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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






2. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






3. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






4. Highest natural adult male voice






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






6. American Choral Director's Association






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






8. 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.






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






10. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






11. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






12. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






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






14. A- A






15. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






16. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






17. Pick up bar.






18. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






19. Without key center






20. V - vi






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






22. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






23. Sounds a minor third higher.






24. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






25. American Bandmaster's Association






26. C- C






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






28. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






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






30. 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.






31. Natural Pitch






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






33. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






34. Maelzel's Metronome






35. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






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






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






38. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






39. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






40. 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.






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






42. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






44. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






45. Consists entirely of whole steps.






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






47. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






48. 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.






49. Occur in all parts.






50. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave