An Introduction to America’s Music
12-inch single. A 45-rpm single the size of an LP and typically holding a longer version of a popular song, such as a dance mix. ...
A2 GLOSSARY harmony lines, and a bass voice provides harmonic underpinning and occasional countermelodies. barrelhouse piano. Se ...
GLOSSARY A3 Cajun music. Music of Cajuns (descendants of French Canadians living in Louisiana), emphasizing dance rhythms and of ...
A4 GLOSSARY couple dance. A courtly dance of French origin such as the gavotte, the bourrée, or the minuet. cover. Since the 195 ...
GLOSSARY A5 fair use. The legal concept that no formal permission is needed when a work of art or literature is copied or quoted ...
A6 GLOSSARY harmonic. The resulting sound when a string instru- ment is plucked or bowed while the performer lightly touches the ...
GLOSSARY A7 key. A way to characterize a passage of music accord- ing to the diatonic scale it uses and that scale’s tonic pitch ...
A8 GLOSSARY monophony. A musical texture consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line. motive. A brief thematic element. M ...
GLOSSARY A9 expression, such as theater, dance, music, and vis- ual art. persona. The character who seems to be singing or narra ...
A10 GLOSSARY reel. A country dance tune in simple duple meter. refrain. Words that repeat verbatim at the end of each stanza or ...
GLOSSARY A11 slack key. Style of Hawaiian music that uses a standard acoustic guitar in nonstandard tunings. slide guitar. See b ...
A12 GLOSSARY texture. The interactions between multiple melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic layers. theme and variations. Musical fo ...
GLOSSARY A13 vamp. A short section of music meant to be repeated until a fresh musical statement is ready to be introduced. vari ...
A14 CREDITS TEXT CREDITS LG 11.3: “Blue Yodel no. 8 (Muleskinner Blues)” by Jim- mie Rodgers and Vaughn Horton. © 1931, 1950 by ...
A15 Courtesy New England Conservatory; page 188: Library of Congress; page 189: Corbis; page 192: Corbis; page 196: The Charles ...
A16 INDEX aaba form, 148, 149, 379, 454, 455 abolitionist movement, 151–56, 159 , 162 c, 225 abortion, 538 Abraxas (Santana), 46 ...
INDEX A17 Alliance and Labor Songster (Vincent), 163 c, 223 Allman, Duane, 469 A llman Brothers Band, 469 All Set (Babbitt), 390 ...
A18 INDEX Bach family, 41 backbeat, 291, 421 back phrasing, 381, 383 Backstreet Boys, 536 Bad Brains, 508 “Bad Girls,” 481 Bad R ...
INDEX A19 Bitches Brew (Davis), 482, 483 Bizet, Georges, 324 Black, Bill, 427, 428 Black, Brown, and Beige (Ellington), 255 c, 2 ...
A20 INDEX Brooks, Charlotte, 100 Broonzy, Big Bill, 337 brother duos, 343 Brower, Frank, 134 Brown, Clifford, 402 Brown, David, ...
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