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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






2. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






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






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






6. 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.






7. I - IV - V






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






9. Consists entirely of whole steps.






10. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






11. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






12. Without key center






13. American String Teachers Assocation






14. Natural Pitch






15. Another word for key.






16. D- D






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






18. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






19. 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.






20. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






21. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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

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






24. How high or low a note is.






25. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






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






27. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






28. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






29. A- A






30. Glissando in vocal music






31. Alto and tenor clefs






32. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






33. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






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






35. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






36. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






37. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.






38. Glissando in jazz music






39. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






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






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






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






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






44. Highest natural adult male voice






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






46. Tone color or quality of sound.






47. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






48. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






49. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






50. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones