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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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1. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Syncopation
Binary form
Inverted Pedal
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
2. Maelzel's Metronome
Chromatic Scale
MM
Bare chord
Rondo Form
3. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
Rondo Form
Note that is transposing figured around
Unrelated Chord
4. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Atonal
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Augmented
Absolute Music
5. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Texture
Tonic Minor
Tenor
6. 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.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Monophonic
Rubato
Cross Rhythm
7. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Riff
Tonic Minor
Pentatonic Scale
Bye - tones
8. Background support for a melody.
Harmony
Dissonance
Submediant
Accompaniment
9. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Ternary Form
Portamento
Tonal Sequence
Chromatic
10. Without key center
B flat instruments
Ionian
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Atonal
11. F- F
Canon
Lydian
Harmony
Unrelated Chord
12. Distance between any two notes
Subdominant
Tenor
Interval
Accented Passing Note
13. 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.
Programme Music
Enharmonic
Consonance
Figured Bass
14. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Introduction
Melody
Semitone
Atonal
15. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
Bassoon
Rondo Form
Augmented
16. Glissando in jazz music
Rhythmic displacement
Smear
Mediant
Bare chord
17. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Rhythmic displacement
Pitch
B flat instruments
Monophonic
18. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Irregular rhythm
Phrase
Articulation
Tonic
19. American Bandmaster's Association
ASCAP
C Clefs
Mixolydian
ABA
20. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Consonance
Harmonic Minor Scale
Tonic
Syncopation
21. V - I
Harmony
B flat instruments
Perfect Cadence
Harmonic Minor Scale
22. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Note that is transposing figured around
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Supertonic
Texture
23. A- A
Dominant
Reasons for Transposing
Aeolian
Hocket
24. Combination of aggreable tones.
Aeolian
Canon
Sequence
Consonance
25. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Locrian
Arpeggio
ACDA
Ternary Form
26. 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.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Binary form
Cross Rhythm
Programme Music
27. Chord without a third.
Leading Note
Bare chord
Semitone
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
28. Pick up bar.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Accidentals
Dissonance
Anacrusis
29. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Coda
Major Scale Semitones
Concert pitch
Consonance
30. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Contrary motion
Phrase
Riff
Smear
31. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
Pedal Point
Harmonic Sequences
Rondo Form
32. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Alto Clef
Submediant
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Polyphonic
33. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.
Motif
Tonality
Bye - tones
Homophonic
34. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Pulse
Programme Music
Bare chord
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
35. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Diminished
Hammer on
Phrygian
Semitone
36. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
B flat Bass Transposition
Five finger exercise
C instruments
Enharmonic
37. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Countermelody
Rhythm
Reasons for Transposing
Real Sequence
38. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Bare chord
Canon
Hammer on
8
39. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Bassoon
Harmonic Minor Scale
Submediant
Inverted Pedal
40. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Notes of Anticipation
Tonic Minor
Blues
Plagal Cadence
41. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.
Imperfect Cadence
Figured Bass
Timbre
Alberti Bass
42. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Harmony
Canon
Inversion
Auxiliary Notes
43. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Subdominant
Canon
B flat instruments
Bassoon
44. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Interval
Semitone
Glissando
Polytonality
45. Occur in all parts.
Harmonic Sequences
ABA
ASTA
Inverted Pedal
46. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Extension
Submediant
Microtone
47. E- E
Canon
Phrygian
Arpeggio
Syncopation
48. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
ACDA
Kodaly Method
Bennet Reimer
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
49. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Lydian
5
Unrelated Chord
B flat instruments
50. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Accompaniment
Cross Rhythm
Lydian