Call and response - ANSWER a song style in which a singer or musician leads with a call
and a group responds (could be voices or instruments)
Field holler - ANSWER an unaccompanied, rhythmically loose vocal line sung by a field
worker
Blue notes - ANSWER the lowered third and seventh scale degrees
12 bar blues progression - ANSWER I, I, I, I,
IV, IV, I, I,
V, V, I, I
4 measures repeated 3 times
Ostinato - ANSWER a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm
Boogie Woogie - ANSWER piano blues, 8 quick pulses per measure, barrelhouse
rhythm*, steady pattern (ostinato) in left hand*, complex polyrhythms between the 2 hands
(3 pulses in right against 2 in left)*
Barrelhouse rhythm - ANSWER bounced rhythm
Downbeat - ANSWER The first, or stressed, beat of the measure
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, Strophic song form - ANSWER A song form in which each verse of the text is sung to
the same music. The music for each verse remains the same while the words change. Most
blues songs and folk songs are strophic forms.
Rock n roll as an innuendo - ANSWER dancing/sex
Slapped bass - ANSWER method of bass playing used with the strumming of the
rhythm guitar provides percussive pulse that is very drum-like sound
Jali (griot) - ANSWER a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or
musician
Standard song form (AABA) - ANSWER A musical structure that typically consists of
two musical parts (A and B) played in four sections. Verse (a) and chorus (b)
Rockabilly - ANSWER Memphis country rock: 1/2 Nashville country, 1/2 blues;
emphasis on backbeat, 12-bar blues format
Double stops - ANSWER a technique applied to string instruments in which two strings
are pressed down and played simultaneously instead of just one
Two-beat bass - ANSWER A type of bass accompaniment in which the bassist plays the
root of the chord on the first beat of a measure and the fifth of the chord on the third beat
of a measure. Associated very strongly with county music.
Backbeat - ANSWER Placing a strong accent on the offbeats. In a four-beat measure,
the drummer typically emphasizes beats 2 and 4, creating the basic rhythm of rock music.
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and a group responds (could be voices or instruments)
Field holler - ANSWER an unaccompanied, rhythmically loose vocal line sung by a field
worker
Blue notes - ANSWER the lowered third and seventh scale degrees
12 bar blues progression - ANSWER I, I, I, I,
IV, IV, I, I,
V, V, I, I
4 measures repeated 3 times
Ostinato - ANSWER a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm
Boogie Woogie - ANSWER piano blues, 8 quick pulses per measure, barrelhouse
rhythm*, steady pattern (ostinato) in left hand*, complex polyrhythms between the 2 hands
(3 pulses in right against 2 in left)*
Barrelhouse rhythm - ANSWER bounced rhythm
Downbeat - ANSWER The first, or stressed, beat of the measure
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, Strophic song form - ANSWER A song form in which each verse of the text is sung to
the same music. The music for each verse remains the same while the words change. Most
blues songs and folk songs are strophic forms.
Rock n roll as an innuendo - ANSWER dancing/sex
Slapped bass - ANSWER method of bass playing used with the strumming of the
rhythm guitar provides percussive pulse that is very drum-like sound
Jali (griot) - ANSWER a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or
musician
Standard song form (AABA) - ANSWER A musical structure that typically consists of
two musical parts (A and B) played in four sections. Verse (a) and chorus (b)
Rockabilly - ANSWER Memphis country rock: 1/2 Nashville country, 1/2 blues;
emphasis on backbeat, 12-bar blues format
Double stops - ANSWER a technique applied to string instruments in which two strings
are pressed down and played simultaneously instead of just one
Two-beat bass - ANSWER A type of bass accompaniment in which the bassist plays the
root of the chord on the first beat of a measure and the fifth of the chord on the third beat
of a measure. Associated very strongly with county music.
Backbeat - ANSWER Placing a strong accent on the offbeats. In a four-beat measure,
the drummer typically emphasizes beats 2 and 4, creating the basic rhythm of rock music.
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