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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






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






3. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.






4. Distance between any two notes






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






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






7. Pick up bar.






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






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






10. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






11. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






12. General music is required until grade...






13. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






14. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






15. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






16. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






25. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






26. Journal of Research for Music Education






27. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






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






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






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






31. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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32. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






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






34. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






39. I - V ii - V IV - V






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






41. Sounds a minor third higher.






42. I - IV - V






43. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






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






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






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






47. Without key center






48. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






49. E- E






50. Background support for a melody.