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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






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






3. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






4. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






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






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






7. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






8. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






9. D- D






10. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






11. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






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






13. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






14. Without key center






15. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






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






17. American Choral Director's Association






18. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.






19. 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.






20. Glissando in vocal music






21. Third tone in a major or minor scale






22. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






23. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






24. 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.






25. Chord without a third.






26. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






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






28. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






29. Combination of aggreable tones.






30. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






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






32. Made smaller.






33. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






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






35. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






36. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






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






38. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






39. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






40. An unessential note that falls on the beat






41. Interval of less than a semitone






42. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






43. I - V ii - V IV - V






44. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






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






46. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






47. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






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






49. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






50. C- C