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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Dissonance
Unrelated Chord
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Accented Passing Note
2. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Portamento
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Atonal
Relative (Major/Minor)
3. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Real Sequence
JRME
Dissonance
Polyphonic
4. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Portamento
Stretto
Chromatic Scale
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
5. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C Clefs
Unrelated Chord
C instruments
Supertonic
6. G- G
Semitone
Mixolydian
Binary form
Diminished
7. Distance between any two notes
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Rubato
Pull off
Interval
8. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Tonic Minor
Chromatic Scale
Sequence
Accidentals
9. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Semitone
C Clefs
45
ACDA
10. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Tonic Minor
Arpeggio
Notes of Anticipation
Ostinato
11. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Mediant
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Augmented
Diminished
12. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Cor Anglais Transposition
Tenor Clef
Phrase
Concert pitch
13. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Arpeggio
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Pull off
Melodic Minor Scale
14. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Polyphonic
French Horn Transposition
Figured Bass
Natural Minor Scale
15. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Subdominant
Melodic Sequences
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Harmonic Sequences
16. Middle C
Friedrich Froebel
ASCAP
Submediant
Note that is transposing figured around
17. Chord without a third.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Bare chord
Arpeggio
Programme Music
18. 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.
5
MM
Fanfare
AOSA
19. Without key center
Arco
Atonal
Cross Rhythm
Unrelated Chord
20. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Arco
Pedal Point
Cor Anglais Transposition
Register
21. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Accompaniment
Reasons for Transposing
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Submediant
22. Journal of Research for Music Education
Comenius
Contrary motion
JRME
Chromatic
23. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Tonal Sequence
Riff
Contrary motion
French Horn Transposition
24. Interval of less than a semitone
Arco
Texture
Microtone
Tonic
25. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Aeolian
Lydian
Cadence
5
26. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Pentatonic Scale
Antiphonal
Ostinato
Hocket
27. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Major Scale Semitones
Harmony
Motif
Melody
28. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Concert pitch
Dalcroze
C Clefs
Note that is transposing figured around
29. Glissando in vocal music
45
Portamento
Major Scale Semitones
ASCAP
30. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Concert pitch
JRME
Sequence
Accidentals
31. C- C
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Ionian
32. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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33. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Imitation
Primary Triads
AOSA
Harmonic Minor Scale
34. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Fragmentation
45
Inversion
Alto Clef
35. V - vi
Rondo Form
Tenor
Interrupted Cadence
JRME
36. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
Submediant
B flat instruments
Chromatic Scale
37. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Accented Passing Note
Friedrich Froebel
Phrygian
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
38. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Rondo Form
Unrelated Chord
Auxiliary Notes
Monophonic
39. American Choral Director's Association
ACDA
Imitation by Inversion
Concert pitch
Five finger exercise
40. Another word for key.
C Clefs
Binary form
Blues
Tonality
41. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Supertonic
Countermelody
ASCAP
Development
42. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Sequence
Rhythmic Imitation
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
French Horn Transposition
43. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Major Scale Semitones
Monophonic
Harmonic Sequences
44. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Timbre
Fanfare
Development
Augmentation
45. F- F
Lydian
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Cor Anglais Transposition
46. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
8
Cor Anglais Transposition
Submediant
Dissonance
47. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Dissonance
Auxiliary Notes
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Repetition
48. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Pulse
Inversions of chords
Alberti Bass
Fragmentation
49. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Concert pitch
Countermelody
Leading Note
Diminution
50. Sounds a minor third higher.
Pulse
Lydian
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Diminution