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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Ternary Form
Hocket
Bassoon
Arpeggio
2. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Repetition
5%
Accent
Reasons for Transposing
3. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Kodaly Method
Rhythmic displacement
Inversion
Inversions of chords
4. Organization of musical notes in time.
Leading Note
Portamento
Rhythm
Imitation by Inversion
5. D- D
Extension
Dorian Mode
Bennet Reimer
Timbre
6. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
Semitone
Notes of Anticipation
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
7. Tone color or quality of sound.
Timbre
Chromatic
Dominant
Antiphonal
8. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Accompaniment
Whole Tone Scale
Reasons for Transposing
Inversion
9. How high or low a note is.
Extension
Portamento
Enharmonic
Pitch
10. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Imitation
Ionian
Extension
Chromatic
11. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Kodaly Method
Pentatonic Scale
Antiphonal
Semitone
12. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Polyphonic
Dissonance
Relative (Major/Minor)
13. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
B flat instruments
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Imperfect Cadence
Accompaniment
14. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Glissando
Absolute Music
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Real Sequence
15. American Choral Director's Association
Canon
ACDA
Alto Clef
Rubato
16. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Inversions of chords
Pulse
Dissonance
Polytonality
17. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Canon
Phrase
Articulation
Pull off
18. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Friedrich Froebel
Tenor Clef
ASTA
19. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Rhythm
Note that is transposing figured around
Tempo
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
20. Sounds a minor third higher.
Kodaly Method
Ternary Form
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Fanfare
21. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
ASCAP
Mixolydian
Introduction
22. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Homophonic
Texture
Notes of Anticipation
5%
23. G- G
Lydian
Mixolydian
Polyphonic
Melody
24. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
Tonality
A instruments
Whole Tone Scale
25. I - IV - V
Submediant
Primary Triads
Comenius
Dominant
26. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Pedal Point
Bennet Reimer
Glissando
27. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Consonance
Tempo
Augmentation
Dalcroze
28. Journal of Research for Music Education
JRME
Mediant
Accompaniment
Pitch
29. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Canon
Friedrich Froebel
Leading Note
Melodic Sequences
30. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
Fanfare
Phrase
Rhythmic Imitation
31. Highest natural adult male voice
Aeolian
Programme Music
45
Tenor
32. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Tonal Sequence
ASCAP
Retrograde
Polyphonic
33. Chord without a third.
Contrary motion
ACDA
Bare chord
Ternary Form
34. Made larger.
Harmonic Sequences
Tenor Clef
Augmented
Fragmentation
35. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Imperfect Cadence
Diminution
Semitone
Melody
36. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Reasons for Transposing
Anacrusis
Imitation by Inversion
C Clefs
37. American String Teachers Assocation
ASTA
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Rhythmic displacement
Harmony
38. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Contrary motion
Accompaniment
MM
Chromatic Scale
39. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Rhythmic Imitation
Rondo Form
Tonal Sequence
Friedrich Froebel
40. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Figured Bass
Dorian Mode
Relative (Major/Minor)
Notes of Anticipation
41. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Monophonic
Bare chord
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Rhythmic Imitation
42. Background support for a melody.
Polytonality
Accented Passing Note
Accompaniment
Stretto
43. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Dissonance
Major Scale Semitones
Reasons for Transposing
Harmonic Sequences
44. Maelzel's Metronome
Tonality
Articulation
Bennet Reimer
MM
45. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Coda
Semitone
Plagal Cadence
46. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Introduction
Primary Triads
Unrelated Chord
Microtone
47. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Portamento
C Clefs
Submediant
Tenor Clef
48. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Glissando
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Kodaly
Dominant
49. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Inverted Pedal
Five finger exercise
Fanfare
Tempo
50. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Passing Notes
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Glissando
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones