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MUSC 351 Midterm Flashcards

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The Satintones

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“Motor City”

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The Swinging Tigers

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Snake Walk (Parts 1 & 2)

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Barrett Strong

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Money (That’s What I Want)

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Eddie Holland

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Jamie

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The Marvelettes

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Please Mr. Postman

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The Miracles

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Shop Around

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The Miracles

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You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me

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Mary Wells

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My Guy

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The Contours

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Do You Love Me

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Junior Walker and the All Stars

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Shotgun

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The Mynah Birds

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It’s My Time

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Martha and the Vandellas

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Dancing in the Street

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The Temptations

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The Way You Do the Things You Do

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14
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Little Stevie Wonder

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Fingertips (Part 2)

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The Temptations

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My Girl

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The Supremes

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Where did our love go

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The Supremes

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Stop! in the name of love

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The Four Tops

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I can’t help myself (sugar pie honey bunch)

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The Four Tops

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standing in the shadows of love

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Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

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Ain’t no mountain high enough

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Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

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You’re all I need to get by

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A&R

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artist and repertoire; responsible for talent scouting and artistic development of the artists and songwriters

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Who was A & R for Motown?

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William “Mickey” Stevenson

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Accent

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stress or special emphasis on a beat

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Amplification

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artificial volume enhancement

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Answer song

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song that refers to or “answers” a previous song

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Example of answer song

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please mr postman to twisting postman

28
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Apollo Theater

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located in the harlem district of NYC; last stop for the motor town revue tour (theatre in chitlin circuit)

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Backbeat

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extra emphasis on the second and fourth beats in a quadruple meter

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Beat

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regular pulse which lasts through piece of music

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Blues

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secular predominantly black American folk music of the 20th century (oral rather than written)

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Bridge

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contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section

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Call and response

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singer makes musical statement which is answered by another soloist instrument or group

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Chitlin’ circuit

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music venues that were safe and acceptable for African American performers

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Chord

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simultaneous sounding of different notes to form a unified musical entity

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Cover

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when whites would re-record black artists songs to market to whites

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Example of cover

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Tutti Frutti by Little Richard was covered by Pat Boone

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Crossover

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song that originates in one segment of music market but achieves success in another segment

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Doo-wop

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close harmonies with nonsense syllables

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Falsetto

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singing technique that enables a single to produce notes higher than those in his or her voice range

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Gospel

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religious music of African-Americans that emerged in urban centers during the early decades of the 20th century

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Harmony

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combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chores and chord progressions

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Jazz

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musical tradition that developed in the 20th century in African-American communities mixing african and european musical traditions. characterized by syncopation, melodic and harmonic elements derived from the blues

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Leslie speaker

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made the doppler-effect by spinning horns in an organ

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Melody

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linear succession of notes that form a unified musical entity

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Multi-tracking

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several recorded sounds on the same segment of tape

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Ostinato

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musical phrase or pattern that repeats

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Rhythm

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temporal arrangement of sounds into various patterns of duration

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Stop time

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musical device in which the forward flow of the music stops or seems to stop

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Strophic

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musical form that features different text over the same or extremely similar musical material

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Tempo

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speed of musical work (bp)

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Texture

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way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition

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Timbre

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quality or “color” of a sound

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Time signature

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defines the meter of the music (number of beats in a measure and the type of note that fills one beat)

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Tin Pan Alley

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street in NYC home to a lot of music publishers

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Verse-chorus

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musical form based on several stanzas of different text sung to the same music

Spring 2015 (9 decks)

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