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What is "pizzicatio"?

The technique of playing a normally bowed instrument by plucking its strings.
What is the smallest unit of musical form?

A Motive
What are the three most basic formal processes in music?

Repitition, variation, and contrast
What is another name for the ABA form?

Ternary form
What is the subject of a fugue called?

Fugue subject
The blues is rooted in what tradition?

African-American Oral Tradition
Which three scale degrees are bent to form blues notes?

The thrid, fifthe, and seventh
What is another name for the response in the "call-and-response" form?

the fill
What African-American slave musical tradition is religious in its origins?

Ring shout
Why were slaves prohibited from playing loud instruments?

Slave owners feared that slaves would communicate through music to organize escapes or uprisings
What African-American slave musical tradition featured the improvisation of a single performer?

Field Holler
Blues musicians adopted the business model of what two performance styles?

The minstrel show and vaudeville
What performance style predominantly featured blackface?

The minstrel show
What is the name of the paths that minstrel troupes used as they traveled from city to city?

Theater circuits
Early blues is closely tied to what region?

The Mississipi Delta
What is another name for a traveling singer?

Songster
What blues tradition is considered the oldest?

Country blues
What type of singer dominated the vocals of the classic blues?

Professional female vaudeville singers
George Gershwin was a central composer of what form of blues?

Tin Pan Alley Blues
Who is called the "Father of the Blues"?

WC Handy
Where was WC Handy born?

Alabama
What instrument did WC Handy play for a minstrel group during the 1890s?

Cornet
When was "Memphis Blues" published?

1912
Where did WC Handy set up his music publishing business?

New York City
How was music most often disseminated before 1920?

Through sheet music
What composer os credited with the preperation of blues for the mainstream?

WC Handy
The introduction of "St. Louis Blues" makes use of what texture?

Polyphony
What harmonic structure is used in "St. Louis Blues"?

Twelve-bar blues form
The B section of "St. Louis Blues" is an example of what kind of blues?

Classic blues
Who performed "Crazy Blues" in 1920?

Mamie Smith
Who was called the "Queen of the Blues"?

Bessie Smith
Which record company signed Bessie Smith in 1923?

Columbia Records
Which country blues musician wrote songs about serious issues such as lynching?

Blind Blake
What form of blues suffered the most from the Great Depression?

Classic Blues
Bessie Smith starred in what 1929 film?

"St. Louis Blues"
Where did Bessie Smith replace Billie Holiday as a club singer?

A club in New York City
When did the theatre's owner's booking association go out of business?

1931
Why did record companies stop recording almost all blues musicians during the 1930s?

The financial risk of recording was too great
Where did many former blues stars perform during the 1930s?

Small clubs in the North or tent shows in the South
What event marked the end of the classic blues singer era?

The stock market crashed
What prompted Blind Blake's record company to drop him?

A sharp decline in record sales
What form of blues features lyrics less emotional than classic blues?

Downhome blues
What is the main reason downhome blues appealed to urban audiences?

It maintained a close tie with the rural blues tradition
What instrument did Scrapper Blackwell play?

Guitar
How old was Robert Johnson when he died?

27 years old
Which country blues musician had a notable influence on Robert Johnson?

Son House
How many recordings did Robert Johnson make in Texas

30
Which record company was the leader in recordinf African-American music after 1934/

Decca Records
Who created the "Southside Chicago" sound?

Big Bill Broonzy
Who is called the "Father of Modern Chicago Blues"?

Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters was most siccessful under what record label?

Bluebird
Where was Hokum developed/

Chicago
What is abother name for Hokum?

Party blues
What style of piano blues features a frantic pace and angular accompaniment?

Boogie-woogie
Benny Motens' famous jazz orchestra was based in what city?

Kansas City
What prompted the interest in collecting American floksong during the 1930s?

The left-leaning movement that favored the culture of the "common man" and sought socio-economic equality

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