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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Mixolydian
Accent
Tenor
Melody
2. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Subdominant
Binary form
Ostinato
Extension
3. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
45
Relative (Major/Minor)
Cor Anglais Transposition
Inverted Pedal
4. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Kodaly Method
Tenor Clef
Reasons for Transposing
Real Sequence
5. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Blues
Polyphonic
Subdominant
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
6. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Locrian
Absolute Music
Inversion
Harmonic Minor Scale
7. Used by composers in the Baroque period. Numbers underneath the bass line told the performer which chords to play. The bass part was called the continuo. Each number represents an interval between the bass and the note to be supplied.
Harmonic Minor Scale
Antiphonal
Tonic
Figured Bass
8. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Programme Music
Melodic Sequences
Diminution
Lydian
9. Glissando in vocal music
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Portamento
Supertonic
Texture
10. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Blues
Mediant
Accompaniment
B flat instruments
11. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.
Rondo Form
Pedal Point
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Major Scale Semitones
12. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Accented Passing Note
Inversion
Timbre
Portamento
13. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Melody
Portamento
MM
14. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Chromatic Scale
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Supertonic
Blues
15. Smallest complete unit of musical form containing about as much as can be held in a normal breath. Can be two to eight bars long.
Accompaniment
Consonance
Phrase
Concert pitch
16. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Rondo Form
C instruments
Absolute Music
Accented Passing Note
17. American Bandmaster's Association
ABA
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Rubato
Dominant
18. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Smear
Register
Melodic Sequences
Fanfare
19. A- A
Notes of Anticipation
Melody
Stretto
Aeolian
20. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Imitation
Melodic Minor Scale
Canon
Extension
21. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Repetition
Cross Rhythm
Countermelody
B flat instruments
22. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Accidentals
Friedrich Froebel
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Submediant
23. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Hocket
Atonal
Inversions of chords
Cor Anglais Transposition
24. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Alto Clef
Bye - tones
Harmonic
Kodaly
25. Interval of less than a semitone
Aeolian
Microtone
Notes of Anticipation
Dalcroze
26. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
ACDA
Note that is transposing figured around
Pitch
Auxiliary Notes
27. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Pitch
Concert pitch
Unrelated Chord
28. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Rubato
Repetition
Diminution
29. Combination of aggreable tones.
Cross Rhythm
Consonance
Chromatic Scale
Tonic Minor
30. Tone color or quality of sound.
Timbre
Phrase
Cross Rhythm
Fanfare
31. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Countermelody
5
Canon
Enharmonic
32. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Dissonance
Rhythmic displacement
Reasons for Transposing
Harmony
33. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Unrelated Chord
Locrian
Note that is transposing figured around
Chromatic Scale
34. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Imitation
Reasons for Transposing
Imperfect Cadence
Accent
35. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Atonal
Lydian
36. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
ABA
Riff
Subdominant
Relative (Major/Minor)
37. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Tonality
Fanfare
Cross Rhythm
38. F- F
Contrary motion
Note that is transposing figured around
Whole Tone Scale
Lydian
39. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Ionian
Bennet Reimer
Accented Passing Note
Tonic Minor
40. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
Introduction
C instruments
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Binary form
41. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Cross Rhythm
8
Dominant
Interval
42. How high or low a note is.
Pitch
Interval
Plagal Cadence
Friedrich Froebel
43. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.
Polytonality
Antiphonal
Rubato
MM
44. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Homophonic
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Interrupted Cadence
Augmentation
45. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Natural Minor Scale
5%
Contrary motion
Comenius
46. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Polyphonic
Friedrich Froebel
Antiphonal
Major Scale Semitones
47. American Choral Director's Association
Accent
Texture
Pull off
ACDA
48. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Accidentals
Bye - tones
Imitation
49. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Accent
Pedal Point
50. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Semitone
Monophonic
Stretto
Tonal Sequence