Decades Vocabulary

3. a style of jazz played on the piano with 8 eighth notes in each measure
9. American music that became popular in the 1950s and was a fusion of African American jazz, gospel, blues, and of Western country music
11. a rhythm that accents weak beats
13. to make something up with little or no preparation
18. a person who introduces and plays popular recorded music
20. catchy music that appeals to teens and pre/teens and emphasizes romantic love

1. popular dance music of the 1970s with a regular bass beat
2. a type of jazz played by a big band, for dancing
4. a short pattern in music that keeps repeating itself
5. a group of notes, usually 3 or more, played at the same time for harmony
6. an electronic musical keyboard that produces a wide variety of sounds
7. improvised singing on nonsense syllables
8. music with African American roots that often has a 12/bar structure and three lines of lyrics that are sad or angry
10. popular music that came from folk music of the South and cowboy music of the Western U.S.
12. any music that has wide appeal during its time
14. recording separate music tracks, to be later combined into a single track
15. piano music with an “oom/pah” in the left hand and syncopation in the right hand
16. a movie or play with a lot of singing and dancing
17. a genre of African American music which arose in the 1980s and 1990s, rhyming lyrics are spoken with a musical background
19. music style with improvisation and syncopation, has African American roots