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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Blues
Bare chord
ACDA
Rhythmic Imitation
2. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
A instruments
Melodic Sequences
Natural Minor Scale
Harmonic
3. G- G
Concert pitch
Mixolydian
Accent
Sequence
4. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Tonal Sequence
Rhythm
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
5. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Cross Rhythm
Kodaly
Blues
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
6. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Aeolian
Imitation
Rhythm
Chromatic
7. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Syncopation
Unrelated Chord
AOSA
Dorian Mode
8. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Harmonic Sequences
Relative (Major/Minor)
Harmonic
Diminution
9. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Rondo Form
Dominant
AOSA
Antiphonal
10. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Blues
Arpeggio
Note that is transposing figured around
Five finger exercise
11. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Passing Notes
Harmonic Minor Scale
Consonance
Rhythmic displacement
12. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
French Horn Transposition
Binary form
Stretto
B flat instruments
13. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Inverted Pedal
Auxiliary Notes
Repetition
Whole Tone Scale
14. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Dissonance
Natural Minor Scale
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Tenor Clef
15. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Microtone
Atonal
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
45
16. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Ionian
MM
Harmony
17. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Pedal Point
Countermelody
B flat instruments
AOSA
18. IV - I
Atonal
Plagal Cadence
Lydian
Pentatonic Scale
19. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
Melodic Sequences
JRME
ACDA
20. American Bandmaster's Association
Phrygian
ABA
Phrase
Relative (Major/Minor)
21. Tone color or quality of sound.
Portamento
Bassoon
Tenor Clef
Timbre
22. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Concert pitch
Passing Notes
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Homophonic
23. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
45
Irregular rhythm
Polytonality
Coda
24. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Tonic
Binary form
B flat Bass Transposition
Antiphonal
25. How high or low a note is.
Hocket
Natural Minor Scale
Inverted Pedal
Pitch
26. Sounds a minor third higher.
45
Fanfare
Pulse
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
27. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Polyphonic
Auxiliary Notes
Lydian
ABA
28. E- E
Enharmonic
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Phrygian
Pull off
29. Organization of musical notes in time.
Rhythm
Submediant
Lydian
Diminished
30. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Imperfect Cadence
Accented Passing Note
Tonal Sequence
Whole Tone Scale
31. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Chromatic
Melodic Minor Scale
Arco
Smear
32. General music is required until grade...
Smear
Canon
8
Comenius
33. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Melodic Minor Scale
Alto Clef
Subdominant
34. Combination of aggreable tones.
Cadence
Consonance
Aeolian
Ostinato
35. Without key center
Melodic Sequences
Atonal
Texture
Diminished
36. 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.
Melodic Sequences
5%
B flat instruments
AOSA
37. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Riff
Tenor
Augmentation
Consonance
38. A- A
Locrian
Aeolian
Pentatonic Scale
Perfect Cadence
39. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Rubato
Unrelated Chord
40. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Extension
Leading Note
Absolute Music
Friedrich Froebel
41. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Fanfare
Consonance
Programme Music
Major Scale Semitones
42. V - I
Note that is transposing figured around
Fanfare
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Perfect Cadence
43. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Anacrusis
Perfect Cadence
Submediant
Bassoon
44. B- B
Imitation
Locrian
Coda
ACDA
45. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Irregular rhythm
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
ASCAP
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
46. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Perfect Cadence
8
Extension
Notes of Anticipation
47. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Ostinato
Kodaly Method
Pulse
Atonal
48. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Plagal Cadence
Phrase
Bye - tones
Chromatic
49. Glissando in jazz music
Programme Music
Inversion
Unrelated Chord
Smear
50. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Articulation
Mediant
Retrograde
Comenius