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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Tone color or quality of sound.






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






3. Interval of less than a semitone






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






5. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






6. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






7. 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.






8. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






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






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






11. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






13. Glissando in vocal music






14. C- C






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. How high or low a note is.






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






22. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






23. Middle C






24. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






25. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






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






27. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






28. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






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






30. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






31. Distance between any two notes






32. Smallest complete unit of musical form containing about as much as can be held in a normal breath. Can be two to eight bars long.






33. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






34. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






35. Alto and tenor clefs






36. Sounds minor seventh higher.






37. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






38. A- A






39. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






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






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






42. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






43. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






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






45. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






46. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






47. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






48. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






49. Sounds a minor third higher.






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