FINAL TEST REVIEW
Definitions
Alternative Music/Alternative Rock- An early 1908s genre that arose in the wake of punk
rock’s decline and in opposition to mainstream rock music.
Analog Recording- A system of sound recording in which the energy of sound waves is
transformed into physical imprints or unto electronic waveforms that closely follow the shape of
the sound waves themselves.
Auto-tune- An electronic device used in recording studios to correct and manipulate the pitches
sung by a vocalist. To auto tune is to change the vocalist’s original pitch to the correct one after
the recording has been made.
Bossa Nova- a style of Brazilian music derived from samba but placing more emphasis on
melody and less on percussion.
Brill Building- A New York City office building where several major music publishers and
record labels located their operations in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Bugalu- A fusion of rumba, and mambo with black American popular music.
Cadence- A melodic or harmonic event that signals the end of a musical line or section, or of
the piece as a whole.
Concept Album- A record album conceived as an artistic totality, rather than a collection of
individual songs.
Counterculture- A subculture existing in opposition to and espousing values contrary to those
of the dominant culture.
Counterpoint- The sounding of two independent melodic lines or voices against one another.
Countrypolitan- A popular style of country music that emerged in Nashville in the mid 1960s
and combines elements of traditional country with mainstream pop sounds.
CBGB- a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in Manhattan's East Village.
The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar.[1] The letters CBGB were for
country, bluegrass, and blues.
CRTC- Canadian content (CanCon, cancon or can-con) refers to the Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requirements, derived from the Broadcasting Act
of Canada, that radio and television broadcasters (including cable and satellite specialty
channels) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced,
presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada. It also refers to that content
itself, and, more generally, to cultural and creative content that is Canadian in nature.
Digital recording- A system of sound recording that transforms sound waves into a stream of
numbers which is converted back to an analog wave by a digital-to-analog converter in order to
be heard.
Digital samplers- A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a
synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings (or "samples") of sounds that
are loaded or recorded into it by the user, and then played back by means of the sampler
program itself, a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device, to perform or compose music.
Digital sequencers- In digital audio recording, a sequencer is a program in a computer or stand-alone
keyboard unit that puts together a sound sequence from a series (or sequence) of Musical Instrument
Definitions
Alternative Music/Alternative Rock- An early 1908s genre that arose in the wake of punk
rock’s decline and in opposition to mainstream rock music.
Analog Recording- A system of sound recording in which the energy of sound waves is
transformed into physical imprints or unto electronic waveforms that closely follow the shape of
the sound waves themselves.
Auto-tune- An electronic device used in recording studios to correct and manipulate the pitches
sung by a vocalist. To auto tune is to change the vocalist’s original pitch to the correct one after
the recording has been made.
Bossa Nova- a style of Brazilian music derived from samba but placing more emphasis on
melody and less on percussion.
Brill Building- A New York City office building where several major music publishers and
record labels located their operations in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Bugalu- A fusion of rumba, and mambo with black American popular music.
Cadence- A melodic or harmonic event that signals the end of a musical line or section, or of
the piece as a whole.
Concept Album- A record album conceived as an artistic totality, rather than a collection of
individual songs.
Counterculture- A subculture existing in opposition to and espousing values contrary to those
of the dominant culture.
Counterpoint- The sounding of two independent melodic lines or voices against one another.
Countrypolitan- A popular style of country music that emerged in Nashville in the mid 1960s
and combines elements of traditional country with mainstream pop sounds.
CBGB- a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in Manhattan's East Village.
The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar.[1] The letters CBGB were for
country, bluegrass, and blues.
CRTC- Canadian content (CanCon, cancon or can-con) refers to the Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requirements, derived from the Broadcasting Act
of Canada, that radio and television broadcasters (including cable and satellite specialty
channels) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced,
presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada. It also refers to that content
itself, and, more generally, to cultural and creative content that is Canadian in nature.
Digital recording- A system of sound recording that transforms sound waves into a stream of
numbers which is converted back to an analog wave by a digital-to-analog converter in order to
be heard.
Digital samplers- A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a
synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings (or "samples") of sounds that
are loaded or recorded into it by the user, and then played back by means of the sampler
program itself, a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device, to perform or compose music.
Digital sequencers- In digital audio recording, a sequencer is a program in a computer or stand-alone
keyboard unit that puts together a sound sequence from a series (or sequence) of Musical Instrument
