Study guide – self test chapters 5-7

Note: I have shortened the list from the chapter study guides.  While all the information is important, song and musicians that are left off this list will not be on the test.  Note: All terms and questions from the study guide are still subject to be on the test.

Style

Classic Blues

Country Blues

Big Band Blues

Jump Blues

Electric Blues

Hillbilly music

            (religious)

Hillbilly music

            (secular)

Jungle music

Western Swing

Boogie-woogie

Honky-tonk

Big Band

Postwar Big Singer

R&B

Musician

W.C. Handy

“Ma” Rainey

Bessie Smith

Louis Armstrong

Charley Patton

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Robert Johnson

Jimmie Rodgers

The Carter Family

Fletcher Henderson

Benny Goodman

Count Basie

Duke Ellington

Glen Miller

Roy Acuff

Gene Autry

Frank Sinatra

King Cole

Muddy Waters

Ernest Tubb

Hank Thompson

Kitty Wells

Hank Williams

Bob Wills (and the Texas Playboys)

Bill Monroe

Louis Jordan

Song

St. Louis Blues

Tom Rushen Blues

That Black Snake Moan

Crossroad Blues

Blue Yodel No.11

Wrappin’ it up

Taking a Chance on Love

Koko

In the Mood

Great Speckled Bird

Cool Water

Nancy

Choo Choo Ch’Boogie

Wild Side of Life

It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-tonk Angels

Hey Good Lookin’

I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry

New San Antonio Rose

Gospel Ship

Styles, techniques, and forms:

Bottleneck technique

Boogie-woogie

Walking bass

Distortion

Feedback

Amplified instruments

12-bar blues

16-bar blues

Composer associated with the classic blues style, and song title by that composer.  What instruments are used?  What is the form of the song?

Three performers associated with the classic blues style. 

Three performers associated with the country blues style, and songs they wrote. What instrument is used?  How does its use vary?

Three composers associated with big band blues, and songs they wrote.  What techniques do we here in their music? Which is associated with “jungle music”?  Which two big band blues artists are associated with the Harlem Renaissance?

Performer of jump blues style, and song he recorded:

Performer of  the electric blues style and song he recorded.  What is the form of that song?  What are the techniques/instruments used in that recording.

Two hillbilly record acts.  Which are religious and which is the rebel?

What group is associated with western swing?  What instruments do we hear in this group?

Name two composers whose music features a boogie-woogie bass line.

There are three kinds of country & western in the postwar era.  What are they, and who are the people that represent those styles.

Name two singers of popular songs famous in the 1940s.  What songs are they known for?