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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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performing-arts
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1. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Dorian Mode
Repetition
Chromatic
Imitation by Inversion
2. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Microtone
Dominant
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Rhythm
3. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
Absolute Music
Texture
Imperfect Cadence
4. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
Perfect Cadence
Tempo
Texture
5. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Imitation
Harmonic Minor Scale
Reasons for Transposing
Timbre
6. Another word for key.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Tonality
Rubato
Instruments that transpose at the octave
7. Sounds a minor third higher.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
45
Pentatonic Scale
Inverted Pedal
8. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Microtone
AOSA
Mediant
Tenor Clef
9. Journal of Research for Music Education
Fanfare
JRME
Augmentation
Relative (Major/Minor)
10. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Perfect Cadence
Bye - tones
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Harmony
11. IV - I
Accented Passing Note
Five finger exercise
Absolute Music
Plagal Cadence
12. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
JRME
Hammer on
Monophonic
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
13. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
ASTA
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Melodic Minor Scale
14. E- E
Binary form
Tenor
Passing Notes
Phrygian
15. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Rhythmic displacement
Retrograde
Rhythm
Rhythmic Imitation
16. 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.
Glissando
Canon
Accidentals
Sequence
17. Background support for a melody.
Imitation
Accompaniment
Countermelody
Texture
18. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Imitation by Inversion
Fanfare
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Pentatonic Scale
19. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Friedrich Froebel
Kodaly
Irregular rhythm
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
20. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Leading Note
Augmented
Dominant
Antiphonal
21. Sounds minor seventh higher.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Rhythmic Imitation
Notes of Anticipation
Instruments that transpose at the octave
22. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Countermelody
MM
Arpeggio
Imperfect Cadence
23. American Choral Director's Association
Concert pitch
Phrygian
Stretto
ACDA
24. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Pull off
Subdominant
Accented Passing Note
Primary Triads
25. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.
Alberti Bass
Kodaly
Concert pitch
Imitation by Inversion
26. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Accent
Melodic Minor Scale
27. 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.
B flat instruments
Mediant
Motif
Diminution
28. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Tonal Sequence
Major Scale Semitones
Rubato
Accented Passing Note
29. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Programme Music
Homophonic
Accented Passing Note
Articulation
30. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Natural Minor Scale
Polytonality
45
Rondo Form
31. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Imitation by Inversion
Appoggiaturas
Accented Passing Note
32. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
MM
ASCAP
Kodaly
45
33. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Retrograde
C Clefs
Harmonic Sequences
Ternary Form
34. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Inversion
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Passing Notes
Contrary motion
35. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
Binary form
Dominant
Homophonic
36. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Passing Notes
Lydian
Cadence
Augmentation
37. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Accent
45
B flat instruments
Fanfare
38. D- D
Tenor
ASTA
Harmonic Minor Scale
Dorian Mode
39. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Pedal Point
Tonic Minor
40. 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.
Fanfare
Portamento
Kodaly
Cross Rhythm
41. Combination of aggreable tones.
Notes of Anticipation
Consonance
Perfect Cadence
Imperfect Cadence
42. Maelzel's Metronome
Appoggiaturas
Reasons for Transposing
Tonal Sequence
MM
43. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Register
Rhythmic Imitation
Kodaly
44. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
French Horn Transposition
Tonic Minor
C Clefs
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
45. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Syncopation
Real Sequence
French Horn Transposition
5%
46. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Appoggiaturas
MM
Pulse
Semitone
47. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Enharmonic
Cross Rhythm
Major Scale Semitones
Diminution
48. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
Pull off
Microtone
Subdominant
49. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Bare chord
Pitch
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Supertonic
50. 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.
C Clefs
Alto Clef
Rubato
Inverted Pedal