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Music
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1. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Bel canto
Sheet music
Dick Clark
Ballad
2. Beat - meter - syncopation
soul music
Phil Spector
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Rhythm
3. 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.'
Scott Joplin
Beach Boys
Electric Guitar
Ethel Merman
4. 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
Verse
Beach Boys
Concept album
Producer
5. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Dick Clark
Aretha Franklin
Refrain
Harmony
6. 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
Aretha Franklin
Ragtime
Cole Porter
Texture
7. 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.
Lyricist
Sheet music
Scott Joplin
ASCAP
8. 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
Beach Boys
Benny Goodman
Frank Sinatra
soul music
9. 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
Frank Sinatra
Cole Porter
Bluegrass
motive
10. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Cover version
Big Band
Bridge
Harmony
11. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Sheet music
Ballad
Cole Porter
Countrypolitan
12. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Janis Joplin
Chorus
Ray Charles
Nashville sound
13. 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.
Ray Charles
Ragtime
Motown
Buddy Holly
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.
Tin Pan Alley
Arranger
Aretha Franklin
Refrain
15. 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).
Benny Goodman
Beat
Ballad
Ethel Merman
16. A recurrent rhythmical series
Bob Dylan
Patsy Cline
Ray Charles
cadence
17. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
R&B
Bessie Smith
Crooning
Payola
18. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Timbre
Form
phrase
Electronic recording
19. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Bluegrass
Sheet music
Cole Porter
Refrain
20. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
ASCAP
'The twist'
Blues
Beat
21. 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.
James Brown
Janis Joplin
Lyricist
Minstrel Show
22. 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
Frank Sinatra
Irving Berlin
The Rolling Stones
Nashville sound
23. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Rock 'n' Roll
Beat
Acoustic recording
Bel canto
24. 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.
Banjo
Bob Dylan
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bridge
25. 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
Glenn Miller
Major/Minor
'The twist'
Jerry Lee Lewis
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. 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.'
Glenn Miller
Rock 'n' Roll
Beach Boys
Brian Wilson
28. 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
Minstrel Show
Electric Guitar
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Melody
29. 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.
Duke Ellington
Tempo
Phil Spector
Big Band
30. 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
R&B
Race Records
Syncopation
31. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Minstrel Show
Verse
Ray Charles
Melody
32. 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
Hook
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Rockabilly
Elvis Presley
33. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Patsy Cline
Electric Guitar
Brian Wilson
Concept album
34. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Ray Charles
Producer
Tin Pan Alley
Polyphonic
35. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Lyrics
Strophic
Hook
Sheet music
36. A person who writes the words for songs
Diana Ross
Lyricist
Major/Minor
Rockabilly
37. 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
The Rolling Stones
cadence
AABA form
Benny Goodman
38. 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
Gene Autry
Cole Porter
Patsy Cline
Aretha Franklin
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.
Polyphonic
Glenn Miller
Chorus
Ray Charles
40. 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.
Arranger
Electric Guitar
Standards
Rockabilly
41. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Blues
Ethel Merman
Frank Sinatra
Syncopation
42. 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
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson
Major/Minor
43. 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.
Irving Berlin
Louis Armstrong
The Supremes
Frank Sinatra
44. 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
Concept album
Concept album
Verse
Polyphonic
45. 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
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Boogie Woogie
Scott Joplin
Ballad
46. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Lyricist
Arranger
sound
'The twist'
47. 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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48. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Hook
Concept album
Timbre
Bluegrass
49. 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
Bel canto
Crooning
Chuck Berry
Herman Parker
50. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Concept album
Dick Clark
Motown
Ballad