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- A smooth, serene style of jazz that began on the West Coast in the 1950s.
- Cool Jazz
- A more intense type of Bebop promoted by John Coltrane starting in the 1950s
- Hard Bop
- A type of up-tempo blues in the 1950s by Muddy Waters and Big Joe Turner
- Rhythm & Blues
- A pop-oriented type of smooth voal music derived from R & B, sung in tight harmonies by small groups with background singers making sonds on nonsense syllables
- Doo Wop
- The process of controlling multiple aspects of a composition by a pre-ordered numeric series of pitches
- Multi-serialism
- A rhythm that accents off-beats "2" and "4" in 4/4 time--an important feature of Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll
- Backbeat
- The process of recording everyday sounds on to tape and then manipulating them into new sounds using electronic oscilators and filters
- Musique Concrete
- A concept promoted by John Cage in which some or all aspects of a compositon are "indeterminant" (unpredictable--not planned in advance)
- Chance Music
- The speed of the beat
- Tempo
- Move on Up a little Higher
- Mahalia Jackson
- I Get a Kick Out Of You
- Frank Sinatra
- Where have all the flowers gone?
- The Kingston Trio
- West Side Story
- Leonard Bernstein
- Take Five
- Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Hound Dog
- Elvis Presley
- Tutti Frutti
- Little Richard
- I got a woman
- Ray Charles
- 4'33"
- John Cage
- I got my mojo workin'
- Muddy Waters
- Free Jazz
- Ornette Coleman
- Good Vibrations
- The Beach Boys
- Okie From Muskogee
- Merle Haggard
- The Twist
- Chubby Checker
- Ballad of the Green Berets
- Barry Sadler
- People
- Barbra Streisand
- The Times They are a changin'
- Bob Dylan
- My Girl
- The Temptations
- Handsome Johnny
- Richie Havens
- This folk-protest singer defied tradition by "going electric" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
- Bob Dylan
- The process of controlling multiple aspects of a composition by a pre-ordered numerical series.
- Multi-serialism
- He wrote a controversial Broadway musical in 1967 that portrays a meeting of the minds between San-Francisco hippies and a soldier headed for Vietnam.
- James Rado
- A free, peaceful rock concert in August 1969, attended by over 300,000 people
- Woodstock Music & Art Festival
- A free but violent rock concert in December 1969, policed by Hell's Angels,
- Altamont Festival
- He stunned America by doing a psychedelic and programmtic rendition of the national anthem at Woodstock.
- Jimi Hendrix
- The technique of adding music quietly under dialogue or a visual scene to evoke a specific mood or thematic connection.
- Underscoring
- In 1968, this soul singer urged African-American youths to be proud of who they are.
- James Brown
- A soundtrack of music written to be an integral part of a movie.
- Film Score
- The first major rock festival in history.
- Monterey Pop Festival
- an older technology that transferred physical sound to a vinyl disc or magnetic tape.
- Analog recording
- a newer technology that translates physical sound into a sequence of numbers that can be electronically stored, edited or played back.
- Digital Recording
- elaborate theatrical rock shows aimed more at watching and listening than dancing.
- Arena Rock
- a unified album in which each song tells part of a continuous story.
- Cyclic Album
- the term used to describe a combination of rock and jazz elements.
- Fusion
- a style of rock-blues with a thick, massive sound, highly-amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, and overall loudness.
- Heavy Metal
- the standard protocol language that allows computers to connect and communicate with a variety of digital electronic music devices.
- MIDI
- a type of art-music developed in the 1970s by Steve Reich and Philip Glass, focusing on small, repetitive bits of material that are gradually transformed over time.
- Minimalism
- a fast, hard-edged style of rock, with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and anti-establishment lyrics/attitude/fashion.
- Punk Rock
- a '70s style that melded blues, country, and rock elements by groups such as The Allman Brothers Band.
- Southern Rock
- "The Way We Were"
- Barbra Streisand
- "Sweeney Todd"
- Stephan Sondheim
- American Pie
- Don McLean
- Bitches Brew
- Miles Davis
- The Gambler
- Kenny Rogers
- School's Out
- Alice Cooper
- Dream On
- Aerosmith
- YMCA
- The Village People
- Psycho Killer
- The Talking Heads
- 1950s
- electric guitar, 45-rpm singles
- 1960s
- cassette tapes, 8 track tapes
- 1970
- apple personal computer, MIDI, compact disc, 12-inch single
- 1954
- Brown v. Board of Education, Segregation is unconstitutional
- 1963
- President John Kennedy assassinated
- 1968
- Martin Luther King Jr. & Senator Robert Kennedy assassinated
- 1973
- President Nixon resigns from office over Watergate scandal
- The 50's
- 50 million "baby boomers" were born, and Alaska and Hawaii added to the union
- 60's
- True: twice as many US soldiers were killed in Vietnam in just 1968, than have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq combined
- 70's
- US inflation hits 14% and gas prices went over $3 for the first time
- Gospel Music
- Mahalia Jackson
- Country Music
- Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers
- Broadway
- Stephan Sondheim
- Tin Pan Alley
- Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, The Carpenters
- Urban Folk Music
- Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, Ritchie Havens
- Early Rock & Roll
- Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley
- Psychedelic Rock
- Jimi Hendrix, The Doors
- Heavy Metal
- Aerosmith
- Arena Rock
- Alice Cooper, KISS
- Cool Jazz
- Dave Brubeck
- Jazz Fusion
- Miles Davis
- 50's R & B
- Muddy Waters
- Soul Music
- Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown
- Disco
- The Village People, Donna Summer
- Experimental Art Music
- Edgard Varese, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb, Steve Reich
- "Do That Stuff"
- Parliment Funkadelic
- "Rock Around the Clock"
- Bill Haley and his Comets
- "Hair" from Hair
- James Rado
- Poeme electronique (1958)
- Edgard Varese - electronic music
- Black Angels (1970)
- George Crumb - electrified string quartet
- "Ensembles for synthesizer"(1961)
- Milton Babbitt - multi serialism
- Violin Phase(1979)
- Steve Reich - minimalism
- "Turn, Turn, Turn"
- The Byrds - folk rock
- "Gloria" 1975
- Patti Smith - punk rock
- "Hey, Good Lookin'" 1951
- Hank Williams
- Psycho soundtrack 1960
- Bernard Hermann
- Jaws Theme Music 1975
- John Williams
- "Close to you"
- The Carpenters
- "Free Jazz: a collective improvisation"
- Ornette Coleman - free jazz
- Hotel California
- The Eagles - 70s pop rock