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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Natural Minor Scale
Pitch
Cor Anglais Transposition
Retrograde
2. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Mediant
Notes of Anticipation
Irregular rhythm
3. Maelzel's Metronome
Unrelated Chord
Dissonance
Dorian Mode
MM
4. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Reasons for Transposing
Accented Passing Note
B flat Bass Transposition
Accent
5. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Augmented
Absolute Music
Polyphonic
Accompaniment
6. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Diminished
Diminution
Harmonic Sequences
Melody
7. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Melody
Bye - tones
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
8. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Tenor
Imitation by Inversion
Coda
Cadence
9. Pick up bar.
Aeolian
Anacrusis
Tonality
Rhythm
10. 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.
ABA
8
Rhythmic displacement
Pedal Point
11. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
Pull off
Melodic Sequences
Bassoon
12. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Consonance
Whole Tone Scale
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Supertonic
13. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Whole Tone Scale
Friedrich Froebel
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
14. Background support for a melody.
Tonal Sequence
Accompaniment
Alberti Bass
Pentatonic Scale
15. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Sequence
Bare chord
Rondo Form
16. 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.
Kodaly
Fanfare
B flat instruments
Notes of Anticipation
17. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Inversion
Imitation
Supertonic
Extension
18. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Real Sequence
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Smear
Pitch
19. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Sequence
Whole Tone Scale
Register
Aeolian
20. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Ternary Form
Stretto
Harmonic Minor Scale
Pulse
21. D- D
Bye - tones
Dorian Mode
Tonal Sequence
MM
22. American Bandmaster's Association
Binary form
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
ABA
Fanfare
23. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Stretto
Articulation
Auxiliary Notes
Ionian
24. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Bare chord
Subdominant
Blues
25. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Appoggiaturas
Irregular rhythm
Lydian
26. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Rhythm
B flat Bass Transposition
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Polyphonic
27. Made smaller.
Register
5%
Diminished
ACDA
28. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Pull off
45
ASCAP
Irregular rhythm
29. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Canon
Friedrich Froebel
Accidentals
Retrograde
30. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Chromatic Scale
Enharmonic
Harmonic
31. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Hammer on
Accented Passing Note
Inversions of chords
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
32. 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.
Diminution
Countermelody
Alberti Bass
ASTA
33. Journal of Research for Music Education
Bassoon
Portamento
JRME
Hocket
34. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
AOSA
Dominant
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Accented Passing Note
35. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Inversions of chords
Friedrich Froebel
Relative (Major/Minor)
Unrelated Chord
36. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Concert pitch
Cadence
Glissando
37. IV - I
Plagal Cadence
8
Harmonic Minor Scale
Bassoon
38. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Tonal Sequence
Rhythmic Imitation
Bye - tones
Rhythmic displacement
39. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Mixolydian
Arpeggio
Melody
Coda
40. Chord without a third.
Locrian
Concert pitch
Bare chord
C Clefs
41. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Rondo Form
Leading Note
Augmented
Enharmonic
42. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Introduction
Friedrich Froebel
Pentatonic Scale
Notes of Anticipation
43. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Imitation
Augmentation
Harmonic Minor Scale
ACDA
44. C- C
Natural Minor Scale
Rondo Form
Fanfare
Ionian
45. American String Teachers Assocation
Binary form
5
Canon
ASTA
46. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Pull off
A instruments
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
47. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Rhythmic displacement
Harmonic Sequences
B flat instruments
Semitone
48. Glissando in vocal music
Unrelated Chord
Portamento
ASTA
Sequence
49. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Tonal Sequence
Canon
Appoggiaturas
50. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Melodic Sequences
Interrupted Cadence
Diminution
Subdominant