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MUS 3500 Midterm
American Music Midterm
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Undergraduate 3
02/19/2017

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Rhythm
Definition
The aspect of time in music
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Beat
Definition
Pulse
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Tempo
Definition
How fast or slow the beat moves
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Meter
Definition
Beats organized into recurring patterns such as "4/4"
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Scynopation
Definition
accenting the "offbeats"
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Dynamics
Definition
The relative loudness or quietness of music
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Melody
Definition
The horizontal presentation of pitch
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Harmony
Definition
The vertical presentation of pitch
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Chord
Definition
A block simultaneously-sounding musical picthes
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Consonance
Definition
Harmony that is smooth sounding
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Dissonance
Definition
Harmony that is harsh sounding
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Tone Color
Definition
The sound created by type of instruments/voices used
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Texture
Definition
The inter-relationship of musical ideas being heard at one time
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Monophonic
Definition
A melody with no accompaniment
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Homophonic
Definition
A melody with simple chord accompaniment
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Polyphonic
Definition
A complex interweaving of several melodies at once
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Form
Definition
The large scale design of a musical composition
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Binary
Definition
AB form
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Ternary
Definition
ABA form
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Strophic
Definition
A song that has several different verses of text
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American Music
Definition
Music styles that are native to the United States or that developed here out of foreign traditions to such a degree that something distinctly new emerged
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Roots Music
Definition
Various types of folk music
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Popular Music
Definition
Music conceived and performed as a commercial commodity for mainstream audiences
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Classical Music
Definition
Art-music intended for a concert hall or theatrical performance, or music that is highly experimental
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The Elements of Music
Definition
Rhythm, dynamics, melody, harmony, tone color, texture, and form
Term
Cover
Definition
A version of a song not done by the original artist
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12-Bar Blues
Definition
A standard blues structural design that has a I-IV-V-I chord/harmony pattern
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Appalachia
Definition
a 12-state region of the eastern and southern US where much of America's folk music traditions come from
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Atonal Music
Definition
Music that intentionally avoids a home key and dissonant
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Barbershop Quartet
Definition
A men's group that sings in tight-4-part harmony,typically dressed in straw "boater" hats and vertical red and white striped vests.
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Cajun Music
Definition
Southern Louisiana music of French Acadian origin
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Classic Blues
Definition
An early style of commercial blues that began in the 1920's as performed by small groups with a black female singer accompanied by a pianist
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Cowboy Songs
Definition
Traditional songs of the old American West
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Delta Blues
Definition
An early type of raw commercial blues that developed in the area from Memphis, TN to Vicksburg, MS, represented by the music of Robert Johnson
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Electric Microphone
Definition
A major breakthrough in 1925 that made it possible to capture more realistic sound to playback on electric phonographs and add sound to motion pictures
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Gramophone
Definition
The earliest version of the phonograph
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Grand Ole Opry
Definition
A staged music concert featuring country stars that has run in Nashville, TN every week since 1925
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Hot Jazz
Definition
An early style of Dixieland Jazz made famous by trumpeter-singer, Louis Armstrong
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Mistrelsy
Definition
A mid to late 1800 type of American live variety show with comic skits, music, and dancing, usually done by white performers wearing blackface makeup
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Musical Comedy
Definition
A light, humorous staged theatrical play with songs and dancing
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Old-Time Music
Definition
A type of Appalachian folk music played on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bass, dulcimer, harmonica, jaw harp, accordion, jugs, washboards, and spoons
Term
Player Piano
Definition
A mechanized upright piano that could perform music by itself from a perforated piano roll recording
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Race Music
Definition
A term put directly on record labels in the 1920's and 1930's by small, independent companies that marketed black roots music specifically to African-American listeners
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Ragtime
Definition
A style of lively, syncopate, early 1900's piano music made famous by Scott Joplin
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Spirituals
Definition
Sacred and expressive work songs improvised by African-American slaves
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Suite
Definition
A multi-movement work for orchestra or keyboard, featuring contrasting picturesque movements or dances
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Carter Family
Definition
A famous traditional American folk group from Appalachian Virginia who became early Country and Western Stars
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Tin Pan Alley
Definition
The nickname for the area of New York City that became the center for sheet music publishing of popular songs
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Vaudeville
Definition
A type of American live variety show that emerged around 1900, featuring comedians, jugglers, acrobats, actors, animal trainers, magicians, dancers, singers, etc.
