Transcript Roots of Country Music - National Louis University

Laura Clark
ETE 100-01
9/7/2005
Familiar Term:
 Acoustic refers
to music produced
by instruments
not amplified
electronically.
•Bluegrass
•Honky Tonk
•Zydeco
Genres of Country Music
•Country Rock
•Western Swing
•New Country
“Nashville Sound”
•Is a reed
instrument
with finger
boards, or
manuals, for
both hands,
connected by
a bellows.
•Used in
Tejano,
Zydeco, and
Western
Swing music.
•A plucked stringed instrument
• Metallic timbres are the product of
strings stretched over a membrane of
skin, plastic, or parchment.
•Known as
the
resonator
guitar
•Has a metal
resonator disc
mounted inside
the body
connected to the
bridge.
•Essentially the
same as the
violin
• One of the
primary
melodic
instruments
in traditional
country
music
•Small fretted
string
instrument
plucked with
the fingers, a
plectrum, or a
quill.
A popular folk instrument
of the 19th century
Provides chordal
accompaniments
with minimal effort
•Also known as
the Hawaiian
guitar
•A variant of
the acoustic
guitar
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