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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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1. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Tempo
Monophonic
Aeolian
Major Scale Semitones
2. Tone color or quality of sound.
Glissando
Absolute Music
Timbre
5
3. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Dominant
MM
Concert pitch
Cor Anglais Transposition
4. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Harmonic
Unrelated Chord
Contrary motion
Phrygian
5. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Concert pitch
Tonic Minor
Harmonic Minor Scale
Comenius
6. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Dominant
Ionian
Fragmentation
7. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Enharmonic
Comenius
Rubato
Tonality
8. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Stretto
Timbre
Accidentals
Inverted Pedal
9. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Rhythmic Imitation
Portamento
Real Sequence
Countermelody
10. How high or low a note is.
Pitch
Perfect Cadence
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Semitone
11. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Harmonic Minor Scale
JRME
Harmony
Canon
12. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Major Scale Semitones
Contrary motion
Rhythmic displacement
Supertonic
13. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
B flat instruments
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Cadence
Interrupted Cadence
14. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Bye - tones
Arpeggio
Melody
Lydian
15. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Polyphonic
Rhythmic displacement
Subdominant
8
16. Sounds a minor third higher.
Submediant
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Primary Triads
Harmonic
17. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Alberti Bass
Tonality
C instruments
18. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Enharmonic
Countermelody
Mixolydian
Accent
19. 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.
Pentatonic Scale
Binary form
Melodic Minor Scale
Rubato
20. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Augmentation
Relative (Major/Minor)
Pulse
Pedal Point
21. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Rhythmic Imitation
Dominant
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Syncopation
22. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
5
Leading Note
Fragmentation
A instruments
23. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Sequence
Mixolydian
Bye - tones
Passing Notes
24. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Development
Bennet Reimer
Real Sequence
Microtone
25. American String Teachers Assocation
Mixolydian
Comenius
ASTA
AOSA
26. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Appoggiaturas
Tempo
27. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Mixolydian
Auxiliary Notes
Submediant
28. Organization of musical notes in time.
Rhythm
Aeolian
Accompaniment
Accidentals
29. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Diminished
Fragmentation
Ostinato
Pitch
30. Glissando in vocal music
Rubato
Portamento
Semitone
Rondo Form
31. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Coda
Aeolian
Imperfect Cadence
Arco
32. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
ACDA
Cadence
Riff
B flat Bass Transposition
33. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
Cross Rhythm
Kodaly
Tenor Clef
34. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Canon
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Dalcroze
Notes of Anticipation
35. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Tonality
B flat instruments
Motif
Harmony
36. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Phrygian
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Accompaniment
8
37. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Dissonance
Relative (Major/Minor)
B flat instruments
Programme Music
38. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Cross Rhythm
Monophonic
Texture
Imitation
39. I - V ii - V IV - V
Glissando
Auxiliary Notes
Imperfect Cadence
Lydian
40. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Harmonic
Notes of Anticipation
Bye - tones
Polytonality
41. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Locrian
Imitation
Leading Note
Accented Passing Note
42. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Comenius
Irregular rhythm
Rhythmic displacement
Tenor
43. 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.
Ternary Form
5%
Cadence
Rhythmic displacement
44. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Canon
Leading Note
Augmentation
Appoggiaturas
45. V - I
Tonal Sequence
Perfect Cadence
ASCAP
Supertonic
46. Interval of less than a semitone
C instruments
Timbre
Microtone
ACDA
47. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Arco
Unrelated Chord
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
48. 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.
Reasons for Transposing
Phrase
Rhythmic Imitation
Tonic Minor
49. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Major Scale Semitones
Supertonic
Chromatic
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
50. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Tonic Minor
Kodaly
French Horn Transposition
Accented Passing Note