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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






3. Natural Pitch






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






5. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






6. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






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






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






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






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






11. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






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






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






14. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.






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






16. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






17. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






18. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






19. Tone color or quality of sound.






20. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.






21. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






22. 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.






23. Combination of aggreable tones.






24. I - IV - V






25. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. Organization of musical notes in time.






29. Sounds minor seventh higher.






30. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Occur in all parts.






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






37. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






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






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






40. I - V ii - V IV - V






41. B- B






42. Glissando in vocal music






43. V - I






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






45. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






46. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






47. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.






48. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






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






50. General music is required until grade...