7. 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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8. A short musical passage
Lyricist
phrase
Payola
Crooning
9. '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.
Janis Joplin
Aretha Franklin
Duke Ellington
'The twist'
10. 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
Les Paul
Harmony
R&B
Brian Wilson
11. 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.
Ragtime
Frank Sinatra
Duke Ellington
Reverb
12. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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13. 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.
Bob Dylan
Herman Parker
Arranger
Polyphonic
14. 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.
Electronic recording
Boogie Woogie
Cover version
Blues
15. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Motown
Bel canto
Janis Joplin
motive
16. 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
urban folk
Brian Wilson
Bluegrass
Standards
17. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Paul Whiteman
Producer
Blues
18. 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
Bob Dylan
Beach Boys
soul music
Electric Guitar
19. 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
Glenn Miller
Minstrel Show
Tin Pan Alley
Electric Guitar
20. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
urban folk
Scat singing
Major/Minor
Ethel Merman
21. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
ASCAP
George Gershwin
sound
Polyphonic
22. A short musical passage
Chuck Berry
Benny Goodman
phrase
Benny Goodman
23. 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
Scat singing
Sheet music
cadence
24. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Rockabilly
Crooning
Scott Joplin
Polyphonic
25. 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 Beatles
Sheet music
Brian Wilson
Motown
26. 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
Scott Joplin
Cakewalk
Countrypolitan
Verse
27. 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
Bel canto
motive
Duke Ellington
Beat
28. 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
cadence
Standards
Hook
29. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Frank Sinatra
Polyphonic
Louis Armstrong
Beat
30. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Scott Joplin
Blues
Concept album
Disc Jockeys
31. 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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
motive
12-bar Blues
Rock 'n' Roll
32. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Nashville sound
Melody
Syncopation
Bessie Smith
33. 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.
A cappella
Phil Spector
phrase
Rockabilly
34. 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
Les Paul
phrase
Elvis Presley
Chorus
35. 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
R&B
Strophic
Rock 'n' Roll
36. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Louis Armstrong
Patsy Cline
James Brown
Diana Ross
37. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Electric Guitar
Rock 'n' Roll
Harmony
38. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
12-bar Blues
Concept album
Melody
39. Beat - meter - syncopation
Big Band
Reverb
Gene Autry
Rhythm
40. 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
Elvis Presley
Melody
Producer
Verse
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.
Gene Autry
Verse
Bridge
Cakewalk
42. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Louis Armstrong
Countrypolitan
Tempo
A cappella
43. 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.'
Aretha Franklin
phrase
Acoustic recording
Beach Boys
44. 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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45. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Gene Autry
Verse
Rockabilly
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
Tempo
Tempo
R&B
Tin Pan Alley
47. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Herman Parker
The Rolling Stones
Refrain
Hook
48. 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
Elvis Presley
Banjo
49. 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
Irving Berlin
Duke Ellington
ASCAP
Motown
50. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Bluegrass
Minstrel Show
Brian Wilson
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