Download History of Rock and Roll - Exam and more Exams History of Music in PDF only on Docsity! History of Rock and Roll - Exam 1 Oklahoma State QUESTIONS & SOLUTIONS(GRADED A) accent - ANSWER Emphasis placed on a musical sound Syncopation - ANSWER When an accent takes place in a rhythm unexpectedly bar or measure - ANSWER Vertical bar in sheet music that separates beats Rock Beat - ANSWER Subdivision into 8 beats... What is this type of beat? melody - ANSWER coherent succession of pitches, played or sung in a certain rhythm, is called: Step wise - ANSWER One to the next melody is called leap - ANSWER low to high melody is called a: Sequence - ANSWER Melody pattern that shifts Phrase - ANSWER Unit of a melody Motive - ANSWER Smallest and most recognizable fragment in music theme - ANSWER Melody that is more prominate Harmoney - ANSWER Pitches that happen at the same time Counterpoint - ANSWER a note against another note Consonance - ANSWER Pleasing Harmony Meter - ANSWER Organization of stressed and unstressed beats Groove - ANSWER Patterns of beats harmonic roots - ANSWER A bass line is also called Harmonic filler - ANSWER music that takes place between the bass and the treble parts Musicians in a band - ANSWER Whats the rhythm section? Hook - ANSWER Motive that is catchy, but can sing back Echo - ANSWER what is the reverb in recording Exact repetition - ANSWER what is the delay in recording 2 speakers, not same in either speaker - ANSWER What is stereo in recording riff - ANSWER Recognizable not of an instrument, but cannot sing back. (A, A') - ANSWER This is variation form nonpitch - ANSWER precaution instruments interval - ANSWER Distance from one pitch to another Delta Blues - ANSWER Rural music, delta region Urban/electric blues - ANSWER Chicago and Memphis migration music of African Americans, mostly female singers Bessie Smith - ANSWER St. Louis Blues Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - ANSWER Caldonia Jump Blues - ANSWER Faster tempo, swing, rhythm section and saxophones comical lyrics Tampa Red and Georgia Tom - ANSWER It's Tight Like That Hokum blues - ANSWER Piano and guitar with sexual lyrics Pinetop Smith - ANSWER Pine Top's Boogie Woogie boogie woogie - ANSWER Piano style, repeated riff, big beat w right hand, shuffle w left jazz - ANSWER big band swing latin music - ANSWER clave music portraying Latin America in positive way black gospel - ANSWER harmony singing in a church Sun records - ANSWER Recording studio in Memphis Chicago John lee hooker bo Diddley howling wolf muddy waters - ANSWER Chess Records Muddy Waters - ANSWER I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man Cincinnati - ANSWER King Records New York - ANSWER Atlantic Records Big Joe Turner Atlantic Records - ANSWER Shake, Rattle, and Roll The Carter Family - ANSWER Wildwood Flower Jimmie Rodgers - ANSWER Waiting for a Train payola - ANSWER Paying DJs to play music Fats Domino - ANSWER Blueberry Hill Johnny B. Goode - ANSWER Chuck Berry Tutti Frutti - ANSWER Little Richard That's All Right Mama - ANSWER Elvis music that mixes bluegrass and country influences with those of black folk music and early amplified blues - ANSWER Rockabilly Great Balls of Fire - ANSWER Jerry Lee Lewis Rhythm - ANSWER Music in time, Repeats in a pattern Timbre - ANSWER Sound Quality Bridge - ANSWER Serves as contrast in song structure Chorus - ANSWER Focal point in song structure, text and music repeats Verse (A) - ANSWER Corresponds to poetic stanza Polyphony - ANSWER More than 1 melody at the same time heterophony - ANSWER 1 melody, different performances of it at the same time monophony - ANSWER Single melody Texture - ANSWER Layers of sound and their relationship Modulation - ANSWER Moving from different keys Sad - ANSWER Minor Tonic
