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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Plagal Cadence
Inversion
Harmonic Sequences
Homophonic
2. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
Imperfect Cadence
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Accompaniment
3. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Bassoon
Retrograde
Five finger exercise
Harmonic
4. Natural Pitch
Accented Passing Note
Locrian
Natural Minor Scale
Anacrusis
5. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Kodaly
B flat instruments
Dissonance
Melody
6. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Contrary motion
Harmonic
Anacrusis
Imitation
7. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Mediant
French Horn Transposition
Countermelody
C Clefs
8. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Melodic Sequences
Antiphonal
Kodaly Method
Perfect Cadence
9. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Ostinato
Programme Music
Whole Tone Scale
10. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Polyphonic
Arpeggio
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Chromatic Scale
11. Distance between any two notes
Cadence
Interval
Melodic Minor Scale
Enharmonic
12. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Syncopation
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Rubato
Dalcroze
13. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Coda
MM
Texture
Passing Notes
14. 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.
Fanfare
Appoggiaturas
Arco
ASTA
15. D- D
Syncopation
Fanfare
Dorian Mode
Repetition
16. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Kodaly Method
Augmentation
Figured Bass
Dalcroze
17. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
8
Cadence
Note that is transposing figured around
Tonality
18. 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.
Motif
Sequence
Countermelody
Tenor
19. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Pitch
Lydian
Real Sequence
20. Combination of aggreable tones.
Consonance
Inverted Pedal
Natural Minor Scale
Imitation
21. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Mixolydian
Leading Note
C instruments
AOSA
22. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Contrary motion
Major Scale Semitones
AOSA
23. American String Teachers Assocation
Hocket
ASTA
Tenor
Mediant
24. Occur in all parts.
Introduction
Rhythmic Imitation
AOSA
Harmonic Sequences
25. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Rondo Form
Pull off
Hammer on
8
26. Another word for key.
Subdominant
Rhythmic Imitation
Programme Music
Tonality
27. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
Polyphonic
Imitation by Inversion
Lydian
28. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Dorian Mode
29. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Note that is transposing figured around
B flat instruments
Rhythmic Imitation
Accent
30. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Ternary Form
Extension
Diminution
31. Highest natural adult male voice
Reasons for Transposing
Tenor
Kodaly
Accidentals
32. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Bassoon
5
33. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Register
Timbre
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Syncopation
34. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Polyphonic
Five finger exercise
Microtone
Cadence
35. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Pentatonic Scale
Sequence
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Diminished
36. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Accented Passing Note
Whole Tone Scale
Concert pitch
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
37. F- F
Interrupted Cadence
Submediant
Lydian
Tenor
38. General music is required until grade...
Harmonic Sequences
Interrupted Cadence
Diminished
8
39. I - IV - V
Primary Triads
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Polyphonic
Riff
40. Glissando in jazz music
Leading Note
Motif
Ionian
Smear
41. 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.
Phrase
5%
Binary form
Syncopation
42. 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.
Register
Binary form
Inversion
Enharmonic
43. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Countermelody
Subdominant
Cross Rhythm
Tonic
44. American Choral Director's Association
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Kodaly Method
ACDA
Plagal Cadence
45. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Rhythmic displacement
Mediant
Introduction
Antiphonal
46. Without key center
Rhythm
Accidentals
Plagal Cadence
Atonal
47. 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.
Figured Bass
Primary Triads
Chromatic Scale
Whole Tone Scale
48. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Anacrusis
Auxiliary Notes
Unrelated Chord
49. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Cor Anglais Transposition
Passing Notes
Accented Passing Note
Natural Minor Scale
50. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Melody
Aeolian
Coda
Pentatonic Scale