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1. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
Syncopation
Melody
Nashville sound
Herman Parker
2. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Bluegrass
soul music
Standards
Jerry Lee Lewis
3. 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
Cover version
Rockabilly
Electric Guitar
Motown
4. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Big Band
Disc Jockeys
Electronic recording
Bel canto
5. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Beat
Irving Berlin
Bel canto
Frank Sinatra
6. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Crooning
Glenn Miller
A cappella
Payola
7. 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.'
Race Records
Rockabilly
Beach Boys
Ethel Merman
8. 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.
Phil Spector
Beach Boys
motive
urban folk
9. 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
Frank Sinatra
Rockabilly
Janis Joplin
10. 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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11. 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
Refrain
Louis Armstrong
Motown
Bessie Smith
12. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Producer
Electronic recording
James Brown
Beat
13. 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.
Payola
Buddy Holly
cadence
Berry Gordy - Jr.
14. 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
Race Records
'The twist'
The Supremes
Chuck Berry
15. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Timbre
Ray Charles
Tin Pan Alley
AABA form
16. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Rhythm
Lyrics
Producer
Timbre
17. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
urban folk
Hook
Scat singing
Buddy Holly
18. 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
Sheet music
Gene Autry
The Rolling Stones
19. 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
Major/Minor
Frank Sinatra
Nashville sound
Louis Armstrong
20. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Cakewalk
Minstrel Show
Banjo
21. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ragtime
Ray Charles
Aretha Franklin
Bessie Smith
22. 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
Bridge
Tempo
Disc Jockeys
Irving Berlin
23. At the age of twenty-one - introduced 'I Got Rhythm' in the stage show Girl Crazy written by George Gershwin.
Sheet music
Ethel Merman
Irving Berlin
Melody
24. 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
Frank Sinatra
Brian Wilson
Banjo
Harmony
25. 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
Cakewalk
Dick Clark
26. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Refrain
Ray Charles
Concept album
Countrypolitan
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
Gene Autry
The Rolling Stones
George Gershwin
Blues
28. Introduced as a commercial and marketing term in the mid-1950s for the purpose of identifying a new target audience for musical products. Encompassed a variety of styles and artists from R&B - country - and pop music.
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29. 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
12-bar Blues
Race Records
Hank Williams
Motown
30. 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
R&B
Countrypolitan
Classic blues
Bob Dylan
31. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Strophic
Countrypolitan
Chorus
motive
32. 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.
Janis Joplin
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Form
Electric Guitar
33. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Minstrel Show
Payola
34. 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
Louis Armstrong
Form
Bluegrass
Beach Boys
35. 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
Bob Dylan
Arranger
Refrain
Elvis Presley
36. 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
Gene Autry
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Lyrics
Refrain
37. 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
Race Records
Bluegrass
12-bar Blues
Benny Goodman
38. A short musical passage
phrase
Ray Charles
Strophic
Concept album
39. 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.
Gene Autry
Strophic
Les Paul
Chorus
40. Pitched/unpitched - dynamic - timbre or tone color
sound
Phil Spector
Texture
Ballad
41. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Ballad
Rockabilly
Disc Jockeys
Timbre
42. Beat - meter - syncopation
Rhythm
Glenn Miller
Payola
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
43. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
R&B
Payola
44. '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
Banjo
sound
Polyphonic
45. 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.
Chuck Berry
Verse
Benny Goodman
The Supremes
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.
motive
Phil Spector
ASCAP
Tempo
47. 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
Race Records
Producer
Irving Berlin
Standards
48. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Cole Porter
Harmony
Big Band
Paul Whiteman
49. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Bessie Smith
Payola
Nashville sound
Polyphonic
50. 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.'
Bob Dylan
Benny Goodman
James Brown
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