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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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1. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Bennet Reimer
Harmonic Sequences
Microtone
Diminution
2. American String Teachers Assocation
Phrygian
ASTA
Plagal Cadence
B flat instruments
3. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Ostinato
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Notes of Anticipation
Fragmentation
4. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
B flat instruments
Accented Passing Note
Homophonic
Texture
5. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Notes of Anticipation
Smear
Fragmentation
Kodaly
6. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Countermelody
Whole Tone Scale
Fragmentation
Harmonic
7. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Submediant
Atonal
Five finger exercise
8. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Tempo
Repetition
Real Sequence
Auxiliary Notes
9. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Unrelated Chord
Fragmentation
Riff
Anacrusis
10. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Real Sequence
Smear
C Clefs
Homophonic
11. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
Auxiliary Notes
Absolute Music
Repetition
12. Background support for a melody.
Submediant
Coda
Glissando
Accompaniment
13. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Accent
Melodic Sequences
Hammer on
C Clefs
14. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Major Scale Semitones
Rhythmic Imitation
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
5
15. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
Kodaly Method
Leading Note
Alto Clef
16. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Alto Clef
Perfect Cadence
Augmentation
Tenor Clef
17. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Melodic Minor Scale
Mediant
Submediant
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
18. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Arco
Arpeggio
Riff
Tempo
19. 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.
5%
Enharmonic
Homophonic
Pedal Point
20. 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.
5%
Phrase
Hammer on
Rubato
21. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
A instruments
Countermelody
Pedal Point
Polytonality
22. C- C
Polytonality
Rhythmic Imitation
B flat instruments
Ionian
23. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Rhythmic Imitation
Motif
Tenor Clef
Inverted Pedal
24. Made larger.
Chromatic Scale
Augmented
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Ionian
25. Maelzel's Metronome
Inversions of chords
Retrograde
MM
Leading Note
26. 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.
Pedal Point
45
Canon
Rondo Form
27. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Note that is transposing figured around
B flat instruments
Locrian
Harmonic Sequences
28. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Reasons for Transposing
Inversion
Tonic
Coda
29. Sounds a minor third higher.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Mediant
Diminution
30. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Bye - tones
Alto Clef
Fragmentation
Dissonance
31. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Accidentals
Harmonic
Anacrusis
Chromatic Scale
32. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Augmented
Polytonality
Alberti Bass
Timbre
33. A- A
Pull off
ACDA
Appoggiaturas
Aeolian
34. Occur in all parts.
Whole Tone Scale
Melody
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Harmonic Sequences
35. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Real Sequence
Tempo
Phrase
36. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Extension
Tenor Clef
Programme Music
Monophonic
37. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Phrase
Kodaly Method
Leading Note
38. 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.
Motif
8
Rhythmic displacement
Tenor Clef
39. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Harmonic Minor Scale
Inversions of chords
Antiphonal
Diminution
40. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.
Rubato
Accidentals
Ostinato
Cadence
41. V - I
Perfect Cadence
Programme Music
Rhythmic Imitation
Plagal Cadence
42. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Chromatic Scale
Tempo
5
Interrupted Cadence
43. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Pulse
Syncopation
ABA
Rondo Form
44. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Note that is transposing figured around
Irregular rhythm
Unrelated Chord
Lydian
45. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Interrupted Cadence
B flat Bass Transposition
Cadence
Extension
46. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Reasons for Transposing
Accompaniment
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Consonance
47. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Semitone
Cadence
C Clefs
Figured Bass
48. Sounds minor seventh higher.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Comenius
Tonality
Concert pitch
49. Tone color or quality of sound.
Texture
Timbre
Harmonic Sequences
Bare chord
50. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Mediant
Auxiliary Notes
Motif
Accent