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performing-arts
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1. 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
Minstrel Show
Glenn Miller
Producer
Chorus
2. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Acoustic recording
Concept album
Polyphonic
Phil Spector
3. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Lyricist
Strophic
Form
Dick Clark
4. 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.
Herman Parker
Standards
Minstrel Show
Lyrics
5. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
AABA form
Ethel Merman
sound
Chorus
6. 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
Polyphonic
Irving Berlin
cadence
Minstrel Show
7. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Beat
Ray Charles
Motown
Crooning
8. 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.
Louis Armstrong
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Gene Autry
Janis Joplin
9. A person who writes the words for songs
Lyricist
Tempo
Polyphonic
Ray Charles
10. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
ASCAP
Chuck Berry
Bob Dylan
11. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Janis Joplin
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Arranger
Lyrics
12. 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.
Rock 'n' Roll
Elvis Presley
ASCAP
soul music
13. 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
Duke Ellington
Rock 'n' Roll
Race Records
Electric Guitar
14. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Bridge
Chorus
Brian Wilson
James Brown
15. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Arranger
Lyrics
Lyricist
R&B
16. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Scott Joplin
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Dick Clark
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
17. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
'The twist'
Chuck Berry
Cover version
Electronic recording
18. A recurrent rhythmical series
George Gershwin
A cappella
cadence
Elvis Presley
19. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Texture
Bob Dylan
Melody
Big Band
20. 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.'
A cappella
phrase
Arranger
Bob Dylan
21. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
cadence
A cappella
Bessie Smith
12-bar Blues
22. 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
Blues
Motown
Beat
Disc Jockeys
23. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Electric Guitar
Diana Ross
Acoustic recording
A cappella
24. 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
Cole Porter
ASCAP
Electric Guitar
Frank Sinatra
25. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
soul music
Race Records
Irving Berlin
Frank Sinatra
26. Blues piano tradition that sprang up during the early twentieth century in the 'southwest territory' states of Texas - Arkansas - Missouri - and Oklahoma. In boogie-woogie performances - the pianist typically plays a repeated pattern with his left ha
Motown
Louis Armstrong
Big Band
Boogie Woogie
27. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Arranger
Refrain
Hook
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
28. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
The Beatles
Patsy Cline
Cole Porter
Lyricist
29. 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.
Texture
Bridge
Buddy Holly
Rock 'n' Roll
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).
Ballad
Standards
Buddy Holly
Classic blues
31. 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
Crooning
Chuck Berry
R&B
AABA form
32. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
cadence
Jerry Lee Lewis
Scat singing
Louis Armstrong
33. Blues piano tradition that sprang up during the early twentieth century in the 'southwest territory' states of Texas - Arkansas - Missouri - and Oklahoma. In boogie-woogie performances - the pianist typically plays a repeated pattern with his left ha
Boogie Woogie
Chuck Berry
Rhythm
Syncopation
34. 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
AABA form
Lyricist
Hank Williams
The Rolling Stones
35. 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.
Crooning
Acoustic recording
Frank Sinatra
Standards
36. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Polyphonic
Ray Charles
'The twist'
Paul Whiteman
37. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
The Supremes
ASCAP
The Rolling Stones
38. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Strophic
A cappella
Janis Joplin
Cole Porter
39. 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
Banjo
Producer
Rock 'n' Roll
Herman Parker
40. 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.
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
ASCAP
'The twist'
41. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Bob Dylan
Cole Porter
James Brown
Scott Joplin
42. 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.
Rock 'n' Roll
Bob Dylan
The Supremes
Harmony
43. A short musical passage
phrase
R&B
Classic blues
Crooning
44. 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
motive
Bel canto
Syncopation
45. 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
Boogie Woogie
Blues
Glenn Miller
46. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Crooning
soul music
Banjo
Beat
47. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
The Supremes
Race Records
Boogie Woogie
motive
48. 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
Boogie Woogie
Gene Autry
Benny Goodman
Janis Joplin
49. 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
Major/Minor
Minstrel Show
Berry Gordy - Jr.
50. 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.
Standards
Glenn Miller
Nashville sound
Major/Minor