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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Dissonance
Rhythm
Submediant
ASTA
2. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
Inversion
Augmented
Harmony
3. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
B flat instruments
Unrelated Chord
Mixolydian
4. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Relative (Major/Minor)
5%
Antiphonal
Bassoon
5. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Chromatic
Figured Bass
Rhythmic displacement
JRME
6. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
ASTA
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Tonic
B flat instruments
7. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Countermelody
Blues
Kodaly
Cor Anglais Transposition
8. Glissando in jazz music
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Note that is transposing figured around
Melodic Sequences
Smear
9. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Ternary Form
B flat instruments
Cadence
ASTA
10. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Harmony
Stretto
Augmented
Melodic Minor Scale
11. 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.
Lydian
ACDA
Pedal Point
5
12. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Pedal Point
Canon
Appoggiaturas
Passing Notes
13. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Diminution
Sequence
Bye - tones
Arco
14. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
Dorian Mode
Binary form
Harmonic Sequences
15. Natural Pitch
Inversions of chords
Smear
Natural Minor Scale
Motif
16. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
B flat Bass Transposition
Subdominant
Countermelody
17. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Inversions of chords
Ostinato
Leading Note
Augmented
18. American Choral Director's Association
Passing Notes
Interval
Augmentation
ACDA
19. Without key center
Syncopation
Diminution
Atonal
Diminished
20. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
C instruments
Leading Note
Imitation by Inversion
Semitone
21. Interval of less than a semitone
Homophonic
Microtone
Pitch
Leading Note
22. 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.
Binary form
Semitone
Harmonic
Inverted Pedal
23. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Inverted Pedal
Development
Pull off
Harmonic Minor Scale
24. Second tone in a major/minor scale
8
Supertonic
Smear
Retrograde
25. D- D
Countermelody
Bye - tones
Alto Clef
Dorian Mode
26. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
Melodic Sequences
Dominant
Monophonic
27. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Stretto
Aeolian
Bye - tones
Alberti Bass
28. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Pulse
Tonal Sequence
Hocket
Riff
29. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Mixolydian
Accented Passing Note
Alto Clef
B flat instruments
30. C- C
Dorian Mode
Tonic
Bare chord
Ionian
31. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Absolute Music
A instruments
Register
Articulation
32. Made larger.
Augmented
5%
Development
Pulse
33. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
5
Pulse
Ostinato
Lydian
34. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
ASCAP
Portamento
Fragmentation
35. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Subdominant
Canon
Dalcroze
Lydian
36. Tone color or quality of sound.
Semitone
Harmony
Timbre
Rhythmic Imitation
37. G- G
Accent
Unrelated Chord
Harmonic
Mixolydian
38. 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.
C Clefs
Reasons for Transposing
Glissando
Polytonality
39. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Homophonic
Canon
Chromatic
40. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
Ostinato
Diminished
Harmonic Minor Scale
41. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Ostinato
Notes of Anticipation
B flat instruments
Tempo
42. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
AOSA
Appoggiaturas
Primary Triads
C instruments
43. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Passing Notes
Friedrich Froebel
Accidentals
44. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
B flat Bass Transposition
Introduction
Ostinato
45. Occur in all parts.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Major Scale Semitones
Harmonic Sequences
Augmented
46. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Monophonic
Enharmonic
45
Inverted Pedal
47. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Relative (Major/Minor)
Microtone
Leading Note
Syncopation
48. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Arpeggio
Augmentation
Antiphonal
5
49. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Introduction
Accent
Cross Rhythm
5
50. V - I
Perfect Cadence
C instruments
Countermelody
Imitation