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1. 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.
Melody
Hank Williams
Bridge
soul music
2. A person who writes the words for songs
Disc Jockeys
Timbre
Lyricist
Berry Gordy - Jr.
3. The scale systems central to Western music; a series of pitches organized in a specific order of whole- and half-step intervals. The major scale can give music a feeling of openness and brightness - whereas a minor scale can give music the feeling of
sound
Major/Minor
Rhythm
Hank Williams
4. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Patsy Cline
Lyricist
Classic blues
Bluegrass
5. 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.
Reverb
Ragtime
'The twist'
Frank Sinatra
6. 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.
Aretha Franklin
Electronic recording
Chuck Berry
Rockabilly
7. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Phil Spector
The Beatles
Form
Patsy Cline
8. 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
Phil Spector
Form
phrase
Bluegrass
9. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Ragtime
AABA form
soul music
Polyphonic
10. Motive - phrase - cadence
Melody
Aretha Franklin
Ethel Merman
Bluegrass
11. Beat - meter - syncopation
Texture
Louis Armstrong
Banjo
Rhythm
12. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Dick Clark
Motown
Elvis Presley
Minstrel Show
13. 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
Concept album
Chorus
motive
Blues
14. A short musical passage
phrase
Verse
James Brown
Big Band
15. Chord - consonance - dissonance
12-bar Blues
cadence
Harmony
Ethel Merman
16. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
R&B
Sheet music
Cole Porter
motive
17. 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.
Ballad
Bel canto
Blues
Brian Wilson
18. 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.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Bel canto
Ragtime
AABA form
19. 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
Payola
Race Records
Payola
The Beatles
20. 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
Refrain
Standards
Verse
Elvis Presley
21. The words of a song.
Lyrics
phrase
12-bar Blues
Louis Armstrong
22. Played records and provided entertaining patter on the radio.
Rhythm
Disc Jockeys
Louis Armstrong
Hank Williams
23. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
Standards
Cole Porter
Syncopation
Janis Joplin
24. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Frank Sinatra
Cover version
The Supremes
25. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song using a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple - hip-swiveling dance step.
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26. Founder of Motown Records.
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Melody
Boogie Woogie
27. 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.
Minstrel Show
12-bar Blues
Reverb
Glenn Miller
28. '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
Elvis Presley
The Rolling Stones
Bel canto
29. A recurrent rhythmical series
Countrypolitan
Banjo
Electronic recording
cadence
30. 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
Syncopation
Janis Joplin
Producer
Tin Pan Alley
31. Blues written by professional songwriters and performed by professional female blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Electronic recording
Acoustic recording
Classic blues
Rockabilly
32. Host of the popular teen-oriented television show American Bandstand
Major/Minor
Phil Spector
Dick Clark
Strophic
33. 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
Harmony
Glenn Miller
AABA form
34. Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced mainly for sale to African American listeners.
The Supremes
George Gershwin
Gene Autry
Race Records
35. 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
Timbre
Louis Armstrong
Race Records
Benny Goodman
36. Chord - consonance - dissonance
Tin Pan Alley
Lyrics
Harmony
Diana Ross
37. 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.
Les Paul
Rockabilly
Producer
phrase
38. 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.'
Beach Boys
Timbre
Boogie Woogie
Crooning
39. 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
Nashville sound
R&B
Herman Parker
Bessie Smith
40. 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) -
12-bar Blues
Bel canto
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
George Gershwin
41. Blues piano tradition that sprang up during the early twentieth century in the 'southwest territory' states of Texas - Arkansas - Missouri - and Oklahoma. In boogie-woogie performances - the pianist typically plays a repeated pattern with his left ha
Countrypolitan
Boogie Woogie
Nashville sound
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
42. Born into a wealthy family in Indiana; studied classical music at Yale - Harvard - and the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
Major/Minor
Duke Ellington
Cole Porter
Bob Dylan
43. 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.
Refrain
Cole Porter
ASCAP
Rockabilly
44. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit.
Motown
Form
Electric Guitar
Form
45. A style of singing made possible by the invention of the microphone. It involves an intimate approach to vocal timbre.
Lyricist
Crooning
Concept album
12-bar Blues
46. 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.
The Supremes
Nashville sound
motive
Refrain
47. 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
Harmony
Cole Porter
Arranger
Cakewalk
48. The words of a song.
Big Band
Rock 'n' Roll
Ragtime
Lyrics
49. The principal medium for disseminating popular sings until the advent of recording in the 1890s.
Sheet music
urban folk
Ragtime
Ragtime
50. The quality of a sound - sometimes called 'tone color.'
Duke Ellington
Berry Gordy - Jr.
Timbre
Louis Armstrong