Music Flashcards
Broadway support organization that undertook projects to support troops during both world wars, sponsors the Tony Awards
American Theatre Wing
modern jazz style with complex melodies, rhythms, harmonies, and irregular phrasing
Bebop
magazine devoted to tracking trends in entertainment, especially music broadcasts and record sales
The Billboard
soundproof housing that encases a movie camera, so camera motor is not picked up by the microphone
Camera blimp
jazz arranging technique in which instructions of the same family are assigned similar music to play
Block voicing
music style that originated with African Americans as a way to lament problems and unhappiness
Blues
20th century theatrical term for overall storyline and dialogue of a Broadway show
Book
jazz (and blues) piano style, left hand plays a heavy, bouncy, repetitive pattern, right hand performs syncopated melodies
Boogie-woogie
radio station operating just outside of US borders, usually broadcasting with a very strong signal, AKA an X station
Border blaster
guitar technique, finger of left hand is inserted into the sawed-off neck of a glass bottle so the finger can glide up and down the strings smoothly
Bottleneck
collective nickname for NY theater district
Broadway
debut 1936, first of the popularity charts issued by The Billboard
Chart line
in jazz and musical theater, describes one complete statement of the main melody
Chorus
uses twelve-bar-blues structure, customarily features female singer in concert situations, pre-planned material with accompanist or small ensemble
Classic blues
small jazz or blues ensemble
Combo
uses twelve-bar-blues structure, customarily features male singer in informal situations, playing guitar, improvising text, using great rhythmic flexibility
Country blues
popular singing style, capitalized on sensitive microphones, singer vocalizes with warm, resonant tone and very clear diction (Bing Crosby)
Crooning
style of visual art, literature, and music of 20th century, expresses artist’s inner feelings about the subject through distortion and exaggeration
Expressionism
set of treaties and protocols that govern humane behavior during war
Geneva Conventions
award from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for exceptional scholarship or creative ability in the arts and sciences
Guggenheim Fellowship
in film scoring, the use of quiet, high-pitched strings to accentuate a moment in a scene
Halo of strings
unwritten plan for a jazz performance, discussed by the musicians and then played “from their heads”
Head arrangement
designation for a show whose songs are specifically suited for the situation in which they are sung or for the character who sings them
Integrated
film/tv music that parallels every gesture of the action, usually for comic effect
Mickey-mousing