History of Rock and Roll Exam 1, Exams of History of Music

Download History of Rock and Roll Exam 1 and more Exams History of Music in PDF only on Docsity! History of Rock and Roll Exam 1 ACCURATE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED 100% Rhythm Section - ANSWER One chord instrument, one bass instrument and one percussive instrument to provide steady rhythm and harmonic support. Horns - ANSWER Wind instrument. Provides harmonic support. Adds volume and power to the texture of the song. Strings - ANSWER Violins, cellos, violas. Provides harmonic support. Adds sustain and smoothness to the texture of the song. Backbeat, rolling rhythm - ANSWER Placing a strong accent on offbeats. Swing - ANSWER Dominant form of American popular music in 1935-1945. Playing that has a strong rhythmic groove or drive. Melismatic - ANSWER Several notes sung to one syllable. Rockabilly - ANSWER A blend of country and western and rhythm and blues that pointed the way to classic rock and roll. Riff - ANSWER Short, and memorable melodic ideas brought back several times in a song. Lick - ANSWER Consists of a short series of notes that is used in solos, accompaniment, and melodic lines. Fill - ANSWER A short musical sound that helps sustain the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody. Chord Progression - ANSWER A series of chords played in order. Doo-wop chord progression (G,e,c,d) Form - ANSWER Organization of music in time. Popular Music - ANSWER Music appealing to popular taste including rock, pop, soul, country, etc. Les Paul and Mary Ford pop singers in 1950s. Country and Western - ANSWER Folk and hillbilly music preserved in rural and southern areas in the U.S. Uses the fiddle and accentuation of the voice. Rhythm and Blues - ANSWER Umbrella term for popular music in the black community. Country blues, jump blues, classic blues. Tin Pan Alley - ANSWER Popular music pre rock and roll. Its most common form is AABA. Blueberry Hill, Hey Good Lookin' Song Stylist - ANSWER Elvis Presley is a song stylist, he took other people's song and interpreted it. Songwriter - ANSWER Leiber and Stoller is a songwriter. They got Big Mama Thornton to sing their song Hound Dog. Big Bands, Swing Era - ANSWER 1935-1946. Big band jazz became the dominant form of pop music. Swing brought the recording industry back into life after it was almost killed by the Great Depression. Singing Cowboys - ANSWER A typical singing cowboy wore a white hat, clean-shaven, with a typical habit of showing their emotions in a song. Gene Autry. Appeared in movies to make the song more appealing. Nashville - ANSWER Central location for Publishers Studios. Home of Grand Ole Opry. Boogie Woogie Bass - ANSWER Instrument common in Jump Blues to create upbeat party music. Major Labels; Independent Labels. - ANSWER Sony & Warner Brothers are major labels that have the ability to incorporate the successes of smaller labels like Sun's and Chess Records to make millions. Gene Autry, Roy Rogers - ANSWER American performers who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television. One of the most important figures in the history and development of country music. Leonard Chess - ANSWER Founder of Chess Records. Influential in the development of electric blues. Muddy Waters - ANSWER Considered the father of Modern Chicago blues. Muddy's influence is tremendous not just on blues and rhythm and blues but on rock and roll, jazz, country. His use of amplification serves as a link between delta blues and rock and roll. Louis Jordan - ANSWER Pioneering American musician, songwriter, bandleader. Highly popular with black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. One of the first black recording artists to achieve a crossover in popularity into the predominately white mainstream audience. Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler - ANSWER Regarded as one of the major record industry players. Ertegun founded Atlantic Records, and Wexler coined the term rhythm and blues. Alan Freed - ANSWER Also known as Moondog, was an American disc jockey. He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country, rhythm and blues music on the radio he called rock and roll. Bill Haley and His Comets - ANSWER Considered the first to release rock and roll. Rendered Shake, Rattle, and Roll to soften the lyrics in Big Joe Turner's version for the predominately white mainstream audience. Pat Boone - ANSWER Pop artist and song stylist. Covers the hits from black rhythm and blues artists like Fats Domino and Little Richard. Appealed to an older audience, and took aspects of rock and roll out of context to make it a hit. Sam Philips - ANSWER Founder of Sun Records, and played an important role in the emergence and development of rock and roll and rockabilly as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. Through sun, discovered recording talent. Johnny Cash - ANSWER Successful crossover country artist. His genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. I Walk The Line was number 17 on U.S pop charts. Carl Perkins - ANSWER Part of the first generation of rock and rollers. His sound personifies the rockabilly sound. Blue Suede Shoes hit all three charts and shows his crossover from the country side. Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller - ANSWER Songwriting and record producing partners. Stoller was the composer and Leiber the lyricist. Successes include being the writer of such crossover hit songs such as Hound Dog, and hit songs for Elvis. Wrote and co wrote over 70 chart hits.