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1. 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).
Phil Spector
Chuck Berry
Rockabilly
Ballad
2. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Ragtime
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Scat singing
3. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Lyricist
Concept album
Acoustic recording
Race Records
4. 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
AABA form
Polyphonic
Sheet music
Scott Joplin
5. 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.
Rockabilly
Diana Ross
Cover version
Crooning
6. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Concept album
Patsy Cline
Bridge
Chuck Berry
7. Technique that involves the use of nonsense syllables as a vehicle for wordless vocal improvisation.
Patsy Cline
Harmony
Scat singing
Standards
8. The words of a song.
Lyrics
Texture
Cole Porter
Bel canto
9. 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.
Benny Goodman
Les Paul
Big Band
The Rolling Stones
10. 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) -
phrase
Ragtime
Bluegrass
George Gershwin
11. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Ballad
Texture
Acoustic recording
Ray Charles
12. 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
Louis Armstrong
Bridge
Acoustic recording
13. 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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14. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Harmony
'The twist'
ASCAP
12-bar Blues
15. 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
Hook
Electric Guitar
Bel canto
Bridge
16. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
James Brown
Rock 'n' Roll
Irving Berlin
Countrypolitan
17. 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.
Form
AABA form
Glenn Miller
Duke Ellington
18. 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
Strophic
Rockabilly
AABA form
19. 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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20. 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.
Crooning
Cakewalk
Rockabilly
sound
21. 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.
cadence
Concept album
Reverb
Classic blues
22. Africanized version of the European quadrille (a kind of square dance). The cakewalk was developed by slaves as a parody of the 'refined' dance movements of the white slave owners
Sheet music
Cakewalk
Cole Porter
Phil Spector
23. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Ragtime
Bob Dylan
Form
Payola
24. 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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25. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Acoustic recording
James Brown
Jerry Lee Lewis
ASCAP
26. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Refrain
Standards
Duke Ellington
Cover version
27. 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.
Reverb
Major/Minor
12-bar Blues
Buddy Holly
28. Illegal practice - common throughout the music industry - of paying bribes to radio disc jockeys to get certain artists' records played more frequently.
Strophic
Duke Ellington
Payola
Polyphonic
29. '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.
Melody
Elvis Presley
Tempo
12-bar Blues
30. Vocal singing without instrumental accompaniment.
A cappella
Hank Williams
Motown
Cole Porter
31. 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.
Nashville sound
Aretha Franklin
Producer
Hank Williams
32. 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
Blues
Duke Ellington
Beat
Electric Guitar
33. 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
Verse
Glenn Miller
Standards
Hank Williams
34. '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.
Big Band
Aretha Franklin
phrase
Cole Porter
35. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Boogie Woogie
Texture
The Beatles
36. The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character. Featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American mu
The Rolling Stones
Form
urban folk
Minstrel Show
37. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Boogie Woogie
Rock 'n' Roll
Bridge
Race Records
38. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Acoustic recording
Ray Charles
Producer
Electronic recording
39. 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
Bluegrass
Gene Autry
phrase
Patsy Cline
40. Popular dance ensemble during the swing era - consisting of brass - reeds - and rhythm sections.
Acoustic recording
Cover version
cadence
Big Band
41. 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
Frank Sinatra
Texture
Form
Producer
42. Africanized version of the European quadrille (a kind of square dance). The cakewalk was developed by slaves as a parody of the 'refined' dance movements of the white slave owners
Beat
Melody
Cakewalk
Rock 'n' Roll
43. Describes a song where the stanzas are all sung to the same music
motive
Strophic
Standards
A cappella
44. 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
soul music
Crooning
AABA form
45. 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.
The Rolling Stones
Ballad
Bel canto
Herman Parker
46. '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.
Frank Sinatra
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Diana Ross
Tempo
47. 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
Tin Pan Alley
Reverb
Beach Boys
Elvis Presley
48. 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.
Bridge
Bessie Smith
Nashville sound
Harmony
49. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Diana Ross
Sheet music
Boogie Woogie
Hook
50. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Verse
Minstrel Show
Timbre
The Beatles