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performing-arts
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1. 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
R&B
Chuck Berry
The Beatles
2. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Rock 'n' Roll
Hook
Les Paul
3. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Ethel Merman
Dick Clark
Paul Whiteman
4. 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
Chorus
Verse
Producer
Polyphonic
5. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Countrypolitan
Ray Charles
Producer
Crooning
6. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Jerry Lee Lewis
A cappella
Big Band
motive
7. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Patsy Cline
8. Beat - meter - syncopation
Chorus
Elvis Presley
Rhythm
Motown
9. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Les Paul
Minstrel Show
Timbre
Verse
10. 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.
Payola
Louis Armstrong
Rock 'n' Roll
urban folk
11. 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
Verse
Irving Berlin
Tin Pan Alley
The Rolling Stones
12. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
Beat
Arranger
Ragtime
13. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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14. 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
Electronic recording
R&B
Ragtime
Texture
15. 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
Minstrel Show
Classic blues
Tin Pan Alley
Blues
16. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Concept album
Cakewalk
Chorus
Strophic
17. 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.
Aretha Franklin
Standards
Payola
Rockabilly
18. 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
Big Band
Electronic recording
Cakewalk
Dick Clark
19. 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
Verse
Buddy Holly
Banjo
Boogie Woogie
20. 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
Benny Goodman
Hank Williams
Blues
Lyricist
21. A guitarist and inventor - designed his own eight-track tape recorder and began in 1948 to release a series of popular recordings featuring his own playing - overdubbed to sound like an ensemble of six or more guitars.
cadence
Les Paul
George Gershwin
Concept album
22. Vigorous form of country and western music informed by the rhythms of black R&B and electric blues. Exemplified by artists such as Carl Perkins and the young Elvis Presley.
Rockabilly
Nashville sound
Acoustic recording
Diana Ross
23. A guitarist and inventor - designed his own eight-track tape recorder and began in 1948 to release a series of popular recordings featuring his own playing - overdubbed to sound like an ensemble of six or more guitars.
Scott Joplin
Les Paul
Gene Autry
phrase
24. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Refrain
sound
Boogie Woogie
25. 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.
Phil Spector
Scat singing
Bridge
Electronic recording
26. 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) -
soul music
Chuck Berry
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
27. '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
Bridge
ASCAP
Janis Joplin
28. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Janis Joplin
Frank Sinatra
Herman Parker
29. Founder of Motown Records.
Rock 'n' Roll
Irving Berlin
Berry Gordy - Jr.
urban folk
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
Bob Dylan
Cakewalk
Arranger
Irving Berlin
31. 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
Bluegrass
The Beatles
Banjo
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
32. 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.
Melody
George Gershwin
Buddy Holly
Berry Gordy - Jr.
33. 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
Timbre
Major/Minor
Ethel Merman
Form
34. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Ethel Merman
Scott Joplin
A cappella
Acoustic recording
35. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Scat singing
Tin Pan Alley
Jerry Lee Lewis
Patsy Cline
36. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Bridge
A cappella
Disc Jockeys
The Rolling Stones
37. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Verse
The Supremes
The Rolling Stones
Harmony
38. 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
Rhythm
Syncopation
Rockabilly
39. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Rock 'n' Roll
Boogie Woogie
Chorus
Timbre
40. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Classic blues
Countrypolitan
Cole Porter
Paul Whiteman
41. 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.
Paul Whiteman
The Supremes
Motown
Hook
42. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Major/Minor
'The twist'
Concept album
43. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Beat
Buddy Holly
The Rolling Stones
Texture
44. 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
Janis Joplin
Blues
Scat singing
12-bar Blues
45. 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.
The Rolling Stones
Dick Clark
Phil Spector
Sheet music
46. 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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47. 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
A cappella
Minstrel Show
Disc Jockeys
Scott Joplin
48. 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.
Frank Sinatra
George Gershwin
Beat
Reverb
49. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Race Records
The Beatles
Polyphonic
phrase
50. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Boogie Woogie
Lyrics
Big Band
Hook