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1. 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
Lyrics
Reverb
2. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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3. 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.
Race Records
AABA form
A cappella
Standards
4. 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.
Cover version
Harmony
Producer
Ray Charles
5. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Electric Guitar
The Rolling Stones
The Supremes
Blues
6. 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.'
Hook
Concept album
Beach Boys
Bel canto
7. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Glenn Miller
The Supremes
Boogie Woogie
Race Records
8. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Louis Armstrong
Melody
Verse
9. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Buddy Holly
Classic blues
Sheet music
Ballad
10. 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
Hook
Rhythm
Tin Pan Alley
Electric Guitar
11. 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
Electric Guitar
Verse
Verse
Jerry Lee Lewis
12. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
motive
Race Records
Form
The Rolling Stones
13. Founder of Motown Records.
Sheet music
The Beatles
R&B
Berry Gordy - Jr.
14. 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
Tempo
Countrypolitan
Producer
Hank Williams
15. 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
Beach Boys
Herman Parker
Producer
Lyrics
16. 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
Nashville sound
Boogie Woogie
Electronic recording
Ballad
17. 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.
Disc Jockeys
Glenn Miller
Motown
sound
18. 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.
Ragtime
Ragtime
Beach Boys
ASCAP
19. 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
Scott Joplin
Timbre
Sheet music
Classic blues
20. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Verse
The Beatles
Polyphonic
Ballad
21. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
soul music
Rock 'n' Roll
Patsy Cline
Bessie Smith
22. 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.'
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bob Dylan
Harmony
Disc Jockeys
23. 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
Hook
Banjo
Concept album
Boogie Woogie
24. 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
Bluegrass
Bessie Smith
Rock 'n' Roll
25. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Bob Dylan
Phil Spector
Bessie Smith
The Rolling Stones
26. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Arranger
Benny Goodman
Timbre
Paul Whiteman
27. 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
Chuck Berry
Standards
Ray Charles
28. 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
Motown
Louis Armstrong
Lyricist
cadence
29. A short musical passage
Nashville sound
phrase
The Supremes
Les Paul
30. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Louis Armstrong
Ballad
Disc Jockeys
Brian Wilson
31. 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.
Scat singing
'The twist'
Brian Wilson
Standards
32. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Arranger
Scat singing
sound
Patsy Cline
33. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Janis Joplin
Phil Spector
Cole Porter
Texture
34. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
motive
Ray Charles
Cole Porter
Electronic recording
35. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Sheet music
Ethel Merman
Hook
Bel canto
36. 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.'
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bob Dylan
sound
Aretha Franklin
37. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Paul Whiteman
Verse
Big Band
Chorus
38. '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
Verse
Blues
Big Band
39. 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.
R&B
Syncopation
Janis Joplin
Hank Williams
40. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Cole Porter
Crooning
Standards
Classic blues
41. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Classic blues
Major/Minor
Ethel Merman
Refrain
42. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Elvis Presley
Electronic recording
Scat singing
cadence
43. 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.
Classic blues
AABA form
Lyricist
Sheet music
44. 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.
Hook
James Brown
Lyrics
Lyricist
45. The musical structure of a piece of music; its basic building blocks and the ways they are combined.
Glenn Miller
Form
Irving Berlin
Producer
46. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
George Gershwin
Nashville sound
Chorus
Verse
47. '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.
Crooning
Bridge
Beach Boys
Tempo
48. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Glenn Miller
12-bar Blues
Ethel Merman
Bridge
49. 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.
Bluegrass
R&B
Bel canto
Disc Jockeys
50. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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