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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






2. V - vi






3. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






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






5. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line






6. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.






7. American Choral Director's Association






8. Highest natural adult male voice






9. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






10. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






11. Another word for key.






12. Third tone in a major or minor scale






13. Sounds a minor third higher.






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






15. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






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






17. Distance between any two notes






18. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






19. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






20. 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.






21. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






22. 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.






23. How high or low a note is.






24. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






25. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






26. Sounds minor seventh higher.






27. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






28. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






29. Middle C






30. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






31. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






32. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






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






34. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






35. Made larger.






36. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






37. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






38. IV - I






39. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






40. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






41. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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42. Pick up bar.






43. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






44. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






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






46. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






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






48. E- E






49. I - V ii - V IV - V






50. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.