Chapter 7-Recordings & the Music Industry

Question 1

Copyright

Answer 1

A legal right that grants to the owner of a work protection against unauthorized copying.

Question 2

Format Wars

Answer 2

Rivalries in which companies selling specific types of recording and playback devices try to put competing companies with competing formats out of business.

Question 3

Phonograph

Answer 3

Thomas Edison’s name for his first recording device.

Question 4

Analog Recording

Answer 4

A recording technique in which representation of the sound wave is stored directly onto the recording medium.

Question 5

Digital Recording

Answer 5

A recording technique in which sound is broken down electronically into a numerical code.

Question 6

Nickelodeons

Answer 6

Early jukeboxes set up in amusement arcades.

Question 7

Gramophone

Answer 7

Early playback device using a flat disc with lateral grooves cut on one side.

Question 8

Tin Pan Alley

Answer 8

District in New York City where songs were written “on order” for Broadway shows.

Question 9

Ragtime

Answer 9

Instrumental music with a steady, syncopated beat.

Question 10

Victrola

Answer 10

Early hand-cranked record player introduced by the Victor Company.

Question 11

Jukebox

Answer 11

A coin-operated phonograph.

Question 12

Woofers

Answer 12

Large speakers that reproduce low sounds.

Question 13

Tweeters

Answer 13

Small speakers that reproduce high sounds.

Question 14

Track

Answer 14

A single recorded sound source, used in multitrack recording.

Question 15

Stereophonic Sound

Answer 15

Recording technique in which tracks are placed individually in the right or left speaker.

Question 16

High-Fidelity (hi-fi) Sound

Answer 16

Recorded sound true to the original.

Question 17

Rap

Answer 17

Music composed of rhymed speech over drumbeats.

Question 18

Hip-Hop

Answer 18

The backing music for rap; also refers to the culture of rap.

Question 19

Compact Discs (CD’s)

Answer 19

Plastic discs with digitally encoded music read by lasers.

Question 20

MP3

Answer 20

The name for compressed digital audio files that enable music to be downloaded from the internet.

Question 21

Independent Label

Answer 21

Any recording industry company not owned by one of the major labels.

Question 22

Artist and Repertoire (A&R) Executives

Answer 22

Specialists in the music industry who discover and develop the groups and performers.

Question 23

Demos

Answer 23

Demonstration recordings sent in to record companies by artists’ agents, managers, or by the artists themselves.

Question 24

Producer

Answer 24

In the music industry, the person who oversees the making of a master recording.

Question 25

Arranger

Answer 25

A professional who adapts a song for specific singers and other musical elements.

Question 26

Lyricist

Answer 26

A professional who specializes in writing the words of a song.

Question 27

Reporting Stations

Answer 27

The radio stations whose playlists are tracked weekly to determine airplay popularity for individual songs.

Question 28

Soundscan

Answer 28

A point-of-scale computer system that determines sales for best-selling records lists.

Question 29

Soundscan

Answer 29

A point-of-scale computer system that determines sales for best-selling records lists.