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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Homophonic
Subdominant
Locrian
Arco
2. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Rhythmic Imitation
Extension
Articulation
Supertonic
3. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Stretto
Enharmonic
ASCAP
Repetition
4. Distance between any two notes
Cadence
Interval
Inverted Pedal
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
5. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
Polytonality
Motif
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
6. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Retrograde
Inversions of chords
Accented Passing Note
Interval
7. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
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Phrase
Retrograde
Sequence
8. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Accompaniment
Harmonic Sequences
Kodaly
Locrian
9. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
8
Rhythmic displacement
Diminution
Bassoon
10. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Retrograde
Fragmentation
Melodic Minor Scale
Bassoon
11. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Melody
Inversions of chords
Dissonance
Mixolydian
12. Pick up bar.
C Clefs
Contrary motion
Anacrusis
Augmented
13. B- B
Locrian
Melody
Blues
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
14. 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
Locrian
Accent
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
15. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Real Sequence
Ternary Form
JRME
French Horn Transposition
16. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Programme Music
Interval
ASTA
Concert pitch
17. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
AOSA
Dominant
Ionian
Friedrich Froebel
18. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Tonic
French Horn Transposition
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
19. Glissando in jazz music
Introduction
Accompaniment
Smear
Inverted Pedal
20. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Bassoon
A instruments
Articulation
B flat Bass Transposition
21. 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.
Extension
ASTA
Register
Figured Bass
22. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Chromatic
Portamento
Tonal Sequence
23. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Dorian Mode
ASCAP
Sequence
Timbre
24. Chord without a third.
ABA
Harmony
Bare chord
Imitation by Inversion
25. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Register
5
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Harmony
26. Combination of aggreable tones.
Polytonality
Melody
Consonance
Hocket
27. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Harmonic
Dominant
Contrary motion
Relative (Major/Minor)
28. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Appoggiaturas
B flat instruments
Leading Note
Repetition
29. V - vi
Interrupted Cadence
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Consonance
Tempo
30. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
Dominant
Anacrusis
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
31. Without key center
Bennet Reimer
Texture
Coda
Atonal
32. Sounds a minor third higher.
Bassoon
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
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Fragmentation
33. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
5
Atonal
Tonic Minor
Inverted Pedal
34. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Fanfare
Rhythmic Imitation
Homophonic
35. F- F
Lydian
Texture
Cross Rhythm
ACDA
36. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Stretto
Comenius
Mixolydian
37. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Imitation by Inversion
JRME
Melodic Sequences
38. Organization of musical notes in time.
Contrary motion
Harmonic
Rhythm
ABA
39. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Bye - tones
Comenius
Diminished
Chromatic Scale
40. Made smaller.
Comenius
Imitation by Inversion
Hocket
Diminished
41. 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.
Rondo Form
Interval
Fanfare
AOSA
42. 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.
Phrase
AOSA
Anacrusis
Alberti Bass
43. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Dorian Mode
Blues
Tenor Clef
A instruments
44. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Ternary Form
Chromatic Scale
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Unrelated Chord
45. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Dalcroze
Polytonality
JRME
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46. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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47. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Arpeggio
Real Sequence
Tonic
ACDA
48. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Portamento
Harmonic Sequences
Leading Note
49. A- A
Aeolian
Fragmentation
Accompaniment
Inversion
50. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Locrian
Hammer on
Interrupted Cadence
Inversions of chords