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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Ternary Form
Real Sequence
Five finger exercise
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
2. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Motif
Kodaly
Tonality
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
3. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Tonal Sequence
Natural Minor Scale
Mixolydian
Inversions of chords
4. Pick up bar.
Consonance
Anacrusis
Texture
Pull off
5. 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.
Friedrich Froebel
Figured Bass
Interrupted Cadence
Semitone
6. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Rhythmic displacement
Melodic Minor Scale
Comenius
Rondo Form
7. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Pentatonic Scale
Imperfect Cadence
Retrograde
Bennet Reimer
8. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
Imitation
Atonal
Accent
9. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Glissando
5
Bare chord
Pulse
10. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Rhythmic Imitation
Portamento
Bassoon
A instruments
11. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Harmonic
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Major Scale Semitones
Tempo
12. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Primary Triads
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Polyphonic
Instruments that transpose at the octave
13. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Harmonic Sequences
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Melodic Sequences
Semitone
14. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Sequence
Inversion
Kodaly
Supertonic
15. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
Alto Clef
Augmentation
Tonic
16. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Melodic Minor Scale
Subdominant
Perfect Cadence
17. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Dominant
45
Semitone
Tenor
18. How high or low a note is.
Imperfect Cadence
Dalcroze
Pitch
5
19. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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20. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
8
A instruments
Mixolydian
Inversion
21. D- D
Accompaniment
Dorian Mode
Binary form
Imperfect Cadence
22. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Pentatonic Scale
Bye - tones
Articulation
Arco
23. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
C instruments
Timbre
Alto Clef
Dorian Mode
24. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
Tenor Clef
Subdominant
AOSA
25. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Cadence
Imitation
Tonal Sequence
Aeolian
26. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Dissonance
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Motif
Cadence
27. 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.
Rubato
Real Sequence
French Horn Transposition
Passing Notes
28. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
Hammer on
MM
Riff
29. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Five finger exercise
Pentatonic Scale
Tonic Minor
Harmony
30. Organization of musical notes in time.
Imperfect Cadence
Binary form
Rhythm
Smear
31. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
Chromatic Scale
Augmentation
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
32. General music is required until grade...
ABA
AOSA
Harmonic
8
33. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Cadence
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Interval
Irregular rhythm
34. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Retrograde
Alberti Bass
Fragmentation
Contrary motion
35. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Accented Passing Note
Friedrich Froebel
45
Bare chord
36. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Repetition
Imitation by Inversion
Portamento
Passing Notes
37. G- G
Bare chord
Kodaly
Relative (Major/Minor)
Mixolydian
38. V - I
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Stretto
Perfect Cadence
39. F- F
ABA
Lydian
Accompaniment
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
40. Distance between any two notes
Interval
Dorian Mode
ASCAP
Melodic Sequences
41. 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.
Kodaly
Rhythm
Interrupted Cadence
Motif
42. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Subdominant
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Bennet Reimer
Bassoon
43. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Introduction
Harmony
B flat instruments
Locrian
44. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Tonic
Register
Tenor
Accompaniment
45. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Diminished
Chromatic
Five finger exercise
Rubato
46. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Melodic Sequences
Dominant
Arpeggio
JRME
47. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Interrupted Cadence
Enharmonic
Dissonance
Melody
48. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Diminution
Countermelody
Sequence
49. 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.
Articulation
Glissando
Harmonic Sequences
French Horn Transposition
50. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Phrase
Accidentals
Extension
Inversion