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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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1. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Subdominant
Relative (Major/Minor)
Rhythm
Semitone
2. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Tonic Minor
Texture
Phrygian
Figured Bass
3. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Natural Minor Scale
Atonal
Tonal Sequence
4. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
A instruments
Augmented
Introduction
Cross Rhythm
5. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Kodaly
Canon
Tenor
Binary form
6. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Programme Music
Subdominant
Kodaly
Bye - tones
7. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Pitch
Glissando
Augmented
Enharmonic
8. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pulse
Diminution
Melody
Polyphonic
9. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Contrary motion
Rhythmic Imitation
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Extension
10. Occur in all parts.
45
8
Harmonic Sequences
Syncopation
11. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Kodaly
Auxiliary Notes
Melodic Sequences
Relative (Major/Minor)
12. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Fragmentation
ASTA
Mixolydian
Irregular rhythm
13. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Unrelated Chord
Riff
Phrygian
5%
14. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Inverted Pedal
Hammer on
Ostinato
Timbre
15. G- G
Portamento
Inverted Pedal
Mixolydian
Pulse
16. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Phrygian
Antiphonal
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
5%
17. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Harmony
Chromatic
Tonic Minor
Melody
18. Distance between any two notes
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale
Binary form
Interval
19. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Rubato
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Syncopation
Microtone
20. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Bennet Reimer
B flat instruments
Phrygian
Tenor Clef
21. American Choral Director's Association
ACDA
Passing Notes
Pentatonic Scale
Sequence
22. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Rondo Form
Perfect Cadence
Diminished
Notes of Anticipation
23. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Rhythmic displacement
ASTA
Whole Tone Scale
Supertonic
24. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
8
Five finger exercise
Polyphonic
Melodic Minor Scale
25. Musical announcement played on brass instruments before the arrival of an important person. Usually played on trumpets and built from the notes of one major triad.
Imitation
Anacrusis
Fanfare
ABA
26. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Tonic
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Bassoon
27. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Kodaly Method
Reasons for Transposing
Appoggiaturas
Cor Anglais Transposition
28. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Note that is transposing figured around
ASCAP
Harmonic
Register
29. 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.
Interval
JRME
Bare chord
Pedal Point
30. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Development
Riff
Passing Notes
31. E- E
5
Subdominant
Appoggiaturas
Phrygian
32. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Tempo
Melodic Sequences
Glissando
33. 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.
Alberti Bass
Rhythmic Imitation
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Accompaniment
34. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Aeolian
Five finger exercise
5
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
35. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Blues
Binary form
Pull off
Natural Minor Scale
36. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Pentatonic Scale
B flat Bass Transposition
Rhythmic displacement
Homophonic
37. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Imperfect Cadence
Chromatic
Fanfare
Imitation by Inversion
38. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Chromatic Scale
Dalcroze
Tempo
Arco
39. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Coda
Alberti Bass
Leading Note
Tenor
40. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Supertonic
Submediant
Arco
Harmonic Sequences
41. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Dalcroze
B flat instruments
Melodic Minor Scale
Natural Minor Scale
42. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Motif
Phrygian
Stretto
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
43. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Mediant
Pedal Point
Imitation
44. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Atonal
Augmentation
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Stretto
45. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Concert pitch
Dalcroze
Harmonic
Cor Anglais Transposition
46. 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.
Hammer on
5%
Repetition
Motif
47. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Appoggiaturas
A instruments
Rondo Form
Irregular rhythm
48. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Accent
Aeolian
Rhythmic displacement
Cor Anglais Transposition
49. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
C instruments
Semitone
ABA
Programme Music
50. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
Friedrich Froebel
Locrian
Microtone