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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Fragmentation
Accented Passing Note
Countermelody
ASTA
2. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Imitation
Arco
Extension
Anacrusis
3. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Inversion
Pedal Point
Tenor Clef
Arpeggio
4. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Notes of Anticipation
C instruments
Pitch
Pedal Point
5. Another word for key.
AOSA
Tonality
Register
Dalcroze
6. 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.
Blues
Arpeggio
B flat instruments
5%
7. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Countermelody
Kodaly
Rubato
8. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Reasons for Transposing
Diminished
Unrelated Chord
Pitch
9. 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.
Rhythm
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Binary form
Harmonic Sequences
10. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Tonic
Real Sequence
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Absolute Music
11. 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.
Motif
A instruments
Fanfare
Articulation
12. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Dissonance
Unrelated Chord
Auxiliary Notes
C Clefs
13. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Harmonic
Kodaly Method
ABA
Relative (Major/Minor)
14. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Unrelated Chord
Chromatic Scale
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Real Sequence
15. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Supertonic
Repetition
Interval
Subdominant
16. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Microtone
Bassoon
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Ostinato
17. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Phrase
Melodic Minor Scale
Appoggiaturas
Blues
18. Made larger.
Pitch
Phrygian
Augmented
Chromatic
19. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Pitch
Figured Bass
B flat instruments
20. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Rhythmic Imitation
B flat instruments
Rhythmic displacement
Harmonic Sequences
21. E- E
Accompaniment
Phrygian
Unrelated Chord
Mixolydian
22. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Fragmentation
French Horn Transposition
Polytonality
Friedrich Froebel
23. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Friedrich Froebel
Syncopation
Tenor Clef
Comenius
24. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
Antiphonal
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Tempo
25. Glissando in jazz music
Concert pitch
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Syncopation
Smear
26. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Real Sequence
B flat instruments
French Horn Transposition
ASTA
27. IV - I
Tonic
AOSA
Plagal Cadence
Tonal Sequence
28. Distance between any two notes
Rhythmic displacement
Polytonality
Interval
Polyphonic
29. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Hammer on
Melodic Sequences
Alto Clef
A instruments
30. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Irregular rhythm
Augmented
Harmonic Minor Scale
Alto Clef
31. 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.
Cross Rhythm
A instruments
Kodaly Method
Figured Bass
32. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Five finger exercise
Timbre
Imperfect Cadence
Imitation
33. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Augmented
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
8
Submediant
34. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
Natural Minor Scale
Rhythmic displacement
Kodaly
35. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
A instruments
Augmented
Accented Passing Note
Accent
36. Without key center
Atonal
Locrian
Bassoon
B flat instruments
37. B- B
Locrian
Pull off
Figured Bass
Hammer on
38. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Melodic Sequences
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Harmony
Semitone
39. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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40. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Bye - tones
Harmonic Sequences
Blues
Contrary motion
41. Maelzel's Metronome
Cadence
MM
Arpeggio
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
42. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Pedal Point
Melody
43. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
8
Whole Tone Scale
Canon
44. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Rhythm
Enharmonic
Tonic Minor
Melody
45. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Pedal Point
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Tonic
Introduction
46. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Rubato
Tonic Minor
Locrian
Microtone
47. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Note that is transposing figured around
Hammer on
Mediant
Pulse
48. Background support for a melody.
B flat Bass Transposition
Accompaniment
Imitation
A instruments
49. 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.
Notes of Anticipation
Kodaly
A instruments
Phrase
50. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Notes of Anticipation
Friedrich Froebel
Rhythmic Imitation
Tonic