MUSC 351 Midterm Flashcards
The Satintones
“Motor City”
The Swinging Tigers
Snake Walk (Parts 1 & 2)
Barrett Strong
Money (That’s What I Want)
Eddie Holland
Jamie
The Marvelettes
Please Mr. Postman
The Miracles
Shop Around
The Miracles
You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
Mary Wells
My Guy
The Contours
Do You Love Me
Junior Walker and the All Stars
Shotgun
The Mynah Birds
It’s My Time
Martha and the Vandellas
Dancing in the Street
The Temptations
The Way You Do the Things You Do
Little Stevie Wonder
Fingertips (Part 2)
The Temptations
My Girl
The Supremes
Where did our love go
The Supremes
Stop! in the name of love
The Four Tops
I can’t help myself (sugar pie honey bunch)
The Four Tops
standing in the shadows of love
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Ain’t no mountain high enough
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
You’re all I need to get by
A&R
artist and repertoire; responsible for talent scouting and artistic development of the artists and songwriters
Who was A & R for Motown?
William “Mickey” Stevenson
Accent
stress or special emphasis on a beat
Amplification
artificial volume enhancement
Answer song
song that refers to or “answers” a previous song
Example of answer song
please mr postman to twisting postman
Apollo Theater
located in the harlem district of NYC; last stop for the motor town revue tour (theatre in chitlin circuit)
Backbeat
extra emphasis on the second and fourth beats in a quadruple meter
Beat
regular pulse which lasts through piece of music
Blues
secular predominantly black American folk music of the 20th century (oral rather than written)
Bridge
contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section
Call and response
singer makes musical statement which is answered by another soloist instrument or group
Chitlin’ circuit
music venues that were safe and acceptable for African American performers
Chord
simultaneous sounding of different notes to form a unified musical entity
Cover
when whites would re-record black artists songs to market to whites
Example of cover
Tutti Frutti by Little Richard was covered by Pat Boone
Crossover
song that originates in one segment of music market but achieves success in another segment
Doo-wop
close harmonies with nonsense syllables
Falsetto
singing technique that enables a single to produce notes higher than those in his or her voice range
Gospel
religious music of African-Americans that emerged in urban centers during the early decades of the 20th century
Harmony
combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chores and chord progressions
Jazz
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
Leslie speaker
made the doppler-effect by spinning horns in an organ
Melody
linear succession of notes that form a unified musical entity
Multi-tracking
several recorded sounds on the same segment of tape
Ostinato
musical phrase or pattern that repeats
Rhythm
temporal arrangement of sounds into various patterns of duration
Stop time
musical device in which the forward flow of the music stops or seems to stop
Strophic
musical form that features different text over the same or extremely similar musical material
Tempo
speed of musical work (bp)
Texture
way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition
Timbre
quality or “color” of a sound
Time signature
defines the meter of the music (number of beats in a measure and the type of note that fills one beat)
Tin Pan Alley
street in NYC home to a lot of music publishers
Verse-chorus
musical form based on several stanzas of different text sung to the same music
