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28 Cards in this Set
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What year was the electric guitar invented? |
1930 |
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When did the first blues and country recordings take place? |
1920's |
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What instruments are used in hillbilly music? |
guitar, banjo, fiddle, madolin, bass |
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What timbre of the voice usually accompanies hillbilly music? |
high, pinched, nasal timbre, sometimes a more relaxed baritone |
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What is the typical subject matter of hillbilly music? |
home, family, religion, work, rural life, farming |
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Where, when. and by whom was the first successful country music record made? |
1923, Atlanta, Georgia, Fiddlin', John Carson |
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Who discovered the Carter family? Where and when? |
Ralph Peer, Bristol, Tennessee, 1927 |
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What are some musical characteristics of "Blue Yodel No 2"? |
12 bar blues, use of yodel, ooccasional blue notes |
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What are some musical characteristics of "Waiting for a train"? |
Strophic form, instruments include:steel guitar, coronet, clarinet, string bass, guitar |
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When was the first appearance of blues records being released by the industry? |
1920 |
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What are some musical characteristics of blues music? |
manipulates melodic line, frequent changes in rhythm and timbre, pitch bending and blues notes over repeated bass patterns and accompaniment |
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What are four different factors that can influence timbre? |
The construction of an instrument, the materials of an instrument, the context which is it heard, its ability to sustain a note |
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What form is classic blues usually written in? |
12 bar blues |
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How is classic blues different than rural blues? |
Seldom improvised, usually in 12 bar blues form, accompanied by full band, features female singers, based in vaudeville/urban areas, |
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Describe the musical characteristics of downhome blues |
basic melody & accompaniment, flexible form (not structured), rubato, raw timbre, accompanied by acoustic guitar only, very emotionally expressive, use of codes and humor to express despair |
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Define "aural transmission" |
learned from hearing |
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Define "written transmission" |
Learned from the use of notation and theoretical texts |
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Who did Robert Johnson record for and when? |
Vocalion in San Antonia, Texas (1936) Vocalion in Dallas, Texas (1937) |
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Define "beat" |
the short, regular element of time that underlies rhythm |
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Define "rhythm" |
the temporal relationships within music |
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Define "meter" |
a repeating pattern of strong and weak beats |
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define "bar/measure" |
a group of beats |
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What does a duple meter consist of? |
a basic two beat strong/weak relationship |
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What does a triple meter consist of? |
a three beat pattern where the first beat is emphasized (patti page - Tennessee waltz) |
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What does a compound meter consist of? |
glued together groups of beats (seal) |
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What does an irregular beat consist of? |
asymmetrical groupings with different numbers of beats per measure |
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What is the job of an "arranger"? |
To choose the key, tempo, instrumental accompaniment matched to the singer's vocal strengths |
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Who first applied the term "race records"? |
Ralph Peer |
