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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






2. I - V ii - V IV - V






3. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






4. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






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






6. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






7. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






8. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






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






10. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






11. American String Teachers Assocation






12. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






13. General music is required until grade...






14. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






15. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






16. 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.






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






18. An unessential note that falls on the beat






19. Maelzel's Metronome






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






21. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






22. Made smaller.






23. Distance between any two notes






24. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






25. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






26. 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.






27. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






28. American Choral Director's Association






29. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






30. E- E






31. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






32. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






33. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






34. Highest natural adult male voice






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






36. Natural Pitch






37. 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.






38. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






39. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






40. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.






41. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)






42. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






43. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






45. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






46. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






47. Glissando in jazz music






48. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






49. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






50. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.