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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Tone color or quality of sound.
C instruments
Dissonance
Timbre
Five finger exercise
2. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Passing Notes
Instruments that transpose at the octave
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Subdominant
3. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Interval
Tonic
Harmonic Minor Scale
4. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Coda
Countermelody
Leading Note
Unrelated Chord
5. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Kodaly Method
Microtone
Canon
Articulation
6. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Texture
Imitation
Inverted Pedal
Diminished
7. 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.
Pedal Point
Timbre
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
ASTA
8. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Harmonic Minor Scale
Whole Tone Scale
Note that is transposing figured around
Alto Clef
9. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Mixolydian
A instruments
Bennet Reimer
Pull off
10. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Arco
Rhythmic Imitation
Melodic Minor Scale
5
11. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Bennet Reimer
Rubato
Alberti Bass
12. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Accent
Texture
Unrelated Chord
Coda
13. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
Alto Clef
Five finger exercise
Whole Tone Scale
14. C- C
Leading Note
Ionian
Primary Triads
Binary form
15. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
AOSA
Phrygian
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Hammer on
16. An annual budget is provided for the replacement of school - owned instruments that is equivalent to at least ______ of the current replacement value of the total inventory.
5%
Mediant
Major Scale Semitones
Programme Music
17. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Accent
Appoggiaturas
Tempo
B flat Bass Transposition
18. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Supertonic
Motif
French Horn Transposition
Hammer on
19. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Bassoon
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Dorian Mode
20. How high or low a note is.
Pitch
Rhythm
8
Contrary motion
21. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Pedal Point
Hammer on
Irregular rhythm
Melody
22. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
ASTA
Bye - tones
Inverted Pedal
Relative (Major/Minor)
23. Middle C
Rhythm
Arco
Note that is transposing figured around
B flat instruments
24. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Contrary motion
Canon
Fragmentation
Extension
25. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Phrase
Pulse
Notes of Anticipation
Syncopation
26. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Fragmentation
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Cross Rhythm
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
27. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale
Binary form
Extension
28. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Rhythm
Ternary Form
45
Concert pitch
29. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Inversions of chords
Dissonance
45
Real Sequence
30. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Concert pitch
Submediant
Five finger exercise
31. Distance between any two notes
Arco
Interval
Tonality
Development
32. 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.
Bennet Reimer
Phrase
B flat instruments
Canon
33. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Dissonance
Riff
Bennet Reimer
Real Sequence
34. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Interrupted Cadence
Cross Rhythm
Pitch
Instruments that transpose at the octave
35. Alto and tenor clefs
Dorian Mode
C Clefs
ABA
Leading Note
36. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Accidentals
Kodaly
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
37. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Melody
Hocket
ASCAP
Whole Tone Scale
38. A- A
Aeolian
Ionian
Articulation
Appoggiaturas
39. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Harmonic
Plagal Cadence
Submediant
40. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Motif
Pull off
Tenor Clef
Leading Note
41. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
ACDA
42. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Pulse
Inversions of chords
Tonality
Syncopation
43. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Melodic Minor Scale
Rondo Form
Antiphonal
44. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Alto Clef
Monophonic
Cadence
Dalcroze
45. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Sequence
Pulse
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Blues
46. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Fragmentation
Dominant
Comenius
Friedrich Froebel
47. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Five finger exercise
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Accent
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
48. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Rubato
Unrelated Chord
Stretto
Imitation
49. Sounds a minor third higher.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Dorian Mode
Rhythmic displacement
Dominant
50. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
5%
Kodaly
Ternary Form
8