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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.
Beach Boys
Paul Whiteman
Cole Porter
Nashville sound
2. 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
Chuck Berry
Louis Armstrong
Big Band
Cover version
3. 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.
Race Records
Refrain
Rockabilly
Standards
4. 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.
Standards
sound
Acoustic recording
James Brown
5. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Electronic recording
Refrain
Bob Dylan
Classic blues
6. 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.'
George Gershwin
Hook
Reverb
Bob Dylan
7. 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
Banjo
Janis Joplin
A cappella
Cakewalk
8. 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
The Supremes
Scott Joplin
cadence
Electric Guitar
9. 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
phrase
urban folk
The Rolling Stones
Blues
10. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Verse
Motown
Louis Armstrong
Melody
11. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Bessie Smith
Diana Ross
Concept album
Race Records
12. 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
Glenn Miller
AABA form
Beach Boys
13. The words of a song.
soul music
Strophic
Scat singing
Lyrics
14. 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.
urban folk
Scat singing
Frank Sinatra
Phil Spector
15. 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.'
Brian Wilson
Herman Parker
ASCAP
Race Records
16. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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17. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
'The twist'
Sheet music
Crooning
Elvis Presley
18. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
The Rolling Stones
Irving Berlin
Classic blues
Benny Goodman
19. '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.
Tempo
Brian Wilson
Bluegrass
Bel canto
20. The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Major/Minor
James Brown
Texture
Verse
21. 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
Standards
Gene Autry
Brian Wilson
Bluegrass
22. 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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23. A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to songs to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble.
Elvis Presley
Rockabilly
Arranger
Lyricist
24. Bandleader for the most successful dance orchestra of the 1920s. He billed himself as the 'King of Jazz -' widened the market for jazz-based dance music - and paved the way for the Swing Era.
Paul Whiteman
Electronic recording
Payola
Electronic recording
25. The B section of AABA song form found in the refrain of a Tin Pan Alley song. The bridge presents new material: a new melody - chord changes - and lyrics.
Beat
Irving Berlin
Paul Whiteman
Bridge
26. 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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27. In the verse-refrain song - the refrain is the 'main part' of the song - usually constructed in AABA or ABAC form.
Duke Ellington
Dick Clark
Refrain
Electric Guitar
28. Developed in 1925 using a new device - the microphone. Electric recording converts sounds into electrical signals.
Electronic recording
Bob Dylan
Paul Whiteman
Reverb
29. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
Lyrics
Arranger
Lyricist
Race Records
30. 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
Jerry Lee Lewis
Scott Joplin
Hank Williams
31. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Beat
Boogie Woogie
motive
Chorus
32. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Hook
Duke Ellington
Jerry Lee Lewis
Gene Autry
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.
Bessie Smith
Minstrel Show
Herman Parker
Ragtime
34. 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.
Hook
Classic blues
Standards
urban folk
35. A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Crooning
Concept album
Verse
motive
36. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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37. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Gene Autry
Boogie Woogie
Sheet music
Motown
38. '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.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Blues
Tempo
Banjo
39. Process for recording sound in the pre-microphone era. Performers projected into a huge megaphone.
Acoustic recording
Phil Spector
Cover version
Melody
40. Motive - phrase - cadence
Tin Pan Alley
Countrypolitan
Arranger
Melody
41. 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) -
Ballad
Cole Porter
George Gershwin
The Supremes
42. 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
Arranger
George Gershwin
The Beatles
Electronic recording
43. 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.'
Glenn Miller
Cover version
Beach Boys
Arranger
44. A British rock group who cultivated an image as 'bad boys' in deliberate contrast to the friendly public image projected by the Beatles.
Blues
motive
Cover version
The Rolling Stones
45. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Syncopation
12-bar Blues
Electric Guitar
Paul Whiteman
46. Album conceived as an integrated whole - with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.
Concept album
12-bar Blues
Cover version
Syncopation
47. 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.
Refrain
Reverb
James Brown
Hook
48. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Irving Berlin
soul music
motive
Harmony
49. The lead singer for the Supremes. After leaving the Supremes in 1970 - she became a successful solo artist.
motive
Diana Ross
Syncopation
R&B
50. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Disc Jockeys
Nashville sound
urban folk
Ray Charles
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