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1. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
Dick Clark
AABA form
Reverb
2. 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
Motown
The Supremes
Acoustic recording
Electric Guitar
3. 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
Crooning
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Diana Ross
4. 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
Banjo
Elvis Presley
Polyphonic
Dick Clark
5. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Arranger
Strophic
Cole Porter
Disc Jockeys
6. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Bluegrass
Chorus
Crooning
7. 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
Elvis Presley
Banjo
urban folk
12-bar Blues
8. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
Rockabilly
Disc Jockeys
Boogie Woogie
Diana Ross
9. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Phil Spector
Les Paul
Diana Ross
Harmony
10. 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.'
Form
Gene Autry
Jerry Lee Lewis
Brian Wilson
11. 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
Concept album
Paul Whiteman
Scott Joplin
Refrain
12. 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
Producer
Jerry Lee Lewis
Frank Sinatra
George Gershwin
13. 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).
soul music
Beach Boys
Chorus
Ballad
14. 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
Major/Minor
cadence
Patsy Cline
15. 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.
Bel canto
Lyrics
Les Paul
Patsy Cline
16. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
sound
A cappella
Buddy Holly
17. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Motown
Glenn Miller
18. 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
Duke Ellington
Nashville sound
Paul Whiteman
Ballad
19. 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
Brian Wilson
Cover version
Standards
Benny Goodman
20. '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.
Phil Spector
Aretha Franklin
A cappella
urban folk
21. A recurrent rhythmical series
cadence
Refrain
Dick Clark
12-bar Blues
22. 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
Hook
R&B
Duke Ellington
Glenn Miller
23. 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.
Chorus
Reverb
Motown
Texture
24. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Cakewalk
Major/Minor
Rhythm
Refrain
25. 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.
Cakewalk
Syncopation
Sheet music
Cover version
26. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Classic blues
Lyricist
Gene Autry
Form
27. 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
Scat singing
Gene Autry
Acoustic recording
Ray Charles
28. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
Arranger
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Form
29. 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.
Ragtime
Dick Clark
Cover version
Diana Ross
30. 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.
cadence
urban folk
ASCAP
Minstrel Show
31. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Electronic recording
Tin Pan Alley
Lyricist
Race Records
32. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Les Paul
cadence
12-bar Blues
Texture
33. Singer - songwriter - and harmonica player who achieved some success with his R&B band - Little Junior's Blue Flames; recorded 'Mystery Train' for Sam Phillips's Sun label.
Ragtime
urban folk
soul music
Herman Parker
34. 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
soul music
Bessie Smith
Chuck Berry
35. 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
Producer
R&B
Hank Williams
Rockabilly
36. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Diana Ross
urban folk
Arranger
Bessie Smith
37. 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.
Diana Ross
Standards
Rockabilly
Blues
38. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Ray Charles
Harmony
Cover version
39. 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.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Timbre
ASCAP
Elvis Presley
40. '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.
James Brown
Tempo
Electronic recording
Cole Porter
41. 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
Syncopation
Irving Berlin
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Motown
42. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Concept album
Dick Clark
Harmony
Countrypolitan
43. '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.
Sheet music
Herman Parker
Verse
Tempo
44. Founder of Motown Records.
Glenn Miller
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Minstrel Show
Strophic
45. 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.
The Beatles
Minstrel Show
James Brown
Gene Autry
46. 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.
ASCAP
Aretha Franklin
Dick Clark
Louis Armstrong
47. 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.
12-bar Blues
Paul Whiteman
Polyphonic
Bridge
48. A person who writes the words for songs
Phil Spector
Rock 'n' Roll
Lyricist
Irving Berlin
49. 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
Patsy Cline
soul music
Blues
Scott Joplin
50. '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
Polyphonic
Refrain
ASCAP
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