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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Riff
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Pulse
Register
2. Without key center
Atonal
Perfect Cadence
Monophonic
Harmonic Minor Scale
3. G- G
B flat Bass Transposition
Mixolydian
Leading Note
French Horn Transposition
4. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Tonic
Semitone
Portamento
Primary Triads
5. I - V ii - V IV - V
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Articulation
Imperfect Cadence
6. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Accented Passing Note
Pitch
Tonality
Cross Rhythm
7. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
C instruments
Homophonic
Canon
Monophonic
8. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Syncopation
Tenor Clef
Development
Harmony
9. Highest natural adult male voice
Perfect Cadence
Fanfare
Tenor
Interval
10. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Absolute Music
Phrygian
Irregular rhythm
Imitation by Inversion
11. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
Perfect Cadence
Dalcroze
MM
12. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Antiphonal
C instruments
Whole Tone Scale
Perfect Cadence
13. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Stretto
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
Ostinato
14. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Locrian
Ternary Form
Melody
Rhythmic Imitation
15. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
ACDA
Real Sequence
Bennet Reimer
Inversion
16. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Accidentals
Reasons for Transposing
Accented Passing Note
Programme Music
17. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
ABA
Pedal Point
Dissonance
18. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Pulse
Locrian
Bennet Reimer
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
19. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Melody
Kodaly
Major Scale Semitones
Arco
20. Combination of aggreable tones.
Rhythm
Inversion
Consonance
Glissando
21. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Pulse
Unrelated Chord
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Auxiliary Notes
22. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Dissonance
Consonance
Concert pitch
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
23. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Lydian
Countermelody
Primary Triads
Whole Tone Scale
24. V - vi
Interval
Interrupted Cadence
Absolute Music
AOSA
25. 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
Notes of Anticipation
Development
Accompaniment
26. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
C Clefs
Development
Dissonance
AOSA
27. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Whole Tone Scale
Supertonic
Notes of Anticipation
Retrograde
28. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.
Motif
Rhythm
Hammer on
Leading Note
29. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Pentatonic Scale
Hammer on
AOSA
Coda
30. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Tonic
Rubato
Bassoon
Irregular rhythm
31. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Anacrusis
Coda
Antiphonal
Binary form
32. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Articulation
Auxiliary Notes
Passing Notes
Antiphonal
33. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
French Horn Transposition
Atonal
Pentatonic Scale
Kodaly
34. Sounds minor seventh higher.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Imitation
Smear
Enharmonic
35. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
Texture
C Clefs
36. Journal of Research for Music Education
B flat instruments
Appoggiaturas
JRME
Rubato
37. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Comenius
Auxiliary Notes
ASCAP
Harmonic Sequences
38. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Binary form
Phrygian
Leading Note
Fanfare
39. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Anacrusis
Alberti Bass
45
Atonal
40. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Stretto
Dalcroze
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Arco
41. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Comenius
Glissando
Pentatonic Scale
Retrograde
42. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
B flat Bass Transposition
Inverted Pedal
Absolute Music
43. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Arpeggio
Register
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
5
44. Chord without a third.
Leading Note
Bare chord
45
Tenor Clef
45. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Rhythm
C Clefs
Pull off
Rondo Form
46. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Rondo Form
JRME
Subdominant
Perfect Cadence
47. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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48. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Pitch
Figured Bass
Cadence
Phrygian
49. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Five finger exercise
Friedrich Froebel
Lydian
Kodaly Method
50. 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.
Ternary Form
Pedal Point
Programme Music
Arco