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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Smear
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Dorian Mode
Microtone
2. How high or low a note is.
Portamento
Bye - tones
Pitch
Major Scale Semitones
3. Distance between any two notes
Harmonic Minor Scale
Interval
Articulation
Pedal Point
4. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Irregular rhythm
Kodaly Method
Inversion
Register
5. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
JRME
Bye - tones
Enharmonic
Passing Notes
6. General music is required until grade...
8
Bennet Reimer
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Accompaniment
7. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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8. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Kodaly Method
Bassoon
Mediant
Plagal Cadence
9. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Real Sequence
Portamento
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
10. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Coda
Semitone
MM
11. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
B flat instruments
Natural Minor Scale
MM
Fragmentation
12. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Arpeggio
Real Sequence
Alto Clef
MM
13. Glissando in jazz music
JRME
Smear
Pulse
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
14. Tone color or quality of sound.
JRME
Perfect Cadence
Timbre
Dalcroze
15. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Aeolian
Register
Dorian Mode
Syncopation
16. V - I
Phrygian
Fragmentation
Harmonic
Perfect Cadence
17. D- D
Alberti Bass
Rhythm
Dorian Mode
Inversion
18. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Ionian
Antiphonal
Accented Passing Note
19. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
Alberti Bass
Retrograde
Chromatic Scale
20. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Tonal Sequence
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Melodic Sequences
Submediant
21. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Cross Rhythm
Canon
Melody
Homophonic
22. Background support for a melody.
ASCAP
Accompaniment
Canon
5
23. 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.
Friedrich Froebel
Microtone
Figured Bass
Bare chord
24. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
A instruments
Pentatonic Scale
Cross Rhythm
Auxiliary Notes
25. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Tenor Clef
Extension
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Programme Music
26. Middle C
Fragmentation
Phrygian
Harmony
Note that is transposing figured around
27. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Bare chord
Rubato
28. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Pentatonic Scale
Chromatic
45
Melodic Minor Scale
29. Sounds a minor third higher.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Irregular rhythm
Ionian
30. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Accented Passing Note
Appoggiaturas
Pitch
Binary form
31. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Inversions of chords
Accent
Tenor
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
32. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Bennet Reimer
Retrograde
Melodic Minor Scale
Polytonality
33. Glissando in vocal music
Tenor
Portamento
Inverted Pedal
Sequence
34. C- C
Augmented
Rhythmic displacement
Ionian
Fragmentation
35. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Diminished
Absolute Music
Alto Clef
Accidentals
36. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Imitation by Inversion
Pull off
Contrary motion
Inversions of chords
37. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
Plagal Cadence
Reasons for Transposing
Harmony
38. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Note that is transposing figured around
Anacrusis
B flat Bass Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
39. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Cadence
Dorian Mode
40. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Portamento
Motif
Blues
Anacrusis
41. 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.
Glissando
Polytonality
Bassoon
Harmonic Minor Scale
42. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Introduction
Development
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Notes of Anticipation
43. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.
Notes of Anticipation
Pentatonic Scale
Rubato
Kodaly
44. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Supertonic
Diminished
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Bare chord
45. Occur in all parts.
Rubato
Kodaly Method
Portamento
Harmonic Sequences
46. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Dalcroze
Texture
C Clefs
47. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Accented Passing Note
Development
Primary Triads
48. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Homophonic
Subdominant
Friedrich Froebel
Harmonic
49. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Hocket
Glissando
Irregular rhythm
Melody
50. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Texture
Dalcroze
Inversions of chords
Timbre