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tonic
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first
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Hickuping effect
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Elvis
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staccato
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short detached melody
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Hill Billy
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Singing Cowboy
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Bad Boy Beatles
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Rolling stones
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King of Swing
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Benny Goodman
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Famous R&R DJ
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Alan Freed
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Wall of sound
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Phil Spector
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Traditional vocal blues form
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AAB
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King of Jazz
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Paul Whiteman
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Gant & Brown
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Blues Crooners
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phrase
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shorter parts within a melody
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resolution
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when dissonance moves to consonance
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Amazing Jazz Pianist
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Nat King Cole
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Father of the blues
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W.C. Handy
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First Blackface Entertainer
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George Washington Dixon
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Who wrote "White Christmas"
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Irving Berlin
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rhythm
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the particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music
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dissonance
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a tone combination that is unstable
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form
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the organization of musical elements in time
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instrument
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device used to create specific sounds
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consonance
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a tone combination that is stable
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Characteristics of Blues
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12 bar form, AAB
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Rediscovered the single, couple based dances, reaction against AOR & LP's
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Disco
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music targeted a younger generation
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postwar era
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Created the Honky Tonk Style
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Hank Thompson
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Prominent genre during 1880's & 90's
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Minstrelsy
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dance, banjo, Call & response
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Black Contributions
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ballad
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a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
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score
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a written part of a musical composition
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first black owned record label, backed up by the Funk Brothers, Gordy started it on Westgrand Blvd.
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Motown
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Group of instruments playing a melody in harmony
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Soli
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Influential independent labels of postwar era
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Chess & Atlantic
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Graceland was his home, mass market for R&R, innovative
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Elvis
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Music associated with plight of Americans, "This land is your land"
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Woody Guthrie
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chord
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a combination of 3 or more tones sounded at once
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clef
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a musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes
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measure
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a group containing a fixed number of beats
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pitch
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the relative highness or lowness of a sound
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Used Imagery & metaphor, Rough sound with Harmonica, quirky sense of irony
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Bob Dylan
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Guitar player, first in country music hall of fame, yodeling
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Jimmy Rodgers
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"georgia on my mind" helped develop soul music
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Ray charles
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8 Min Anthem for Heavy Metal
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"Stairway to Heaven"
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Beach Boy song that had no identifiable song form
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"Good Vibrations"
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First concept album, had big impact, was a modest seller
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Pet Sounds
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Weary of war in Vietnam, Popular music was the target of politicians, growing cynicism about politics
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1970's
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Person who adapts the melody & chords to fit best with the group/singer
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Arranger
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First Broadway show with serious in depth characters
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Show Boat
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Non existent independent labels, became riskier, more musical choices
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music business in 70's
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melody
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a series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole
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Growth of Broadway, Talkies, Phonograph, Dance Music
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birth of Tin Pan Alley
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Early R&R, had white artist cover him, recorded standards, had a remake of "BlueBerry Hill"
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Fats Domino
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Exemplified Jump Blues, Sold 2 Mill copies, combined African American Music with Tin Pan Alley
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Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
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Bob Dylan tune with 2 keyboards
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"Like a Rolling stone"
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Race & Hillbilly records replaced by
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Soul and Country Western
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Not a pop orineted country star of 1970's
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Merle Haggard
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Who signed Bob Dylan, Benny Goodman & Count Basie
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John Hammond
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Learn history of music, seek out the meaning of songs through lyrics, why the music is popular
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Class Goals
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Innovations in technology, increase in the popularity of couples dance music, role of hollywood in promoting musical trends
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the rise of Disco
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Media superstars who contributed to ball room dances
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Vernon & Irene Castle
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Artist who has been sampled more than any other artist
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James Brown
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3 broad streams of music that influenced American Popular Music
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European, African & Latin
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"Genie with the light brown hair" "oh Susanna"
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Stephen Collins Foster
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Dense textures, Unusual Harmonies, Growling sound in the brass
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Duke Elington and Big Bands differences
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Sugar Hill Gang sampled this in "Rappers Delight"
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"Good TImes" by Chic
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Country radio show that was the home of country
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Grand Ole Opry
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Nickname for stretch of 28th street in NY
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Tin Pan Alley
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Example of the belief that older music technology is superior to newer technology
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Analog vs digital recording
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"twist"
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Chubby Checker
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legato
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smooth connected melody
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flow of funk
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Groove
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A Catchy Riff
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Hook
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Time Period for Swing
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1935-1945
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Symbolized female empowerment
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Aretha Franklin
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scouted for new talent
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A&R
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"Johnny B. Goode"
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Chuck Berry
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Queen of Soul
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Aretha Franklin
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Empress of Blues
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Bessie Smith
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tempo
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the speed of the beat
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accent
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emphasis on a particular tone
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Center for Psychadelic Rock
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San Francisco
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Famous ragtime performer
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Jelly Roll Morton
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Kansas City bands & Piano
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Boogie-Woogie
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metronome
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an apparatus that makes ticking sounds/flashes of light at any desired musical speed
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monophonic
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a single melodic line without accompaniment
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reed
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wind instruments/the part that is vibrated against the mouthpiece to create sound
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variation
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some features are retained while others are changed
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beat
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a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
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Most influential country blues artist
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Robert Johnson
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Forced all businesses that featured live music to pay a fee
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ASCAP
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#1 Carlos Santana Album in 1970
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Abraxas
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Head of the Beach Boys
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Brian Wilson
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Mandolin sound in Blue Grass
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Chop Chord
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American Graffiti, Grease, Happy Days
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1950's Nostalgia
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Joao Gilberto's style of music
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Bossa Nova
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Who developed the Bakersfield sound
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Merle Haggard
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Using previously recorded material to create new compositions
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Sampling
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Most Common Blues Form
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12 bar blues
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African American Music written primarily for an African American audience
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Race Records
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time signature
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a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and the type of note that takes a beat
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staff
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a set of horizontal lines and intermediate spaces used in notation to represent a sequence of pitches
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meter
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the organization of beats into regular groups
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homophonic
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when there is one main melody accompanied by chords, a melody that is supported
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sound
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begins with vibrations of an object which is transmitted to our ears via a medium, anything you hear
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tone
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a sound that has a definite pitch
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dynamics
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degrees of loudness or softness in music
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Electric amps, persistent beat, named after loud bars
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Honky Tonk
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How did swing Change popular music
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younger fans
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great influence on later Latin music, first to implement Bongos and tambourines
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Machito
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Wrote "Long Tall Sally" was wild
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Little Richard
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Name derived from enlivening a piece of music by shifting melodic accents onto the off beats
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Ragtime
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Most Common form of Tin Pan Alley
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AABA
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Influenced by Blues, Played Electric Guitar, Member of Yard Birds & Cream
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Eric Clapton
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Commercially produced music associated with southern whites
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Hill Billy Music
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Helped transition towards acid rock, best live, only one track that reached top 40's
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Grateful Dead
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The supremes, temptations & stevie wonder
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Motown Sound
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Most influential guitarist of rock era
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Jimi Hendrix
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Wrote "Nancy (with the laughing face)"
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Frank Sinatra
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syncopation
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when an accented note comes where we normally would not expect one
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interval
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the distance in pitch between any two tones
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harmony
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the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other
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arpeggio
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a broken chord or when the individual tones of a chord are sounded one after another
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downbeat
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the first or stressed beat of the measure
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texture
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how many different layers of sound are heard at once
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Had A mutual relationship with Tin Pan Alley
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Broadway
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Helped promote Jump Blues through his music
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Louis Jordan
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Type of Music with a Specific dialect
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Country Music
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Wild, Repeated syllables and used high pitch squeals
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James Brown
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type of dance with a triple meter accompaniment
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Waltz
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A group of lines of poetic text, usually exhibits recurring metrical patterns
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Verse
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First female rock & roll recording star
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Brenda Lee
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Jam Sessions that count basie attended were in
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Kansas City
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Masters of R&R, Covered Chuck Berry, Talked about California and surfing
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Beach Boys
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Song form most similar to 32 bar form
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AABA
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Twist, Tin Pan Alley System, younger people who grew up around rock & roll moved to higher positions in the record industry
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1960's trends
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From San Francisco, made "Somebody to Love"
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Jefferson Airplane
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Most Successful Black song writer, "Old Virginy"
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James A Bland
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Blended the country string bands with blues & Jazz, developed in Texas
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Western Swing
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Hill Bily Singer that was influenced by Bob Dylan
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Woody Guthry
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Pictures at an exposition (album)
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Emmerson, Lake, & Palmer
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climax
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the highest tone of a melody or the emotional focal point
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timbre
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tone color, how a sound sounds and is described
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Roy Caxton Acuff's National Anthem of Country music
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"Great Speckled Bird"
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changed the way he sung over phrasing, call & response with himself, and had a looser approach
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Robert Johnson
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Best seller, performed by Gene Austin then smashing pumpkins
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"My Blue Heaven"
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"It wasn't God who created Honky Tonk Angels" first female super star of country music
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Kitty Wells
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First Country Blues Star, wrote "Black Snake Moan"
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Blind Lemon Jefferson
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First marketing package album
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Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Song writers for artists such as Elvis
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Leider and Stoller
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Big Band Blues leader, 2 finger piano technique
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Count Basie
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Beatles movie that features # 1 song
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Hard days night
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New York, Los Angeles, & Nashville are examples of
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Music Centers
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Progressive rockers saw themselves as artists, LP's were the primary medium, concept albums were popular
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Rock coming of age
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New tech that influenced popular music sound in 1920's
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electric recordings, talkies, radio
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ASCAP strike, rise of less popular genres, AFM strike, rise of independent labels, WW 1
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decline of Big Bands
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what best describes rhythmic idea of swing
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Rhythmic flow & walking bass
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Racial boundaries had started to break down but they were far from equal
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Blacks & Whites during swing era
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