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Ziegfeld Follies
Definition
Annual high-class Vaudeville variety shows from 1907 to 1931 conceived and mounted as elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City
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Zydeco
Definition
A blending of Cajun, blues, and R&B styles, created by southern-Louisiana Creoles of French, Spanish, and African descent
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Ballet
Definition
A fully-staged theatrical work for dancers with orchestral accompaniment
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Bebop
Definition
A type of high-speed, improvised jazz played by a small group of virtuoso players
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Big Band
Definition
A large "Jazz orchestra" compromised of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, clarinets, and jazz rhythm section
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Bluegrass
Definition
A popular style of hillbilly music that features banjo, guitar, mandolin, string bass, harmonica, and lonesome sounding vocal harmonies
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Boogie-Woogie
Definition
An eight to the bar pounding dance rhythm that was very popular in the 1930's and 1940's
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Jump Blues
Definition
An early style of up-tempo R&B promoted by Louis Jordan in the 1940's
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Prepared Piano
Definition
A technique invented by John Cage that creates amazing sounds from a traditional grand piano by carefully inserting a variety of common household items between the strings
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Swing
Definition
A style of jazz that began in the 1930's and became the dominant popular style in the 1940's, with a lively rhythm suitable for dancing, as represented by Duke Ellington
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Symphony
Definition
A multi-movement work for orchestra
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Symphonic Poem
Definition
A 1 movement work for orchestra that is programmatic
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Western Swing
Definition
A style of Country & Western music that began around 1940 by adopting aspects of blues and jazz; first popularized by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
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American Bandstand
Definition
A nationally-syndicated teen dance show hosted by Dick Clark that started in the late 1950's
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Backbeat
Definition
A rhythm that accents off-beats 2 and 4 in 4/4 time; an important feature of R&B and Rock & Roll
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Chance Music
Definition
A concept promoted by John Cage in which some or all aspects of a composition are indeterminant
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Concept Album
Definition
An LP unified by a central idea or theme
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Cool Jazz
Definition
A smooth, serene style of jazz that began on the West Coast in the 1950's
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Doo-Wop
Definition
A pop oriented type of smooth vocal music derived from R&B, sung in tight harmonies by small groups with background singers making sounds on nonsense syllables
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Electric Blues
Definition
The musical style promoted by singer-guitarist B.B. King
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Electric Guitar
Definition
A 6 string fretted instrument that can be amplified through magnetic pickups; invented in 1950 by Les Paul and mass produced by Leo Fender
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Hard Bop
Definition
A more intense type of Bebop promoted by John Coltrane starting in the 1950's
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Honky Tonk Music
Definition
A style of 1950's Country & Western associated with barroom stories
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Independent Record Companies of the 1950's
Definition
Chess, Sun, and Atlantic were the most important
Term
Major Record Companies of the 1950's
Definition
RCA, Columbia, Decca, and Capitol
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Multi-Serialism
Definition
The process of controlling multiple aspects of a composition by a preordered numeric series of pitches
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Musique Concrete
Definition
The process of recording everyday sounds on to tape and then manipulating them into new sounds using electronic oscillators and filters
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Rhythm & Blues
Definition
A type of up-tempo blues promoted in the 1950's bu Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner, and Muddy Waters
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Rockabilly
Definition
A type of early rock & roll that combined swingin' country with elelments of R&B, as promoted by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Bill Haley
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Soul Music
Definition
An expressive kind of secular pop singing thayt came out of the African-American Gospel tradition; early artists in this style during the 1950's were Ray Charles and Sam Cooke
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Southern Gospel Music
Definition
A style of religious music sung by small unaccompanied white male ensembles.
