Music Theory Final Exam M.C.

Music Theory final exam flashcards

Blues

-Form AAB, 12 bars

-Pain

-Feeling

-Depression

-Sadness

Delta Blues (Mississippi)Acoustic Guitar

-Robert Johnson: Crossroads

-Eric Clapton (Modern version of Crossroads)

Urban Blues (Chicago) Electric Guitar

-Muddy Waters: I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man

Father of the Blues

-W.C. Handy; first Black to get published, Memphis Blue

Melissma

-Gospel

-Highly emotional evangelical vocal music which came from Negro Spirituals

Jump Bands

-Louis Jordan

-Louis Prima

Louis Jordan

Caldonia

Louis Prima

I Ain’t Got Nobody/ Gigilo

Dixieland (1920) New Orleans (Improvised Music)

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

-When the Saints Go Marching In

-What a Wonderful World

-Hello Dolly

Bepop

Improvisation for the musician.

Doo-Wop (1940s-1959) Most Popular Black style

High falsetto leads, bass singer, lush harmonies

Miles Bros

Gloworm

What were Doo Wop groups named after?

Birds and cars

The Platters

-Most successful Doo-Wop group

-Started in 1955

-18 top 40 hits

-The Great Pretender and Only You

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

-Why Do Fools Fall In Love

-1956

-#6 on the charts

-13 years old when career started and 26 when he died of an overdose

-Manager had claimed to have saved his money in a trust but had actually spent it all which left Frankie to spiral

Hillbilly Music Late 1920’s, Music of the Rural South

-Poor White

-Appalachian Mountain Region

-The Foundation of Country Music (Ballads-Sung stories)

Father of Country Music

Jimmie Rogers

Jimmie Rogers (1897-1993)

-Died of TB

-Blue Yodel (T for Texas)

-Set the mold for Hank Williams and Ernest Tubbs

Grand Ole Opry

-WSM AM in Nashville, Tennessee

-50,000 watts radio station

AM/FM Radio

-Amplitude Modulation

-Frequency Modulation

Commercialized Cowboys in Hollywood

-Gene Autry

-Roy Rogers

Gene Autry

-Back in the Saddle Again

-South of The Border

Roy Rogers

-Don’t Fence Me I

Cowboy Music

Orchestrated to create a more commercial pop sound

Western Swing

-Incorporated jazz swing rhythms

-Bob Wills

Bob Wills

San Antonio Rose

Bluegrass

Virtuoso improvised solos around a melod

Father of Bluegrass

Bill Monroe

Bill Monroe

-Mandolin player

-Southern Flavor

Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatts

-Themes from the Beverly Hillbillies

-Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Honky Tonk

Bar Music

Hank Williams

-A poet with melodies

-Died at 30 of alcohol intoxication 1/1/1952

-6 year recording career

-Sold a million records, including:

Hey Good Lookin’

Your Cheating Heart

Jampalaya

Causes of the Demise of Rock and Roll

-Elvis was drafted into the army

-Carl Perkins had an automobile incident

-Little Richard Retired to enter the ministry

-Jerry Lee Lewis had a scandal marrying his 2nd cousin who was only 13

-Chuck Berry violated the Mann act which states that you cannot cross underage girls over state lines

-Buddy Holly and Richie Valens both died in a plane crash

Dance Crazes

-Limbo Rock

-The Twist

-Watusi

-Funky Chicken

-Dog

-Mashed Potato

Chubby Checker

-Limbo Rock

-The Twist

Bryan Hyland (1960)

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-dot Bikini

Bobby Pickett

Monster Mash (1962)

The Chipmunks and David Seville

-Witch Doctor

-The Chipmunk Song

Dick Clark

American Bandstand Hos and perpetual teenager

Frankie Avalon

Venus

Paul Anka

Put Your Head on My Shoulder

Bobby Darin

Mack the Knife

Pat Boone

Ain’t That a Shame

Tutti Frutti

Everly Brothers

All I Have To Do is Dream

Brill Building: New York City

A place at the corner of W 49th and Broadway, where more than 150 music businesses that employed hundreds of songwriters and other music professionals eventually located. They were young composers writing for young artists.

Neil Sedaka

-Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Barry Mann