19th Century
_______ _________ refers to instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, especially popular in the nineteenth century.
program music
_______ _______ _______ is a technique where a musical phrase is followed by a response, often a different phrase or a reiteration of the first phrase. Like a musical conversation!
call and response
A _______ is a remake of an earlier, often successful song typically with the goal of reaching a broader audience.
cover
In the 1970s, _______ ________ was a response or countermovement to the slick production styles of Nashville.
outlaw country
_________ involves the inclusion of an element of a pre-existing recording by someone else in a composition.
sampling
What is one of the most common musical forms in blues music?
12 bar blues
A/n ________ (fixed idea), acts as a musical thread in a large musical work.
idée fixe
______ is a style of jazz music that developed contemporaneously with a style of dancing known by the same name in the late 1920s to 1940s.
swing
_______ is a genre of dance music with roots in swing jazz as well as blues singing.
rhythm and blues (R&B)
What genre of music draws from old-time music but is faster, more virtuosic, based on solos, for listening rather than dancing, and includes more vocals?
bluegrass
John Williams, and many other composers, often use _________ (leading motives) or basic recurring themes that represent a person, object or idea.
leitmotif
_________ _______ was a combination of country music and swing and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys were key figures.
Western swing
The opera Rigoletto, featuring a hunchbacked court jester, was written by __________.
Giuseppe Verdi
In the the 1920s-1930s, women dominated ________ ________, a style that often included pianos and horns.
classic blues
What was the name of one of the main African-derived rhythms that early rock guitarist Bo Diddley used?
hambone
What is the current term for the mostly instrumental music that rural communities played in the 17th-19th centuries in the United States which is largely influenced by European immigrants?
old-time
Although it was not the first rap recording, the song ______ _______ by the Sugarhill Gang became the first rap single to become a top 40 hit on Billboard Hot 100.
"Rapper's Delight"
Who was the DJ for the party in the Bronx in 1973 that is cited as the birth of hip hop?
DJ Kool Herc
Italian operas marked the high point of ____ ______ (beautiful singing) style, florid melodic lines delivered by agile voices with pure tone.
bel canto
_______ _______ emerged from African American vocal genres such as field hollers, street cries, and work songs in the 19th century and earlier and typically involved just one or two musicians singing and playing guitar and/or harmonica.
country blues
Rock music typically uses quadruple meter with an emphasis on second and fourth beat known as a _______.
backbeat
What important country music family recorded in Bristol, TN in 1927?
Carter Family
Name 5 out of the 9 elements of hip hop according to KRS-One.
1.Breakin
2.Emceein
3.Graffiti Art
4.Deejayin
5.Beat Boxin
6.Street Fashion
7.Street Language
8.Street Knowledge
9.Street Entrepreneurialism
Composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was known for his use of ________ ________, the musical expansion of a theme by varying melodic outline, harmony, or rhythm.
thematic transformation
19th century Italian opera defined largely by ______ ______ (serious opera) and _____ _____ (the Italian version of comic opera), genres that had already been well-established.
opera seria, opera buffa
Which jazz composer, bandleader and piano player appeared regularly at the Cotton Club and generally played music for concerts instead of for dancing?
Duke Ellington
Electric guitars use a device called a _________ which is made up of magnets wrapped in fine copper wire.
pickup
What genre or style turned country into a multimillion dollar industry and involved smooth vocals and string sections?
countrypolitan
________ is when the music comes from an unseen source music (the characters cannot hear this music) while ________ refers to music that comes from a logical source in the scene and functions as part of the story.
underscoring, source music
The tuning system of the gamelan set at Allegheny College, one of two possible tuning systems for Javanese gamelan, is called ________.
slendro