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1. 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
Sheet music
Hank Williams
Beat
Cole Porter
2. 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.
Chorus
Harmony
Patsy Cline
Nashville sound
3. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
'The twist'
Hook
Duke Ellington
Chorus
4. 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.
Glenn Miller
Rockabilly
Polyphonic
Nashville sound
5. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
A cappella
Herman Parker
Timbre
Motown
6. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Diana Ross
Lyricist
Form
Crooning
7. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Arranger
Jerry Lee Lewis
Irving Berlin
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
8. 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
'The twist'
Reverb
Scott Joplin
Banjo
9. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Standards
Nashville sound
Elvis Presley
Beat
10. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Bob Dylan
Electronic recording
Irving Berlin
Bluegrass
11. The most successful white blues singer of the 1960s. Born in Port Arthur - Texas - Joplin came to San Francisco in the mid-1960s and joined a band called Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Chorus
Janis Joplin
phrase
Ray Charles
12. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Electric Guitar
Electric Guitar
Cover version
Chorus
13. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Bridge
Cole Porter
Brian Wilson
Berry Gordy - Jr.
14. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Producer
Big Band
Sheet music
Beat
15. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Race Records
Acoustic recording
Payola
Melody
16. Beat - meter - syncopation
Ragtime
Motown
Timbre
Rhythm
17. 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
cadence
Texture
Irving Berlin
Tin Pan Alley
18. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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19. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
James Brown
Beat
motive
Refrain
20. 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
A cappella
Elvis Presley
Ray Charles
Big Band
21. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Paul Whiteman
Scat singing
soul music
cadence
22. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Timbre
Cover version
Scat singing
Arranger
23. 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
The Beatles
R&B
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Scat singing
24. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Gene Autry
Banjo
Arranger
Chuck Berry
25. 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
Patsy Cline
Timbre
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lee Lewis
26. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Classic blues
Minstrel Show
Payola
27. 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
Bridge
12-bar Blues
Cakewalk
Harmony
28. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
A cappella
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Hook
Buddy Holly
29. 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.
Rock 'n' Roll
George Gershwin
Standards
AABA form
30. 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).
Scat singing
Ballad
The Supremes
A cappella
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.
Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
'The twist'
Lyricist
32. Bandleader for the most successful dance orchestra of the 1920s. He billed himself as the 'King of Jazz -' widened the market for jazz-based dance music - and paved the way for the Swing Era.
urban folk
Countrypolitan
Paul Whiteman
Timbre
33. 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.
Electric Guitar
The Beatles
The Supremes
Brian Wilson
34. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Gene Autry
Standards
Refrain
Tempo
35. 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.'
Beach Boys
The Supremes
Glenn Miller
Race Records
36. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Rhythm
Reverb
Major/Minor
37. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bessie Smith
Refrain
38. '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.
Rockabilly
Aretha Franklin
Melody
Janis Joplin
39. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Motown
Form
AABA form
Harmony
40. 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
Beach Boys
Syncopation
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
41. 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
The Beatles
Race Records
'The twist'
42. 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.
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
AABA form
Rhythm
43. 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
Lyricist
Irving Berlin
Arranger
Phil Spector
44. 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
Duke Ellington
Verse
Beat
Bridge
45. 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
Hook
Countrypolitan
Ballad
46. A short musical passage
Major/Minor
Melody
12-bar Blues
phrase
47. 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
Dick Clark
Bessie Smith
12-bar Blues
Scott Joplin
48. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Banjo
Patsy Cline
Phil Spector
12-bar Blues
49. 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
Rhythm
A cappella
Gene Autry
Strophic
50. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Minstrel Show
Nashville sound
Cakewalk
Strophic