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52 Cards in this Set
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A chord progression is?
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A repeating series of chords that form a song’s structural pattern
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The “doo-wop progression” consists of a:
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series of four chords
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The 12-bar blues form consists of:
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three groups of four
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Most common song form found in Tin Pan Alley song
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AABA
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Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day” is an example of:
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Contrasting-verse chorus
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A rhythm refers to
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the way musical sounds are organized in time
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A beat refers to
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a regular rhythmic pulse
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A songs meter is
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a way of organizing rhythm and beats
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The job of the bass players is to
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connect rhythmically with the drummer and provide harmony
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Which instrument rounds out harmony by playing full chords
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rhythm guitar
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It was considered unethical to play records on the radio until 1945. (T/F)
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True
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Who was the first musician to use “overdubbing”?
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Les Paul
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The role of the Tin Pan Alley publisher was to:
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pitch songs to artists who might consider performing them
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The Grand Ole Opry was an important radio show that played early rock ‘n’ roll (T/F)
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False
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According to the documentary, what were the four major record labels in the 1940s-1950s?
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RCA-Victor, Columbia, Capitol, Decca
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Jackie Bernston’s “Rocket 88” uses what form?
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Simple Verse
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Who name “rock n’ roll” and “R&B”, respectively?
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Alan Freed and Jerry Wexler
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What ethically questionable tactic(s) did independent labels use to get their songs played on radio stations?
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Payola
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Which influential DJ lost his job and credibility due to the payola scandal?
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Alan Freed
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Elvis is often thought of as a song stylist because he:
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Recorded Numerous Version of the same songs
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Bono says that Elvis brought together white and black forms of music in the way he sang (T/F)
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False
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The “scope of Elvis’s significance” was much smaller than Chuck Berry and Little Richard (T/F)
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True
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What was characteristic of Phil Spector “Wall of Sounds” production?
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Using small rooms with a lot of musicians and instrumental bleed
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Spector’s recordings were made on which type of recorder?
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Three track recorder
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The Gas Light was an important New York coffee house to the folk revival (T/F)
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True
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The folk revival was initiated by the Kingston Trio in 1958 (T/F)
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True
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Two sides of the folk revival developed, one that was interested in tradition and one that catered to the pop market (T/F)
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True
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American blues influence can be seen in British bands by their extensive use of slide guitar and harmonica (T/F)
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True
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American blues influence can be seen in British bands by their extensive use of song forms such as simple verse, simple verse chorus, contrasting verse chorus and 12 bar blues (T/F)
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True
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British blues covers were sanitized for the mainstream market (T/F)
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False
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“Rave ups” were:
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Improvisatory passages performed by the Yardbirds
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According to the text, to what does the “British Invasion” refer?
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British groups who played guitar, and, initially, wore long hair
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Chad Allan and the Expressions changed their name to
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The Guess Who
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In the mid 1960s Canadian bands sought authenticity by adopting
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British sounds and national identifiers
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In the 1960s the Canadian music industry was
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Pretty much non-existent
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On which Bob Dylan album did half of the songs use electric instruments?
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Bringing It All Back Home
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What do Covach and Flory say are the two psychedelic approaches to music:
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Music enhances a drug trip and music is the trip
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The lyrics for “Tomorrow Never Knows” are taken from
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Timothy Leary’s The Psychedelic Experience
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Timothy Leary based his book The Psychedelic Experience on which text?
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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Soul singing is much more expressive than gospel singing (T/F)
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False
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Soul singing uses melismas or several notes per syllable (T/F)
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False
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Which record label was run by Ahmet Ertegun?
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Atlantic Records
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Duane Allman began his musical career as a session guitarist at Stax. (T/F)
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False
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Richard Hell was in which CBGB era band?
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The Heartbreakers
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Johnny Rotten said that he was discovered while wearing the most insulting t shirt. What did it say?
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I hate Pink Floyd
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What was Bangs waiting for Elvis to do for two decades?
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Get wild again
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According to Bangs, if the 1960s music was about narcissism the 1970s music was about
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solipsism
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British punk bands revel in nostalgia (T/F)
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False
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The Clash are the personification of the emerging British punk scene (T/F)
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False
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CBGB OMFUG stands for
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Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers
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Members of The Clash were viewed as:
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Political protestors
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Which band did Covach and Flory call “dark, not flower power”?
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The Velvet Underground
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