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| The aspect of time in music |
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| How fast or slow the beat moves |
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| Beats organized into recurring patterns such as "4/4" |
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| The relative loudness or quietness of music |
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| The horizontal presentation of pitch |
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| The vertical presentation of pitch |
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| A block simultaneously-sounding musical picthes |
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| Harmony that is smooth sounding |
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| Harmony that is harsh sounding |
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| The sound created by type of instruments/voices used |
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| The inter-relationship of musical ideas being heard at one time |
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| A melody with no accompaniment |
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| A melody with simple chord accompaniment |
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| A complex interweaving of several melodies at once |
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| The large scale design of a musical composition |
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| A song that has several different verses of text |
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| Music styles that are native to the United States or that developed here out of foreign traditions to such a degree that something distinctly new emerged |
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| Various types of folk music |
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| Music conceived and performed as a commercial commodity for mainstream audiences |
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| Art-music intended for a concert hall or theatrical performance, or music that is highly experimental |
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| Rhythm, dynamics, melody, harmony, tone color, texture, and form |
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| A version of a song not done by the original artist |
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| A standard blues structural design that has a I-IV-V-I chord/harmony pattern |
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| a 12-state region of the eastern and southern US where much of America's folk music traditions come from |
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| Music that intentionally avoids a home key and dissonant |
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| A men's group that sings in tight-4-part harmony,typically dressed in straw "boater" hats and vertical red and white striped vests. |
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| Southern Louisiana music of French Acadian origin |
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| An early style of commercial blues that began in the 1920's as performed by small groups with a black female singer accompanied by a pianist |
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| Traditional songs of the old American West |
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| An early type of raw commercial blues that developed in the area from Memphis, TN to Vicksburg, MS, represented by the music of Robert Johnson |
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| A major breakthrough in 1925 that made it possible to capture more realistic sound to playback on electric phonographs and add sound to motion pictures |
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| The earliest version of the phonograph |
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| A staged music concert featuring country stars that has run in Nashville, TN every week since 1925 |
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| An early style of Dixieland Jazz made famous by trumpeter-singer, Louis Armstrong |
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| A mid to late 1800 type of American live variety show with comic skits, music, and dancing, usually done by white performers wearing blackface makeup |
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| A light, humorous staged theatrical play with songs and dancing |
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| A type of Appalachian folk music played on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bass, dulcimer, harmonica, jaw harp, accordion, jugs, washboards, and spoons |
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| A mechanized upright piano that could perform music by itself from a perforated piano roll recording |
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| A term put directly on record labels in the 1920's and 1930's by small, independent companies that marketed black roots music specifically to African-American listeners |
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| A style of lively, syncopate, early 1900's piano music made famous by Scott Joplin |
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| Sacred and expressive work songs improvised by African-American slaves |
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| A multi-movement work for orchestra or keyboard, featuring contrasting picturesque movements or dances |
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| A famous traditional American folk group from Appalachian Virginia who became early Country and Western Stars |
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| The nickname for the area of New York City that became the center for sheet music publishing of popular songs |
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| A type of American live variety show that emerged around 1900, featuring comedians, jugglers, acrobats, actors, animal trainers, magicians, dancers, singers, etc. |
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| Annual high-class Vaudeville variety shows from 1907 to 1931 conceived and mounted as elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City |
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| A blending of Cajun, blues, and R&B styles, created by southern-Louisiana Creoles of French, Spanish, and African descent |
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| A fully-staged theatrical work for dancers with orchestral accompaniment |
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| A type of high-speed, improvised jazz played by a small group of virtuoso players |
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| A large "Jazz orchestra" compromised of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, clarinets, and jazz rhythm section |
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| A popular style of hillbilly music that features banjo, guitar, mandolin, string bass, harmonica, and lonesome sounding vocal harmonies |
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| An eight to the bar pounding dance rhythm that was very popular in the 1930's and 1940's |
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| An early style of up-tempo R&B promoted by Louis Jordan in the 1940's |
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| A technique invented by John Cage that creates amazing sounds from a traditional grand piano by carefully inserting a variety of common household items between the strings |
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| A style of jazz that began in the 1930's and became the dominant popular style in the 1940's, with a lively rhythm suitable for dancing, as represented by Duke Ellington |
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| A multi-movement work for orchestra |
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| A 1 movement work for orchestra that is programmatic |
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| A style of Country & Western music that began around 1940 by adopting aspects of blues and jazz; first popularized by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys |
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| A nationally-syndicated teen dance show hosted by Dick Clark that started in the late 1950's |
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| A rhythm that accents off-beats 2 and 4 in 4/4 time; an important feature of R&B and Rock & Roll |
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| A concept promoted by John Cage in which some or all aspects of a composition are indeterminant |
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| An LP unified by a central idea or theme |
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| A smooth, serene style of jazz that began on the West Coast in the 1950's |
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| A pop oriented type of smooth vocal music derived from R&B, sung in tight harmonies by small groups with background singers making sounds on nonsense syllables |
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| The musical style promoted by singer-guitarist B.B. King |
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| A 6 string fretted instrument that can be amplified through magnetic pickups; invented in 1950 by Les Paul and mass produced by Leo Fender |
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| A more intense type of Bebop promoted by John Coltrane starting in the 1950's |
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| A style of 1950's Country & Western associated with barroom stories |
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| Independent Record Companies of the 1950's |
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| Chess, Sun, and Atlantic were the most important |
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| Major Record Companies of the 1950's |
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| RCA, Columbia, Decca, and Capitol |
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| The process of controlling multiple aspects of a composition by a preordered numeric series of pitches |
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| The process of recording everyday sounds on to tape and then manipulating them into new sounds using electronic oscillators and filters |
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| A type of up-tempo blues promoted in the 1950's bu Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner, and Muddy Waters |
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| A type of early rock & roll that combined swingin' country with elelments of R&B, as promoted by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Bill Haley |
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| An expressive kind of secular pop singing thayt came out of the African-American Gospel tradition; early artists in this style during the 1950's were Ray Charles and Sam Cooke |
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| A style of religious music sung by small unaccompanied white male ensembles. |
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| Blue Yodel No. 8--Muleskinner Blues |
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| The Stars and Stripes Forever |
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| It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing |
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| What year was the AM Radio invented? |
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