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Music
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performing-arts
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1. 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
Rhythm
Strophic
Electric Guitar
Paul Whiteman
2. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Big Band
AABA form
sound
Disc Jockeys
3. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
'The twist'
Frank Sinatra
Texture
Jerry Lee Lewis
4. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Cole Porter
Refrain
Herman Parker
Crooning
5. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
12-bar Blues
Lyrics
soul music
sound
6. 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.
Herman Parker
'The twist'
R&B
Nashville sound
7. 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.'
R&B
Chorus
Hook
Bob Dylan
8. 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
soul music
phrase
Rock 'n' Roll
Louis Armstrong
9. 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.
The Beatles
Nashville sound
George Gershwin
Harmony
10. 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
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Motown
Chorus
Chuck Berry
11. Beat - meter - syncopation
Ray Charles
Hook
George Gershwin
Rhythm
12. Rock group from Liverpool - England - who dominated American popular music during the mid-1960s and started the 'British Invasion.' The band included John Lennon and George Harrison on lead and rhythm guitars and vocals - Paul McCartney on bass and v
Tin Pan Alley
The Beatles
Janis Joplin
Lyricist
13. 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
James Brown
Producer
Janis Joplin
Timbre
14. 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.
Payola
Glenn Miller
Arranger
Louis Armstrong
15. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Producer
Concept album
Cole Porter
Paul Whiteman
16. Beat - meter - syncopation
Cover version
Brian Wilson
Rhythm
Reverb
17. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Refrain
The Beatles
Electric Guitar
motive
18. 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
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Blues
19. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Rockabilly
Glenn Miller
12-bar Blues
Classic blues
20. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Standards
Payola
Timbre
Verse
21. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Brian Wilson
Disc Jockeys
Rock 'n' Roll
Race Records
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.'
Beat
Strophic
'The twist'
Brian Wilson
23. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Tin Pan Alley
Rhythm
R&B
24. A recurrent rhythmical series
Rhythm
cadence
Phil Spector
A cappella
25. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Rhythm
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Rolling Stones
Concept album
26. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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27. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Harmony
Countrypolitan
Crooning
28. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Lyrics
Banjo
Tin Pan Alley
Polyphonic
29. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Beat
Payola
Refrain
Jerry Lee Lewis
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
Ethel Merman
Producer
R&B
Cakewalk
31. 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
Hank Williams
Boogie Woogie
James Brown
Bridge
32. 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.
cadence
phrase
The Supremes
AABA form
33. 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.
Lyricist
Buddy Holly
Frank Sinatra
urban folk
34. A memorable musical phrase or riff.
Hook
Duke Ellington
'The twist'
Timbre
35. 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.
A cappella
Standards
Phil Spector
Lyrics
36. 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
Electric Guitar
Standards
Producer
Ballad
37. 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
Acoustic recording
Ballad
The Rolling Stones
38. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Bridge
Nashville sound
Hank Williams
A cappella
39. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Bessie Smith
James Brown
Payola
40. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
12-bar Blues
Texture
Aretha Franklin
A cappella
41. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Minstrel Show
Strophic
Crooning
Form
42. 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
Glenn Miller
Louis Armstrong
Hank Williams
Boogie Woogie
43. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Lyricist
Sheet music
Aretha Franklin
44. A person who writes the words for songs
Arranger
Ethel Merman
Chorus
Lyricist
45. 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.
Cakewalk
motive
The Supremes
Standards
46. 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.
Herman Parker
Paul Whiteman
Tin Pan Alley
Irving Berlin
47. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Motown
Jerry Lee Lewis
Disc Jockeys
Minstrel Show
48. 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
Race Records
Scott Joplin
Chorus
Verse
49. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Banjo
Duke Ellington
Beat
Classic blues
50. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Refrain
Acoustic recording
Ragtime
Big Band