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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Bare chord
Register
Cadence
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
2. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Friedrich Froebel
Inversion
Antiphonal
Polytonality
3. Pick up bar.
Portamento
Monophonic
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Anacrusis
4. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Melodic Sequences
Supertonic
Timbre
Passing Notes
5. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Homophonic
Pentatonic Scale
Tonic Minor
Reasons for Transposing
6. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Articulation
Motif
Alberti Bass
Repetition
7. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Tempo
Motif
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
45
8. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Canon
Tonality
Inverted Pedal
Rhythmic displacement
9. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Extension
Harmonic Sequences
Dissonance
10. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
AOSA
Enharmonic
Relative (Major/Minor)
Retrograde
11. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Binary form
Irregular rhythm
Notes of Anticipation
Imitation
12. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pulse
Auxiliary Notes
Interrupted Cadence
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
13. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Atonal
Semitone
Accidentals
Smear
14. 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.
Phrase
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
A instruments
Pentatonic Scale
15. Made larger.
Reasons for Transposing
Tenor Clef
Augmented
Perfect Cadence
16. F- F
Lydian
AOSA
Bassoon
5
17. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Tonal Sequence
Five finger exercise
Accidentals
Leading Note
18. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Melodic Minor Scale
Fragmentation
Bassoon
Augmented
19. Another word for key.
Tonality
Alberti Bass
C Clefs
Ionian
20. Distance between any two notes
Relative (Major/Minor)
Interval
Chromatic Scale
ASCAP
21. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Accidentals
Homophonic
Harmonic
Chromatic
22. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
Instruments that transpose at the octave
MM
5%
23. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Tonic Minor
Homophonic
Syncopation
Perfect Cadence
24. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Passing Notes
Stretto
Unrelated Chord
25. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Primary Triads
Glissando
Articulation
AOSA
26. Combination of aggreable tones.
Consonance
Bye - tones
Alberti Bass
C instruments
27. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Rondo Form
Sequence
Tonal Sequence
28. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Augmentation
Aeolian
Hocket
Comenius
29. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
ACDA
Rondo Form
Passing Notes
Comenius
30. Made smaller.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Phrase
A instruments
Diminished
31. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Ionian
Portamento
Reasons for Transposing
Inversion
32. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
Riff
Augmentation
Cor Anglais Transposition
33. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Melodic Minor Scale
Articulation
Arco
Pentatonic Scale
34. C- C
Ternary Form
Cadence
Ionian
Stretto
35. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Supertonic
Phrygian
Accented Passing Note
Subdominant
36. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Mixolydian
Register
Whole Tone Scale
Diminution
37. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Inverted Pedal
Relative (Major/Minor)
Supertonic
Contrary motion
38. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Glissando
Dissonance
Rhythm
Imitation by Inversion
39. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
ABA
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Auxiliary Notes
Interrupted Cadence
40. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Primary Triads
A instruments
Submediant
Pentatonic Scale
41. V - I
Perfect Cadence
Consonance
Submediant
Accidentals
42. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Stretto
Coda
Subdominant
Passing Notes
43. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
Chromatic
Absolute Music
Harmonic
44. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Pulse
Melodic Sequences
Real Sequence
Fragmentation
45. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Accented Passing Note
Bennet Reimer
Ostinato
Register
46. Occur in all parts.
Diminished
Augmentation
Harmonic Sequences
Perfect Cadence
47. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
ASCAP
Canon
Comenius
Notes of Anticipation
48. Interval of less than a semitone
A instruments
Blues
ABA
Microtone
49. V - vi
Augmentation
Accompaniment
Plagal Cadence
Interrupted Cadence
50. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Inverted Pedal
Supertonic
Development
Gordon's Music Learning Theory