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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Irregular rhythm
Natural Minor Scale
Absolute Music
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
2. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
A instruments
Extension
Imitation by Inversion
3. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Extension
Monophonic
Unrelated Chord
4. 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.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Fragmentation
Fanfare
Appoggiaturas
5. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Inverted Pedal
Supertonic
Cadence
Friedrich Froebel
6. 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.
Auxiliary Notes
Irregular rhythm
Pedal Point
Plagal Cadence
7. I - IV - V
Ostinato
Tenor
Primary Triads
Hocket
8. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Articulation
Melody
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Melodic Sequences
9. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Whole Tone Scale
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Tenor Clef
Introduction
10. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Imitation
Rondo Form
ABA
Timbre
11. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Appoggiaturas
Harmonic
Harmony
Note that is transposing figured around
12. Without key center
Relative (Major/Minor)
Atonal
Concert pitch
Primary Triads
13. American String Teachers Assocation
Coda
ASTA
Hocket
Hammer on
14. Natural Pitch
Natural Minor Scale
ACDA
Leading Note
Appoggiaturas
15. Another word for key.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Tonality
Imitation
Locrian
16. D- D
Auxiliary Notes
Dorian Mode
Imitation
Polyphonic
17. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Inverted Pedal
Sequence
Semitone
Unrelated Chord
18. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Alberti Bass
Melodic Minor Scale
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Syncopation
19. 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
Unrelated Chord
Imitation
Tenor Clef
20. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Unrelated Chord
Semitone
Programme Music
Rhythmic Imitation
21. Scale made entirely of semitones.
B flat Bass Transposition
Tonality
Melodic Minor Scale
Chromatic Scale
22. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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23. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Fanfare
AOSA
Register
B flat instruments
24. How high or low a note is.
Pitch
Plagal Cadence
Polyphonic
Binary form
25. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Coda
Ternary Form
Tenor
C Clefs
26. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Timbre
Bennet Reimer
Pulse
Extension
27. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Augmentation
Countermelody
Tempo
Inversion
28. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Pitch
Pentatonic Scale
Imitation by Inversion
Augmented
29. A- A
Tenor Clef
Aeolian
Microtone
Pulse
30. Glissando in vocal music
Countermelody
Portamento
Inverted Pedal
Real Sequence
31. Alto and tenor clefs
Accompaniment
C Clefs
Imitation by Inversion
Harmonic Minor Scale
32. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Canon
Rhythm
Register
Dorian Mode
33. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
French Horn Transposition
Inversions of chords
Pull off
Tempo
34. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Dissonance
Binary form
5
Tenor
35. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Cross Rhythm
Tempo
Imitation
Monophonic
36. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Syncopation
Harmonic
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Ostinato
37. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Monophonic
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Fragmentation
Glissando
38. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Interval
Kodaly Method
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
39. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
A instruments
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Pull off
40. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
B flat instruments
Register
Tenor
Polyphonic
41. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Melody
Harmonic Sequences
Inverted Pedal
Retrograde
42. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Syncopation
Passing Notes
Hocket
Pentatonic Scale
43. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Irregular rhythm
B flat instruments
Ionian
C Clefs
44. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Imperfect Cadence
MM
45. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Articulation
Unrelated Chord
French Horn Transposition
Rhythmic displacement
46. Tone color or quality of sound.
Whole Tone Scale
Timbre
Enharmonic
Rhythmic Imitation
47. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Introduction
Fragmentation
Tonal Sequence
Monophonic
48. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Tonal Sequence
Note that is transposing figured around
Homophonic
49. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Dissonance
Register
Submediant
Mixolydian
50. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Arco
Friedrich Froebel
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Texture