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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Imperfect Cadence
Ternary Form
Reasons for Transposing
Inversions of chords
2. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Inversion
Rhythm
B flat instruments
Texture
3. 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.
Fanfare
Irregular rhythm
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
4. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Extension
French Horn Transposition
Inverted Pedal
Harmonic
5. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
Reasons for Transposing
Primary Triads
Pull off
6. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Pull off
Pentatonic Scale
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
ASCAP
7. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
JRME
5%
Antiphonal
8. 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.
Rubato
Countermelody
C Clefs
Melodic Minor Scale
9. American Choral Director's Association
Monophonic
Harmonic Sequences
ACDA
Rondo Form
10. Highest natural adult male voice
Monophonic
Phrygian
Tenor
Locrian
11. Tone color or quality of sound.
Monophonic
Rhythmic Imitation
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Timbre
12. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Accompaniment
45
Pull off
Notes of Anticipation
13. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Melodic Minor Scale
Accented Passing Note
45
Cor Anglais Transposition
14. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Imitation by Inversion
Extension
Arpeggio
Semitone
15. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Real Sequence
Augmented
Submediant
Melody
16. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
C Clefs
Stretto
Mixolydian
Timbre
17. Natural Pitch
5
Register
Natural Minor Scale
Countermelody
18. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Enharmonic
Lydian
B flat instruments
Imperfect Cadence
19. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Plagal Cadence
B flat instruments
Blues
Inversion
20. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Atonal
Alto Clef
Cadence
Dominant
21. Journal of Research for Music Education
JRME
Hocket
Programme Music
Timbre
22. Middle C
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Anacrusis
Note that is transposing figured around
Friedrich Froebel
23. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Enharmonic
Articulation
Kodaly
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
24. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Retrograde
Cor Anglais Transposition
B flat instruments
Real Sequence
25. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Bare chord
Chromatic
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Chromatic Scale
26. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Imitation by Inversion
Riff
Hocket
Dalcroze
27. Another word for key.
Kodaly
Development
Consonance
Tonality
28. Sounds minor seventh higher.
ACDA
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Articulation
5%
29. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
Atonal
Ostinato
Imitation
30. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Polytonality
Tenor Clef
AOSA
Pulse
31. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
AOSA
B flat instruments
A instruments
Five finger exercise
32. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Ionian
Chromatic
Bare chord
Accompaniment
33. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Bare chord
B flat instruments
Harmonic Minor Scale
34. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Bare chord
Imitation
Motif
Pulse
35. General music is required until grade...
8
Note that is transposing figured around
Alberti Bass
Harmonic Sequences
36. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Reasons for Transposing
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Kodaly
Auxiliary Notes
37. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Bassoon
Auxiliary Notes
Phrase
Tonic Minor
38. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Polyphonic
Pull off
Bare chord
Arco
39. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Polytonality
Countermelody
Chromatic
Kodaly
40. Without key center
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Atonal
Phrygian
Appoggiaturas
41. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Enharmonic
Tonal Sequence
Arpeggio
Tonic Minor
42. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Contrary motion
Cadence
Accompaniment
Auxiliary Notes
43. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Articulation
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Cross Rhythm
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
44. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.
Alberti Bass
Extension
Sequence
Articulation
45. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Articulation
MM
Dissonance
Comenius
46. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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47. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
A instruments
Register
Extension
Perfect Cadence
48. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Atonal
Tonal Sequence
45
Syncopation
49. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Imitation
Programme Music
Note that is transposing figured around
Blues
50. V - vi
Interrupted Cadence
Extension
Augmented
Dalcroze