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1. 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.
Standards
Scott Joplin
Cover version
Paul Whiteman
2. 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
Cover version
Boogie Woogie
Rock 'n' Roll
3. The leader and guiding spirit of the Beach Boys during their first decade. He wrote and produced many of the Beach Boys' biggest hits - including 'Good Vibrations.'
Concept album
Brian Wilson
Ballad
Payola
4. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Disc Jockeys
Tempo
Form
Janis Joplin
5. 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.
Buddy Holly
Patsy Cline
Ethel Merman
motive
6. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Crooning
Payola
Major/Minor
7. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Lyricist
A cappella
Aretha Franklin
Electronic recording
8. 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
A cappella
Les Paul
Major/Minor
Berry Gordy - Jr.
9. 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.
Aretha Franklin
Electronic recording
Syncopation
The Supremes
10. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Frank Sinatra
Form
Les Paul
Hook
11. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Race Records
The Beatles
Janis Joplin
Duke Ellington
12. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Brian Wilson
Race Records
Lyrics
Beat
13. 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
Beach Boys
Bridge
Bessie Smith
James Brown
14. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Ray Charles
R&B
Syncopation
15. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Polyphonic
sound
Disc Jockeys
The Beatles
16. 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
Harmony
Form
Bridge
17. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Payola
Lyrics
Beat
Cakewalk
18. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
sound
Cakewalk
Aretha Franklin
19. 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.
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley
Lyricist
Cover version
20. 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.
AABA form
Motown
Polyphonic
cadence
21. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Minstrel Show
Phil Spector
Producer
22. 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.
Rock 'n' Roll
Les Paul
AABA form
Bridge
23. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
George Gershwin
Rockabilly
Scott Joplin
Countrypolitan
24. 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.
Standards
soul music
Phil Spector
12-bar Blues
25. 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.
Cakewalk
Motown
Janis Joplin
Patsy Cline
26. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Gene Autry
Ray Charles
Gene Autry
Concept album
27. 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
Polyphonic
Gene Autry
Ethel Merman
28. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Chuck Berry
Scat singing
Rockabilly
Harmony
29. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Form
Payola
Les Paul
Race Records
30. A person who writes the words for songs
Cole Porter
Diana Ross
Cakewalk
Lyricist
31. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
Texture
James Brown
phrase
32. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Patsy Cline
Form
Polyphonic
33. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Patsy Cline
Arranger
Bel canto
A cappella
34. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Classic blues
Producer
Cole Porter
Patsy Cline
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.
Frank Sinatra
Irving Berlin
Syncopation
The Beatles
36. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Refrain
Lyricist
Diana Ross
Chuck Berry
37. A person who writes the words for songs
Syncopation
Irving Berlin
Lyricist
'The twist'
38. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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39. 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.
Bridge
A cappella
Reverb
40. 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.
Dick Clark
Rock 'n' Roll
Glenn Miller
Lyrics
41. 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
soul music
Aretha Franklin
Hook
Bluegrass
42. 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
James Brown
Duke Ellington
Diana Ross
sound
43. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Crooning
George Gershwin
Bob Dylan
Acoustic recording
44. 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.
urban folk
Lyrics
Rockabilly
Blues
45. 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
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Crooning
Rock 'n' Roll
Benny Goodman
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.
Arranger
A cappella
Standards
Minstrel Show
47. 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
Cole Porter
Verse
Brian Wilson
ASCAP
48. '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.
Aretha Franklin
The Supremes
Bel canto
Acoustic recording
49. 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
Nashville sound
Minstrel Show
Bessie Smith
soul music
50. 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
Aretha Franklin
Les Paul
'The twist'
Boogie Woogie