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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Aeolian
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Repetition
Tonic Minor
2. Natural Pitch
Rhythmic displacement
Plagal Cadence
Mediant
Natural Minor Scale
3. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Tonic Minor
8
Sequence
Homophonic
4. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Rhythmic displacement
Tonality
B flat Bass Transposition
Alto Clef
5. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Passing Notes
Chromatic
Inverted Pedal
Comenius
6. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
JRME
Rubato
Augmentation
Ionian
7. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Fragmentation
B flat instruments
Chromatic Scale
Diminution
8. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Homophonic
A instruments
Perfect Cadence
Friedrich Froebel
9. C- C
Mixolydian
Ionian
Diminution
Real Sequence
10. 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.
Pitch
Polyphonic
Alberti Bass
Stretto
11. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Repetition
Programme Music
8
12. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Glissando
Reasons for Transposing
Dalcroze
JRME
13. Without key center
Atonal
Tonality
Programme Music
Lydian
14. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Reasons for Transposing
Appoggiaturas
45
Cor Anglais Transposition
15. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Imitation by Inversion
Development
Augmented
Tenor
16. Glissando in jazz music
Repetition
Tonic Minor
Smear
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
17. Tone color or quality of sound.
Harmonic
Countermelody
Timbre
Mixolydian
18. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Harmonic Minor Scale
Lydian
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Sequence
19. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
C instruments
Pedal Point
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
JRME
20. Organization of musical notes in time.
Imperfect Cadence
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Inversions of chords
Rhythm
21. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Motif
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Polytonality
Cor Anglais Transposition
22. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Timbre
Imperfect Cadence
Aeolian
Melodic Minor Scale
23. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Atonal
Dominant
Timbre
24. Combination of aggreable tones.
ASTA
Consonance
Texture
Fanfare
25. 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.
Binary form
Polyphonic
Pulse
AOSA
26. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Rhythmic Imitation
Primary Triads
AOSA
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
27. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Chromatic
Five finger exercise
Monophonic
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
28. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Whole Tone Scale
Chromatic
Pull off
Absolute Music
29. 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%
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Perfect Cadence
French Horn Transposition
30. Second tone in a major/minor scale
ASCAP
Tonic Minor
Polyphonic
Supertonic
31. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
AOSA
Friedrich Froebel
Pentatonic Scale
Polytonality
32. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Subdominant
Inversion
Development
Pulse
33. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Note that is transposing figured around
French Horn Transposition
Subdominant
Rondo Form
34. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
ASCAP
Ostinato
Polyphonic
35. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Stretto
Primary Triads
Inversions of chords
Tonic Minor
36. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Harmonic Minor Scale
Arco
Friedrich Froebel
37. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Pull off
A instruments
Development
Dalcroze
38. F- F
Accompaniment
Articulation
Leading Note
Lydian
39. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Harmonic Sequences
Register
Alto Clef
Accent
40. Maelzel's Metronome
Diminished
Harmonic Minor Scale
MM
Aeolian
41. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
B flat instruments
AOSA
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Harmonic
42. Alto and tenor clefs
Pentatonic Scale
C Clefs
Melody
Concert pitch
43. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Polyphonic
Coda
Chromatic Scale
Repetition
44. I - V ii - V IV - V
Imperfect Cadence
Melodic Sequences
Register
Inversions of chords
45. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
Semitone
Retrograde
Diminished
46. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Repetition
Polyphonic
Rhythm
Imitation by Inversion
47. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
Imperfect Cadence
B flat instruments
Absolute Music
48. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Rhythmic Imitation
Dissonance
Locrian
C instruments
49. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Pull off
Sequence
Ostinato
C Clefs
50. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Harmonic Sequences
Melodic Sequences
MM
Kodaly Method