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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. C- C






2. Occur in all parts.






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






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






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






6. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






7. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






8. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






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






10. Made smaller.






11. 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.






12. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






13. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






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






15. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






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






17. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






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






19. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






20. Another word for key.






21. I - IV - V






22. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.






23. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






24. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






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






26. Background support for a melody.






27. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






28. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






29. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






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






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

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32. Maelzel's Metronome






33. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






34. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






35. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






36. Between 3/4 and 7/8






37. Interval of less than a semitone






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






39. Highest natural adult male voice






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






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






42. Third tone in a major or minor scale






43. Glissando in jazz music






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






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






46. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






47. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






48. Consists entirely of whole steps.






49. 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.






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