MUSIC TODAY UNIT I STUDY GUIDE
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1. America’s 1st million sheet music seller (1892) by Charles K Harris
2. The song publishing neighborhood in New York City/popular music establishment
3. Greatest American song composer of the 19th Century (His music was often performed in
minstrel shows.)
4. Precursor to musical theatre, it centered around white actors characterizing blacks
5. America’s 1st heartthrob, Crooner
6. Popular composer on Tin Pan Alley, wrote “God Bless America”
7. Precursor to Jazz, March form
8. Theatrical format of independent performers beginning in the 1880s, toured around the country
9. The most famous Ragtime composer/performer
10. Type of form with one melody repeated over and over with changing verses/text
11. Blues diva of the 1920s
12. Sang “Crazy Blues” – 1st recording by a Black Singer
13. (Chicago Urban Blues singer – later influenced many musicians)
14. Type of song form with three line stanzas: It has an opening statement, repeats the statement,
and then has a punch line or resolution
15. Composed music for West Side Story
16. Song-writing team who wrote Cats and Phantom of the Opera
17. Song-writing team who wrote Oklahoma, South Pacific, and The Sound of Music
18. Wrote Porgy and Bess
19. Spontaneous creation of a performer (made up as they go along)
20. Combining tones to create relaxation (Sounds “right)
21. Combining tones to create tension (doesn’t sound “right”)
22. (Short, repeated phrase ____________)
23. Long-short pattern per beat as opposed to 2-part equal subdivision
24. 1 of 2 pioneers of Bebop
25. Unique form of African American music, a result of significant culture mix
26. Most well-known style of Latin Jazz
27. Pitch adjustments; lowering the 3rd and 7th scale degrees
28. Style of jazz with solos, bright sound, high range, lots of rhythms (Louis Armstrong played it)
29. Most widely known of cool groups in the 1950s, his song “Take 5” was the best selling jazz
single of all time.
30. Founder of “Cool Jazz”
31. Style of jazz with warm, mellow sound. Narrower range, romantic, laid back
32. Band leader (Big Band) also considered ‘serious’ composer
33. Most popular period for Jazz
34. Combination of samba and bebop
35. Jazz style beginning in the mid 1940s, tempos are extremely fast or extremely slow
36. Using nonsense syllables instead of words to imitate articulation of instruments
37. Jazz form with spontaneous improvisation with little or no regard for prescribed form, melody
or chords
38. Jazz innovator who was instrumental in promoting acceptance of Jazz-Rock fusion
39. Emphasizing notes that don’t align wit the pulse or beat (displacing regular accents in music)
40. 1st white Jazz master/star
41. The birthplace of Jazz
42. The “Johnny Appleseed” of Jazz, he spread it all over the world
43. Chicago bandleader known for tight, controlled arrangements (member of Red Hot Peppers)
44. He developed the most commercially successful of swing bands