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1. 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.
Gene Autry
Irving Berlin
Les Paul
Reverb
2. 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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3. Musical texture with interlocking melodies and rhythms.
Tempo
Elvis Presley
Polyphonic
Scat singing
4. The standard form of a blues song: a twelve-bar structure made up of three phrases of four bars each; a basic three-chord pattern; and a three-line AAB text.
Lyricist
Disc Jockeys
12-bar Blues
The Supremes
5. 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.
Acoustic recording
Ethel Merman
Paul Whiteman
Scat singing
6. 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
James Brown
Rhythm
Chuck Berry
Louis Armstrong
7. 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.
R&B
Scott Joplin
Les Paul
Elvis Presley
8. 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.'
soul music
Bob Dylan
Jerry Lee Lewis
Nashville sound
9. 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
Irving Berlin
Reverb
Jerry Lee Lewis
Banjo
10. 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
motive
Scat singing
Patsy Cline
11. 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.
Producer
Reverb
Banjo
'The twist'
12. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Classic blues
Scott Joplin
Electronic recording
13. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
AABA form
Syncopation
The Beatles
'The twist'
14. 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
Rhythm
Cover version
Nashville sound
15. 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).
Glenn Miller
Ballad
Bel canto
Strophic
16. 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
Race Records
Gene Autry
Beat
Texture
17. The word derives from the African American term 'to rag -' meaning to enliven a piece of music by shifting melodic accents onto the offbeats (a technique known as syncopation). Ragtime music emerged in the 1880s - its popularity peaking in the decade
Cakewalk
Form
Ragtime
Phil Spector
18. 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
Acoustic recording
Brian Wilson
Electric Guitar
19. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Ray Charles
Cole Porter
Electronic recording
Minstrel Show
20. 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
Ethel Merman
Lyricist
Motown
Scott Joplin
21. 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
Gene Autry
Sheet music
Duke Ellington
22. Repeating section within a song - consisting of a fixed melody and lyrics repeated exactly - typically following one or more verses.
Chorus
Gene Autry
A cappella
Cakewalk
23. 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
Verse
The Supremes
Bluegrass
Minstrel Show
24. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Dick Clark
Buddy Holly
Cole Porter
Scat singing
25. 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.
Lyricist
Chorus
The Supremes
Lyricist
26. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Race Records
Motown
Form
Syncopation
27. The underlying pulse of a song or piece of music; a unit of rhythmic measure in music.
Form
Beat
Patsy Cline
soul music
28. Founder of Motown Records.
Brian Wilson
Strophic
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Buddy Holly
29. 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
Hank Williams
Elvis Presley
Aretha Franklin
Tin Pan Alley
30. 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
Bel canto
Duke Ellington
Electronic recording
Bridge
31. 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
cadence
R&B
Payola
32. 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
Scott Joplin
Tempo
Chuck Berry
The Beatles
33. 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
Aretha Franklin
Banjo
Frank Sinatra
34. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
urban folk
Timbre
Beach Boys
Major/Minor
35. 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
Ragtime
Glenn Miller
Buddy Holly
Producer
36. 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.
Rhythm
Race Records
Minstrel Show
Phil Spector
37. 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
Blues
Cole Porter
Herman Parker
Tempo
38. White rockabilly singer and pianist.
Duke Ellington
Jerry Lee Lewis
Harmony
Minstrel Show
39. 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
Electric Guitar
Minstrel Show
Banjo
12-bar Blues
40. 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.
Lyrics
Buddy Holly
Standards
motive
41. 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.'
Chuck Berry
The Rolling Stones
AABA form
Brian Wilson
42. 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.
urban folk
Payola
Nashville sound
Disc Jockeys
43. 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
Ragtime
Lyricist
Strophic
44. 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
Benny Goodman
Cakewalk
Texture
Ragtime
45. 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
Bessie Smith
The Beatles
Jerry Lee Lewis
Verse
46. 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.
Bel canto
Sheet music
Ragtime
The Beatles
47. 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.'
Ray Charles
James Brown
'The twist'
Beach Boys
48. '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.
Beach Boys
Tempo
Sheet music
Harmony
49. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Electric Guitar
Classic blues
Motown
Aretha Franklin
50. 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.'
Ballad
Beach Boys
Hank Williams
George Gershwin