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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. E- E
Alberti Bass
Figured Bass
Phrygian
Riff
2. Glissando in jazz music
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale
Smear
Auxiliary Notes
3. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Subdominant
Dissonance
Unrelated Chord
Imitation
4. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Extension
Tonal Sequence
Contrary motion
Arpeggio
5. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
Augmented
Melody
Enharmonic
6. 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.
Polyphonic
Pull off
Extension
Rubato
7. Journal of Research for Music Education
JRME
Irregular rhythm
Articulation
Comenius
8. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Melody
C Clefs
Ternary Form
Dalcroze
9. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Alto Clef
Portamento
Perfect Cadence
Pentatonic Scale
10. Organization of musical notes in time.
Rhythm
Consonance
ABA
Imitation
11. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Diminution
B flat instruments
Smear
Whole Tone Scale
12. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Supertonic
B flat Bass Transposition
Accompaniment
13. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Antiphonal
Five finger exercise
Notes of Anticipation
A instruments
14. B- B
Locrian
Harmony
Retrograde
Diminished
15. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Repetition
Figured Bass
5%
Coda
16. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Melodic Sequences
C Clefs
Register
Alberti Bass
17. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Five finger exercise
Natural Minor Scale
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Repetition
18. 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.
Syncopation
Figured Bass
Pentatonic Scale
Melodic Sequences
19. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Blues
Tempo
Sequence
Primary Triads
20. 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
Absolute Music
Tonality
Repetition
21. D- D
B flat instruments
Interval
Rondo Form
Dorian Mode
22. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Unrelated Chord
Rondo Form
Major Scale Semitones
Subdominant
23. Another word for key.
Tonality
Rhythmic displacement
C Clefs
Dominant
24. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Locrian
Chromatic
Tonal Sequence
B flat instruments
25. General music is required until grade...
Chromatic
8
Stretto
Reasons for Transposing
26. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Rondo Form
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Imitation by Inversion
27. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Consonance
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Semitone
28. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Syncopation
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
B flat instruments
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
29. Distance between any two notes
Chromatic
Comenius
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Interval
30. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
5%
Cadence
Arco
Mixolydian
31. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
A instruments
Antiphonal
Melody
32. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
AOSA
Accompaniment
Bennet Reimer
Glissando
33. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Inversions of chords
Bennet Reimer
B flat instruments
ASTA
34. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Rhythmic Imitation
AOSA
Five finger exercise
Passing Notes
35. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Supertonic
Tenor
Relative (Major/Minor)
Accompaniment
36. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Fragmentation
Inversion
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Binary form
37. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Articulation
Polytonality
Absolute Music
Coda
38. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Tonic Minor
Homophonic
Accent
Retrograde
39. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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40. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Rhythmic Imitation
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Five finger exercise
41. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Reasons for Transposing
Accompaniment
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
MM
42. A- A
Rhythmic Imitation
Diminished
Bare chord
Aeolian
43. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Rhythmic Imitation
Articulation
Polytonality
Blues
44. C- C
Ostinato
Ionian
Kodaly Method
Pitch
45. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
Cross Rhythm
Major Scale Semitones
Ternary Form
46. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Diminished
Arco
Stretto
Passing Notes
47. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Rhythmic displacement
Bassoon
Tonic
Relative (Major/Minor)
48. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
Retrograde
C Clefs
Ternary Form
Binary form
49. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Dominant
Accented Passing Note
Reasons for Transposing
50. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Melodic Minor Scale
Atonal
Comenius