Term
The Carter Family
Definition
Wildwood Flower
Term
Jimmie Rodgers
Definition
Blue Yodel No. 8--Muleskinner Blues
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Bessie Smith
Definition
Lost Your Head Blues
Term
Robert Johnson
Definition
Cross Road Blues
Term
Irving Berlin
Definition
God Bless America
Term
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
Definition
Ol' Man River
Term
George Gershwin
Definition
I've Got Rhythm
Term
Scott Joplin
Definition
The Entertainer
Term
Louis Armstrong
Definition
Hotter Than That
Term
John Phillip Sousa
Definition
The Stars and Stripes Forever
Term
George Gershwin
Definition
Rhapsody in Blue
Term
Edward MacDowell
Definition
Indian Suite
Term
Charles Ives
Definition
The Unanswered Question
Term
Henry Cowell
Definition
The Banshee
Term
Lead Belly
Definition
Midnight Special
Term
woody Guthrie
Definition
This Land is Your Land
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Pete Seeger
Definition
If I Had a Hammer
Term
Woody Guthrie
Definition
Union Maid
Term
Cole Porter
Definition
Night and Day
Term
Irving Berlin
Definition
White Christmas
Term
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Definition
Some Enchanted Evening
Term
Harold Arlen
Definition
Over the Rainbow
Term
Gene Autry
Definition
Back in the Saddle Again
Term
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Definition
New San Antonio Rose
Term
Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
Definition
Blue Grass Breakdown
Term
Louis Armstrong
Definition
Lazy River
Term
Duke Ellington
Definition
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Term
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie
Definition
Koko
Term
Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five
Definition
Caldpnia
Term
William Grant Still
Definition
Afro-American Symphony
Term
Samuel Barber
Definition
Adagio for Strings
Term
Aaron Copland
Definition
Appalachian Spring
Term
George Gershwin
Definition
Porgy and Bess
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Edgard Varese
Definition
Ionization
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John Cage
Definition
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Pinao
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Mahalia Jackson
Definition
Move On Up a Little Higher
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Frank Sinatra
Definition
Song for Young Lovers
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Cole Porter
Definition
I Get a Kick Out of You
Term
Leonard Bernstein
Definition
Tonight
Term
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Definition
The Sound of Music
Term
The Kingston Trio
Definition
Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
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Dave Brubeck Quartet
Definition
Take Five
Term
John Coltrane
Definition
Blue Train
Term
Hank Williams
Definition
Your Cheatin' Heart
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Hank Williams
Definition
Hey, Good Lookin'
Term
Johnny Cash
Definition
Folsom Prison Blues
Term
Big Joe Turner
Definition
Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Term
Muddy Waters
Definition
I Get My Mojo Workin
Term
Bill Haley and His Comets
Definition
Rock Around the Clock
Term
Little Richard
Definition
Tutti Frutti
Term
Elvis Presley
Definition
Hound Dog
Term
Chuck Berry
Definition
Roll Over Beethoven
Term
Jerry Lee Lewis
Definition
Great Balls of Fire
Term
Ray Charles
Definition
I Got a Woman
Term
Sam Cooke
Definition
You Send Me
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John Cage
Definition
4'33"
Term
Edgard Varese
Definition
Poeme Electronique
Term
Robert Johnson
Definition
Delta Blues
Term
Bessie Smith
Definition
Classic Blues
Term
The Soul Stirrers
Definition
Gospel Music
Term
Ray Charles
Definition
Soul Music
Term
Jimmie Rodgers
Definition
Country & Western
Term
Bob Wills
Definition
Country & Western
Term
Hank Williams
Definition
Country & Western
Term
Bill Monroe
Definition
Bluegrass
Term
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Definition
Broadway Musical
Term
Leonard Bernstein
Definition
Broadway Musical
Term
Bing Crosby
Definition
Tin Pan Alley
Term
Frank Sinatra
Definition
Tin Pan Alley
Term
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Definition
Dance Duo
Term
Woody Guthrie
Definition
Folk Music
Term
Pete Seeger
Definition
Folk Music
Term
Walt Disney
Definition
Animated Films
Term
Louis Armstrong
Definition
Jazz
Term
Duke Ellington
Definition
Jazz
Term
Charlie Parker
Definition
Jazz
Term
Dave Brubeck
Definition
Jazz
Term
Aaron Copland
Definition
Classical Music
Term
Charles Ives
Definition
Experimental Art Music
Term
Henry Cowelll
Definition
Experimental Art Music
Term
John Cage
Definition
Experimental Art Music
Term
Edgard Varese
Definition
Experimental Art Music
Term
Chuck Berry
Definition
Early Rock and Roll
Term
Elvis Presley
Definition
Early Rock and Roll
Term
What year was the AM Radio invented?
Definition
1900's
Term
What year was the Electric Microphone invented?
Definition
1920's
Term
What year was the 78-RPM Records invented?
Definition
1887
Term
What year was the Movies with Sounds invented?
Definition
1920's
Term
What year was the Stereo Recording/Playback invented?
Definition
1930's
Term
What year was the FM Radio invented?
Definition
1930's
Term
What year was the 33-RPM Stereo LP Records invented?
Definition
1940's
Term
What year was the 45-RPM Singles invented?
Definition
1940's
Term
What year was the Commercial TV invented?
Definition
1940's
Term
What year was the Reel-to-Reel Tape Recording invented?
Definition
1920's
Term
What year was the Electric Guitar invented?
Definition
1930's
Term
What year did the US enter WWI?
Definition
1917
Term
What year was prohibition?
Definition
1920
Term
What year was the 19th amendment made?
Definition
1920
Term
What year did great depression start?
Definition
1929
Term
What year did the US enter WWII?
Definition
1941
Term
What year did Brown vs Board of Education end?
Definition
1954
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