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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






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






4. IV - I






5. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






6. A- A






7. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






8. Chord without a third.






9. 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.






10. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






11. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






12. Second tone in a major/minor scale






13. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






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






15. G- G






16. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






17. How high or low a note is.






18. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






19. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






20. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






21. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






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






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






24. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






25. An unessential note that falls on the beat






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






27. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






28. American Choral Director's Association






29. F- F






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






31. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






32. V - I






33. Made larger.






34. D- D






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






36. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






37. Consists entirely of whole steps.






38. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






39. Scale made entirely of semitones.






40. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






41. Distance between any two notes






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)






46. B- B






47. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






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






49. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






50. American Bandmaster's Association