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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






2. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






3. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






4. Distance between any two notes






5. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






6. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






7. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






8. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






9. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.






10. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






11. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






12. Pick up bar.






13. B- B






14. 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.






15. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






16. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






17. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






18. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






19. Glissando in jazz music






20. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






21. 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.






22. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






23. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






24. Chord without a third.






25. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






26. Combination of aggreable tones.






27. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






28. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






29. V - vi






30. Alto and tenor clefs






31. Without key center






32. Sounds a minor third higher.






33. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






34. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.






35. F- F






36. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






37. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






38. Organization of musical notes in time.






39. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






40. Made smaller.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






44. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






45. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






46. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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47. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






48. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






49. A- A






50. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.