chapter 8-11 Flashcards
break
A brief instrumental interlude that occurs in an ensemble piece. It is often an improvised solo passage in a work for a group of instruments.
bending notes
A technique used with stringed instruments (especially the guitar) in which the sound of a note is made higher or lower by pulling on the string as a note is sounding.
bottleneck slide
allows a skillful performer to recreate the sliding and wailing more characteristic of the human voice.
boogie woogie
It is distinguished by a driving ostinato in the left hand while the right hand plays higher-sounding ornamental figures.
classic blues
This refers to blues as recorded between the 1920s and 1930s. It was a period dominated by female blues singers, including Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and Bessie Smith.
race record
A trade and marketing term that was used for several decades after the 1920s (when it first appeared) to designate recordings by black musicians made for black consumers.
urban blues
A brand of hard-driving blues with a strong beat, backed by electric guitar, bass, drums, and sometimes electric organ and/or piano,
backbeat
A strong accent on a beat that is normally in a weaker position
rockabilly
A commercial fusion of country and rock and roll (or rhythm and blues) performed by white musicians in the 1950s and 1960s
glam rock
rock music tradition dating from the 1970s that emphasized elaborate stage presence and costuming, sometimes at the expense of the actual music making.
woodstock
The festival has come to represent the climax of 1960s counterculture and is notable for its memorable performances of psychedelic rock
American bandstand
An influential youth-oriented rock and roll dance show that ran daily on ABC television
concept album
A rock album conceived as an integrated whole under the umbrella of an overarching theme or idea.
fuging tune
type of music found in colonial American songbooks that had a section in which successive entrances of a melody give the impression of one tune chasing or fleeing after another.
lining out
A communal singing practice in which a lead singer (or group of singers) either sings or declaims lyrics in advance in order to let a larger body of unrehearsed participants know what will be sung next.
