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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Irregular rhythm
Natural Minor Scale
8
Comenius
2. D- D
Harmonic Minor Scale
Dorian Mode
Pentatonic Scale
Rhythmic displacement
3. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Bare chord
Smear
Repetition
4. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Augmentation
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Development
Repetition
5. 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
Ternary Form
Hammer on
Contrary motion
6. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Tonic
Fragmentation
Kodaly
Rhythmic displacement
7. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Syncopation
Stretto
Hocket
Rhythmic Imitation
8. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Imperfect Cadence
Programme Music
Pull off
Supertonic
9. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Articulation
Passing Notes
Antiphonal
Diminution
10. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Antiphonal
Tenor
Supertonic
Interval
11. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Rubato
Augmentation
Relative (Major/Minor)
Inverted Pedal
12. C- C
Ionian
Countermelody
Texture
B flat instruments
13. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
Articulation
C Clefs
Accompaniment
14. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Microtone
Friedrich Froebel
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Kodaly Method
15. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Sequence
Programme Music
Dissonance
Augmented
16. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Ionian
Cor Anglais Transposition
Introduction
Inversions of chords
17. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Kodaly Method
Atonal
Bye - tones
Major Scale Semitones
18. A- A
B flat instruments
Articulation
ASCAP
Aeolian
19. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Aeolian
ACDA
Anacrusis
Mediant
20. Sounds a minor third higher.
Tonal Sequence
Introduction
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Phrygian
21. V - vi
ASTA
C Clefs
Interrupted Cadence
Unrelated Chord
22. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pulse
Accent
Accidentals
Canon
23. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Harmonic
Rhythmic Imitation
5
Kodaly
24. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
45
Contrary motion
Mediant
Accidentals
25. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
French Horn Transposition
Rhythmic Imitation
Arpeggio
26. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Interrupted Cadence
Rhythmic Imitation
Dissonance
27. Made larger.
Harmonic Sequences
Coda
Phrase
Augmented
28. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Alberti Bass
Homophonic
B flat instruments
Reasons for Transposing
29. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
JRME
Polytonality
Repetition
Syncopation
30. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Polyphonic
Relative (Major/Minor)
Concert pitch
31. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Mixolydian
Melody
French Horn Transposition
Rubato
32. G- G
Mixolydian
Tempo
8
Anacrusis
33. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
45
ASTA
Retrograde
Tonal Sequence
34. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Passing Notes
Lydian
Locrian
35. American Bandmaster's Association
Imitation
Diminution
ABA
Register
36. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Repetition
Rhythmic displacement
Ternary Form
45
37. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Contrary motion
Concert pitch
Tenor
Inverted Pedal
38. American String Teachers Assocation
Accompaniment
ASTA
Harmony
Programme Music
39. Interval of less than a semitone
Accompaniment
Bare chord
Bassoon
Microtone
40. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Bassoon
Interval
Chromatic
Rhythmic Imitation
41. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Coda
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Accented Passing Note
Tonic
42. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Tonality
Pitch
Inversion
ABA
43. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Dominant
Harmonic Sequences
Blues
Kodaly Method
44. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Dissonance
Tenor Clef
Contrary motion
Smear
45. I - IV - V
Primary Triads
French Horn Transposition
Riff
Tonality
46. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Bennet Reimer
Ternary Form
Sequence
Development
47. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
Binary form
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Accented Passing Note
Cor Anglais Transposition
48. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Tempo
Ionian
Irregular rhythm
Major Scale Semitones
49. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Bassoon
Blues
Inversion
Irregular rhythm
50. IV - I
JRME
ABA
Relative (Major/Minor)
Plagal Cadence