Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Prohibition (18th Amendment) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| US women get the right to vote (19th Amendment) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Stock Market crash that initiated the Great Depression |
|
|
Term
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
|
Definition
| The only US President elected to four consecutive terms |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Oversaw the US expansion to 48 states and the completion of the Panama Canal |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Radical young US women in the 1920s who smoked, and had short bobbed hair and relatively short skirts |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| AM radio, electric microphone, 79-RPM records, movies with sound |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Stereo (2-channel) recording and playback |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| FM radio, 33-RPM stereo LP records, 45-RPM singles, commercial TV, reel-to-reel tape recording |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Delta Blues "Cross Road Blues" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Classic Blues. Radio stations started playing her, impacting popular styles with blues. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Early Gospel Music. Created by Alan Lomax. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Early Country & Western "Blue Yodel No. 8-Muleskinner Blues." Transitioned folk roots to country. Used yodeling and thumb-and-brush strumming |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Early Country & Western. The Singing Cowboy. Over 90 movies that carried the genre to audiences. Christmas songs too. |
|
|
Term
| Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys* |
|
Definition
| Early Country & Western "New San Antonio Rose." Western swing music that was more raucous. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Bluegrass. Joined Earl Scruggs |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Bluegrass. Popularized banjo playing technique of three-finger picking. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Broadway "Some Enchanted Evening" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Tin Pan Alley. Most successful figure with 1500 songs in 60 years. "God Bless America" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Tin Pan Alley. Crafted the popular standard with "Night and Day." |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Tin Pan Alley "White Christmas" |
|
|
Term
| Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers |
|
Definition
| Dance Musicals. Did 9 song-and-dance films, bringing the genre to prominence. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Folk Music "This Land is Your Land." Poor man focused on working class people during the Dust Bowl era. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Folk Music. Urban folk singer because he was born wealthy but wrote songs without personal experience or culture. Social and economic activism. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Animated Film. Most famous movie musicals of the era. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Hot Jazz "Hotter Than That." Encouraged being proud of heritage. Trumpeter-singer beginning in New Orleans, to Chicago and New York City nightclubs owned by gangters during the prohibition. Invented the scat singing style. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Big-Band Jazz "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing." Used lush harmonies and instruments to create a sensual feeling. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Big-Band Jazz. Jewish clarinetist from New York. |
|
|
Term
| Louis Jordan and His Tymphani Five |
|
Definition
| "Jump" Blues/Early R&B "Caldonia." Small horn groups. Influenced rock n roll. |
|
|
Term
| Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie |
|
Definition
| Bebop "Koko." After WWII. Small group of people improvise at high speeds. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Traditional Art Music. Classical sound based on legends and imagery from the American "Old West." |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Traditional Art Music. His Symphonic poem was premiered on national TV by NBC. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Experimental Art Music. Insurance salesperson. Stated several melodies/rhythms/keys at the same time. Quoted patriotic melodies. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Experimental Art Music. Expression and intensity by playing open strings of the piano with hands and fingernails. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Experimental Art Music. "Ionization" depicted scientific ionization of molecules through musical expansion and variation of rhythmic cells. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Experimental Art Music. Concept of prepared piano: inserted household products into the strings. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Ragtime "The Entertainer" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Broadway "Ol' Man River" from Showboat. Merged African-American blues and Anglo-American theater styles. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Relative loudness or quietness |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Horizontal presentation of pitch |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Vertical presentation of pitch |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Sound created by the instruments |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Inter-relationship of musical ideas being heard at one time |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Melody with no accompaniment |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Melody with simple chord accomaniment |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Complex interweaving of several melodies at once |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A song that has several different versus of text |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Blue Yodel No. 8 - Muleskinner Blues |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Louis Jordan and His Tymphany Five |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano |
|
Definition
|
|
