Test 1 (Chapter FOUR) Terms Flashcards
LIghtweight magnetized strands of ribbon that make possible sound editing and multiple-track mixing; instrumentals or vocal s can be recoded at one location and later mixed onto a master recording in another studio
Audiotape
The recording of two separate channels or tracks of sound
Stereo
A recording that is made by capturing the fluctuations of the original sound waves and storing those signals on records or cassettes as a continuous stream of magnetism-analogous to the actual sound.
Analog recording
Music recorded and played back by laser beam rather than by needle or magnetic tape.
digital recording
Playback-only storage discs for music that incorporates pure and very precise digital techniques thus eliminating noise during recording and editing sessions.
compact discs
Short for MPEG-1 Layer 3, an advanced type of audio compression that reduces file size, enabling audio to be easily distributed over the INternet and to be digitally transmitted in real time.
MP3
Popular music that appeals either to a wide cross section of the public or to sizable subdivisions within the larger public based on age, region, or ethnic background; the word pop has also been used as a label to distinguish popular music from classical music.
Pop music
an improvisational and mostly instrumental musical form that absorbs and integrates a diverse body of musical styles including African rhythms, blues, big band and gospel.
Jazz
Songs recorded or performed by musicians who did not originally write or perform the music; in the 1950’s, some white producers and artists capitalized on popular songs by black artists by “covering” them.
Cover Music
Music that merges the African American influences of urban blues, gospel and R&B with with the white influences of country, folk and pop vocals.
Rock and Roll
Originally a a kind of black folk music, this music emerges as a distinct category in the early 1900s; it was influenced by African American spirituals, ballads and work songs in the rural South, and by urban guitar and vocal solos from the 1930s and 1940s
Blues
Music that merges urban blues with big band sounds.
Rhythm and blues
Music that mixes bluegrass and country influences with those of black folk music and early amplified blues.
rockabilly
Music that mixes gospel, blues, and urban and southern black styles with slower, more emotional, and melancholic lyrics.
soul
Music performed by untrained musicians and passed down through oral traditions; it encompasses a wide range of music from Appalachian fiddle tunes to the accordion-led zydeco of Louisiana
folk music
