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54 Cards in this Set
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Ragtime |
Ragged or syncopated rthyms |
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Tin pan alley |
Early area of new York where publishers Often use Cheap tinny sounding pianos |
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chord |
3 or more notes Played together |
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arrangement |
preplanned music involving written-out parts for instrumentalist in a band |
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Copyright |
exclusive right to control the use of an artistic work |
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Crooning |
soft vocal style , slide from a note to another effect of warmth |
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front line |
group of lead melodic instruments in New Orleans JAZZ |
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Overdubbing |
Technique of adding more tracks of sound |
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swing |
big band JAZZ Style of dance music |
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Walking Bass |
line played by a bass player that ''walks" between chord notes |
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Irving berlin |
Jewish- American song Written of early 20 th century |
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Scott Joplin |
African piano player And composed ragtime |
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Alan Freed |
maverick Cleveland disk Jockie radio host |
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delta Blues |
Country Blues from Mississippi delta region |
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Chicago Blues |
Blues that Combined Country and Urban blues |
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classic Blues |
Blues Style of the 20's and 30'swith girls with solo blues bands |
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Country Blues |
earliest Blues With solo singer and guitar |
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Urban Blues |
developed in Big cities and more sophisticated Sound |
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Blues notes |
lowest Scale pitch that gives the melody a relaxed effect |
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Blues harp |
harmonica used to play Blues |
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Doggie Woogie |
rhythmic piano style that Uses repeating bass Patterns |
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Bottle necks |
gives the melody a relaxed effect |
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Can-and - response |
the practice of singing where a solo voice is answered by a group of singers |
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work songs |
songs Sung while working |
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feild holler |
solo singing by Africans working in the feilds |
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Griots |
Oral poets in Africa who memorize in sing the story of there people's history |
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polyrhythm |
more than One rhythm pattern being played At the Same time |
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rhythm and blues |
Called race music and Originally an African American pop music style |
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Riffs |
Short melodic or rhythmic patterns repeated over and over again |
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Signifying |
Txt or song lyrics that have more than one meaning or message |
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String bending |
Guitar technique where the player pushes or pulls the string temporarily out of alignment causing the pitch to be raised |
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Twelve bar blues |
Classic blues form that follows a particular chord progression |
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Robert johnson |
An influential country blues singer and guitarist of the 1930s |
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B B king |
delta blues guitarist whose lyrical and expressive solo style influenced many rock guitarist |
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Bessie smith |
female popular Blues singer "Empress of Blues " |
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Muddy waters |
He used a Whining sound of a bottle neck guitar |
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BO diddly |
Played his guitar and it sounded like drums |
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falsetto |
high Male Vocal range |
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Spirituals |
gospel music |
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western swing |
Country music from String bands |
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Johnny Cash |
Country and rock singer |
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the chords |
doo wap era |
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Jimmy Rodgers |
father of Country music |
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Doo-wop |
sing nonsense Syllabls |
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Crying in the chapel |
first Cross over songs |
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Mahalia Jackson |
Queen of gospel |
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rockabilly |
honey-Tong country and Blues Combined |
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Slapping bass |
Slapping strings |
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fats Domino |
popular singer and pianoist of rhythm and blues |
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Buddy Holly |
innovator of rock music |
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Elvis |
rock and roll singer who introduced rock to teens |
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Joe Turner |
Jump blues singer who made honking Sounds Of a saxophone |
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Sam Phillps |
Son record company and discovered elvis |
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Jerry lee lewis |
Career ruined when he Married his 13 year old Cousin without divorcing his wife |
