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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






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






4. Natural Pitch






5. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






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






7. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






8. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






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






10. Scale made entirely of semitones.






11. Distance between any two notes






12. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






14. 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.






15. D- D






16. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






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






18. 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.






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






20. Combination of aggreable tones.






21. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






22. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






23. American String Teachers Assocation






24. Occur in all parts.






25. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






26. Another word for key.






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






28. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






29. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.






30. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






31. Highest natural adult male voice






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






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






34. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






35. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






36. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






37. F- F






38. General music is required until grade...






39. I - IV - V






40. Glissando in jazz music






41. An annual budget is provided for the replacement of school - owned instruments that is equivalent to at least ______ of the current replacement value of the total inventory.






42. 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.






43. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






44. American Choral Director's Association






45. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






46. Without key center






47. Used by composers in the Baroque period. Numbers underneath the bass line told the performer which chords to play. The bass part was called the continuo. Each number represents an interval between the bass and the note to be supplied.






48. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






49. An unessential note that falls on the beat






50. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.