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1. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Benny Goodman
Bob Dylan
Nashville sound
Beat
2. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Ragtime
Crooning
Acoustic recording
3. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Countrypolitan
Producer
Chuck Berry
Refrain
4. 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
Countrypolitan
Ray Charles
Chorus
Hank Williams
5. 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
soul music
Major/Minor
ASCAP
Jerry Lee Lewis
6. 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
Bob Dylan
Rockabilly
Buddy Holly
Verse
7. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Tin Pan Alley
Gene Autry
motive
Form
8. 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.
The Beatles
12-bar Blues
Melody
Ragtime
9. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Verse
Brian Wilson
10. A recurrent rhythmical series
Les Paul
Payola
cadence
Cover version
11. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Motown
cadence
The Rolling Stones
12. A technique used by opera singers that emphasizes breath control - a fluid and relaxed voice - and the use of subtle variations in pitch and rhythmic phrasing for dramatic effect.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bel canto
Aretha Franklin
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
13. 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
The Rolling Stones
Cover version
A cappella
14. 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.'
Blues
Paul Whiteman
Bob Dylan
Cole Porter
15. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Minstrel Show
Scat singing
The Rolling Stones
Hook
16. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Strophic
Paul Whiteman
Berry Gordy - Jr.
soul music
17. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Diana Ross
Benny Goodman
Boogie Woogie
18. 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
Major/Minor
Cakewalk
Nashville sound
Bel canto
19. 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
Phil Spector
cadence
20. 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.
'The twist'
Bluegrass
Texture
Cover version
21. 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
Reverb
Classic blues
Disc Jockeys
22. 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.'
Bridge
Brian Wilson
Lyricist
phrase
23. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
urban folk
sound
Electric Guitar
Banjo
24. 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
Minstrel Show
Verse
A cappella
Reverb
25. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Diana Ross
Refrain
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
26. 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
Chuck Berry
Race Records
Classic blues
Berry Gordy - Jr.
27. 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.
Patsy Cline
Strophic
Standards
Texture
28. 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) -
Motown
Louis Armstrong
George Gershwin
Lyricist
29. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
Timbre
Strophic
James Brown
Classic blues
30. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Countrypolitan
Crooning
Producer
George Gershwin
31. 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
Crooning
Timbre
James Brown
Tin Pan Alley
32. Born in New Orleans; a cornetist and singer - he established certain core features of jazz - particularly its rhythmic drive and its emphasis on solo instrumental virtuosity. Armstrong also profoundly influenced the development of mainstream popular
Reverb
Gene Autry
Louis Armstrong
Concept album
33. 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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34. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Hank Williams
Irving Berlin
The Beatles
Big Band
35. 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
Race Records
Minstrel Show
urban folk
36. 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.
Scat singing
soul music
Bessie Smith
The Supremes
37. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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38. Founder of Motown Records.
Phil Spector
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Disc Jockeys
soul music
39. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Banjo
cadence
Polyphonic
A cappella
40. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Paul Whiteman
Verse
Phil Spector
41. 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.
R&B
Glenn Miller
Motown
Jerry Lee Lewis
42. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Classic blues
AABA form
Syncopation
Patsy Cline
43. 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
Countrypolitan
phrase
Polyphonic
Blues
44. 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
Disc Jockeys
Sheet music
motive
Bessie Smith
45. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Race Records
Paul Whiteman
Nashville sound
Timbre
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. 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.
Scat singing
Aretha Franklin
George Gershwin
urban folk
48. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Beach Boys
AABA form
Beach Boys
Ethel Merman
49. 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.
George Gershwin
Les Paul
Classic blues
Hank Williams
50. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Motown
Patsy Cline
The Supremes
Hook
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