Rock Music Test 1

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melody

Back 1

horizontal aspect of music, most recongnizable part of a song

Front 2

rhythm

Back 2

music moving in time

Front 3

harmony

Back 3

creates depth and supports the melody

Front 4

texture

Back 4

musical fabric density of the music

Front 5

dissonance

Back 5

tension in the harmony

Front 6

consonance

Back 6

resolution in the harmony which controls the direction of the music

Front 7

beat

Back 7

also known as the "pulse"

Front 8

meter

Back 8

how music is measured

Front 9

syncopation

Back 9

a normally unaccented beat is accented

Front 10

form

Back 10

the way the song is put together

Front 11

bottle neck

Back 11

a glass or metal tube that fits over a guitarists ring finger or little finger and stops the strings of the guitar when it is slid up or down the instruments fingerboard.

Front 12

blue notes

Back 12

notes that are lowered a half step or less. early blues musicians lowered the third and seventh scale degrees, and bebop musicians lowered the fifth degree as well.

Front 13

blues harp

Back 13

a harmonica used to play blues.

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griots

Back 14

oral poets in africa who memorized and sang the story of their peoples history.

Front 15

gospel blues

Back 15

a style of blues which is very energetic and syncopated.

Front 16

doo wop blues

Back 16

a style of blues that is a secular version of gospel; very entergetic and syncopated.

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country blues

Back 17

a very commercial style of blues.

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Robert Johnson

Back 18

the most influential country blues singer/guitarists who recorded in the thrities

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BB King

Back 19

an important delta blues artist who influenced many rock guitarists such as eric clapton and jimi hendrix

Front 20

classic blues

Back 20

a blues style of the twenties and thirties, in which female singers, such as Bessie Smith, were featured as sololists with blues bands. this type of blues was usually in strict twelve bar form.

Front 21

melisma

Back 21

an expressive and elaborate melodic improvisation sung on a single syllable; many notes per syllable of text.

Front 22

scott joplin

Back 22

one of the best known ragtime artists who sold over a million copies of his composition "Maple Leaf Rag".

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steven foster

Back 23

Known as the "father of american music" who wrote songs such as "oh susanna" and "old folks at home" which reflect the sentiment of pre civil war america

Front 24

Radioheads "Life in a Glass House"

Back 24

A recently adapted song by one of todays popular alternative rock bands that uses syncopated rhythms to resemble the genre of early Ragtime.

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Original composer of "Sh-boom"

Back 25

The Chords (1954)

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the composer of the cover song "Sh-boom"

Back 26

The Crew-Cuts (1954)

Front 27

original composer of "crying in the chapel"

Back 27

The Orioles (1953)

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the singer of the cover song "crying in the chapel"

Back 28

Darrell Glenn

Front 29

doo wop progression

Back 29

the chord progression of a tonic chord, a submedian seventh chord, a supertonic seventh chord, and a dominant seventh chord, commonly used as the basis of fifties doo wop songs.

Front 30

call and responce

Back 30

most comonly used in Gospel music, the practice of singing in which a solo vocalist is answered by a group of singers. this practice is also used with instruments.

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Woody Guthrie

Back 31

a early 20th century folk singer who had the most influence on Bob Dylan. his most famous piece is "this land is your land"

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the almanack singers; pete seeger, woodie guthrie, lee hays, and millard lampell

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a folk group formed by Pete Seeger in New York in 1941 that sang out for the development of strong labor unions, civil rights, and the need to end the war.

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vibrato

Back 33

the repeated raising and lowering of a pitch that produces an undulation(wave like) in the tone