Unit 7 Flashcards
1
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- A song form used in folk music
- tells a story that contains a lesson
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Ballad
2
Q
- a style of small group jazz
- fast moving harmonies
- angular Melodies
- complex rhythms
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Bebop
3
Q
- large jazz ensemble (15-20 members)
- popular in 1930s-1940s
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Big Band
4
Q
- a variation of country music
- fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass guitar, 5 string banjo
- Appalachian region
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Bluegrass
5
Q
- style of music in 20th century
- began to form for African American work songs, field hollers, and spirituals
- Today: loosely refers to feeling sad, to any song in this style/form
- 12 bar strophic form
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Blues
6
Q
- style of music theater
- integrated a cohesive plot with songs and dances that advance the plot
- specifically refers to the street in New York
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Broadway Musical
7
Q
- folk song designed to teach a simple lesson
- simple and easy to sing
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Children’s Songs
8
Q
- a mixture of rock rhythm sections and a singer with country accent
- topic: traditional country
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Contemporary Country
9
Q
- jazz, gospel, and funk that uses electronic instruments, drums, horns, and vocal
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Contemporary R&B
10
Q
- describes a broad variety of musical styles including Bluegrass, Hillbilly, and contemporary country
- most that fall in this category: originated in the American south
- features a singing style with a distinctly rural southern accent, instrumentation (favoring strings)
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Country
11
Q
- music written for dancing
- instrumentation of various type of folk dance music
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Dance Music
12
Q
- early form of jazz
- developed in New Orleans
- syncopated rhythms
- improvised solos/harmony
- trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, tuba, banjo, guitar, piano, drums
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Dixieland
13
Q
- term used to describe wide variety of musical forms that developed within different cultures
- passed down
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Folk Music
14
Q
- early form of country
- alternative jazz and dance of 1920s
- wholesome music of the “good ol days”
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Hillbilly Music
15
Q
- country combo style that became popular in the 1940s-1950s
- originally performed in saloons known as “honkytonks”
- topics: infidelity and drinking
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Honky Tonk Music
16
Q
- the act of creating Melodies and harmonies on the spot without reading music
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Improvisation
17
Q
- An American form of theater developed in the nineteenth century
- featuring white people in blackface
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Minstrel Show
18
Q
- type of dramatic performance that tells a story through dialogue
- singing and dancing added for support
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Musical Theatre
19
Q
- developed in 19th century
- required classically trained singers
- featured less complex music
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Operetta
20
Q
- folk song written to directly or suggest talk about injustice
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Protest Song
21
Q
- musical genre developed near the turn of the 20th century
- syncopated rhythms
- nationally popular
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Ragtime
22
Q
- form of spoken word delivered over a beat
- can be improvised
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Rap
23
Q
- term originally referring to music recorded by black musicians and intended for the AA community
- evolved or encompass many styles like soul and funk
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Rhythm and Blues
24
Q
- style that grew from R&B and came into prominence during the 1950s
- the style features a strong backbeat and electric guitar, bass, drums
- got shortened and now has many sub genres
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Rock n Roll
25
Q
- technique in which a clip of a preexisting song is isolated and looped
- often as a background for a rapper
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Sampling
26
Q
- the technique of improvising a rhythmic solo on the one turntable over a beat
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Scratching
27
Q
- a term used to describe the rhythmic bounce in jazz
- also refers to the big band music
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Swing
28
Q
- The act of disrupting the normal pattern of accents in a piece of music by emphasizing what would normally be weak beats
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Syncopation
29
Q
- Style of country music developed in western cities
- borrowed instruments from the dance band
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Western Swing
30
Q
- A type of folk song devised to help groups of people perform physical work.
- music usually uses tempo of the work
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Work Songs
31
Q
Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller
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Big Band Leaders
32
Q
In the 1940s , it was difficult for band leaders to find good musicians. Why?
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The war
33
Q
Colonial times music was
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Illegal
34
Q
What is one of the first important rap recordings
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Rappers Delight
