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MUSC 351 Midterm Flashcards

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The Satintones

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“Motor City”

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The Swinging Tigers

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Snake Walk (Parts 1 & 2)

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Barrett Strong

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Money (That’s What I Want)

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Eddie Holland

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Jamie

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The Marvelettes

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Please Mr. Postman

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The Miracles

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Shop Around

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The Miracles

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You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me

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Mary Wells

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My Guy

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The Contours

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Do You Love Me

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Junior Walker and the All Stars

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Shotgun

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The Mynah Birds

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It’s My Time

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Martha and the Vandellas

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Dancing in the Street

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The Temptations

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The Way You Do the Things You Do

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Little Stevie Wonder

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Fingertips (Part 2)

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The Temptations

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My Girl

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The Supremes

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Where did our love go

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The Supremes

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Stop! in the name of love

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The Four Tops

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I can’t help myself (sugar pie honey bunch)

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The Four Tops

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standing in the shadows of love

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Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

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Ain’t no mountain high enough

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Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

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You’re all I need to get by

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A&R

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artist and repertoire; responsible for talent scouting and artistic development of the artists and songwriters

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Who was A & R for Motown?

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William “Mickey” Stevenson

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Accent

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stress or special emphasis on a beat

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Amplification
artificial volume enhancement
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Answer song
song that refers to or "answers" a previous song
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Example of answer song
please mr postman to twisting postman
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Apollo Theater
located in the harlem district of NYC; last stop for the motor town revue tour (theatre in chitlin circuit)
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Backbeat
extra emphasis on the second and fourth beats in a quadruple meter
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Beat
regular pulse which lasts through piece of music
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Blues
secular predominantly black American folk music of the 20th century (oral rather than written)
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Bridge
contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section
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Call and response
singer makes musical statement which is answered by another soloist instrument or group
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Chitlin' circuit
music venues that were safe and acceptable for African American performers
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Chord
simultaneous sounding of different notes to form a unified musical entity
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Cover
when whites would re-record black artists songs to market to whites
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Example of cover
Tutti Frutti by Little Richard was covered by Pat Boone
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Crossover
song that originates in one segment of music market but achieves success in another segment
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Doo-wop
close harmonies with nonsense syllables
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Falsetto
singing technique that enables a single to produce notes higher than those in his or her voice range
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Gospel
religious music of African-Americans that emerged in urban centers during the early decades of the 20th century
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Harmony
combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chores and chord progressions
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Jazz
musical tradition that developed in the 20th century in African-American communities mixing african and european musical traditions. characterized by syncopation, melodic and harmonic elements derived from the blues
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Leslie speaker
made the doppler-effect by spinning horns in an organ
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Melody
linear succession of notes that form a unified musical entity
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Multi-tracking
several recorded sounds on the same segment of tape
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Ostinato
musical phrase or pattern that repeats
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Rhythm
temporal arrangement of sounds into various patterns of duration
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Stop time
musical device in which the forward flow of the music stops or seems to stop
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Strophic
musical form that features different text over the same or extremely similar musical material
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Tempo
speed of musical work (bp)
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Texture
way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition
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Timbre
quality or "color" of a sound
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Time signature
defines the meter of the music (number of beats in a measure and the type of note that fills one beat)
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Tin Pan Alley
street in NYC home to a lot of music publishers
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Verse-chorus
musical form based on several stanzas of different text sung to the same music

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