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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






2. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






3. Pick up bar.






4. Second tone in a major/minor scale






5. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






6. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.






7. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






8. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






9. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






10. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






11. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






12. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






13. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






14. Smallest complete unit of musical form containing about as much as can be held in a normal breath. Can be two to eight bars long.






15. Made larger.






16. F- F






17. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






18. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






19. Another word for key.






20. Distance between any two notes






21. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






22. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






23. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






24. Third tone in a major or minor scale






25. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






26. Combination of aggreable tones.






27. Glissando in jazz music






28. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






29. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






30. Made smaller.






31. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






32. Between 3/4 and 7/8






33. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






34. C- C






35. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






36. Consists entirely of whole steps.






37. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






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.






39. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






40. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






41. V - I






42. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.






43. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






44. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






45. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






46. Occur in all parts.






47. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






48. Interval of less than a semitone






49. V - vi






50. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.