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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Mediant
Bassoon
Notes of Anticipation
Relative (Major/Minor)
2. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Pentatonic Scale
Ionian
Bennet Reimer
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
3. 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.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Bye - tones
B flat Bass Transposition
Fanfare
4. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Bare chord
Stretto
Accidentals
Development
5. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Supertonic
Register
Polyphonic
6. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Whole Tone Scale
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Tonic Minor
Tenor Clef
7. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
C Clefs
Supertonic
C instruments
B flat instruments
8. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Diminution
Inversion
Unrelated Chord
9. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Augmentation
Leading Note
Kodaly
Repetition
10. 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.
Motif
Programme Music
Melodic Minor Scale
Passing Notes
11. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Ionian
Smear
Sequence
Bye - tones
12. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Anacrusis
Bye - tones
Tempo
Interval
13. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Kodaly
Melody
Retrograde
Pulse
14. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
ABA
Polyphonic
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Phrase
15. A- A
Binary form
Aeolian
Chromatic Scale
Augmented
16. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Melody
Cross Rhythm
Semitone
Canon
17. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Enharmonic
Riff
Supertonic
Motif
18. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Fragmentation
Monophonic
Mediant
Major Scale Semitones
19. F- F
Phrase
Lydian
Arpeggio
Real Sequence
20. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Augmentation
ABA
Natural Minor Scale
21. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Retrograde
Dominant
Perfect Cadence
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
22. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Mediant
Accent
B flat instruments
Pentatonic Scale
23. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Arco
Figured Bass
Unrelated Chord
Rhythmic Imitation
24. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Imitation
Semitone
Harmonic Minor Scale
Retrograde
25. Tone color or quality of sound.
Timbre
Kodaly Method
MM
Rhythmic displacement
26. Occur in all parts.
Dalcroze
Harmony
Diminished
Harmonic Sequences
27. G- G
Harmonic Sequences
Harmony
Mixolydian
Anacrusis
28. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
Pitch
Mixolydian
Arco
29. 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.
Arpeggio
Pedal Point
Figured Bass
Five finger exercise
30. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Semitone
Augmented
Augmentation
Cross Rhythm
31. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Diminished
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Natural Minor Scale
Auxiliary Notes
32. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Pentatonic Scale
Irregular rhythm
Ostinato
Subdominant
33. American Bandmaster's Association
Chromatic Scale
Subdominant
Ostinato
ABA
34. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
C Clefs
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Bare chord
ASTA
35. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Appoggiaturas
Polytonality
Tenor
Submediant
36. American Choral Director's Association
Accompaniment
Coda
Inversion
ACDA
37. Interval of less than a semitone
Fragmentation
Microtone
Countermelody
Tenor
38. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
B flat Bass Transposition
Phrygian
Dorian Mode
39. Natural Pitch
Harmonic Minor Scale
Natural Minor Scale
Cadence
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
40. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Dissonance
Aeolian
41. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Reasons for Transposing
Alto Clef
Arco
Cor Anglais Transposition
42. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
ABA
Accent
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Extension
43. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
Programme Music
Extension
Natural Minor Scale
44. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
45
Bassoon
Fanfare
Appoggiaturas
45. 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.
Figured Bass
Programme Music
Enharmonic
Inversion
46. I - V ii - V IV - V
5%
Harmonic Sequences
Imperfect Cadence
Motif
47. 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.
Anacrusis
Alberti Bass
ASCAP
Real Sequence
48. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
ASTA
Countermelody
Rhythmic Imitation
Harmonic
49. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
5
Rhythm
Mixolydian
Harmony
50. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Ostinato
Tonic Minor
Cross Rhythm
Smear