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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






2. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






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.






4. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






5. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line






6. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






7. Interval of less than a semitone






8. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.






9. American Choral Director's Association






10. Highest natural adult male voice






11. Tone color or quality of sound.






12. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






13. An unessential note that falls on the beat






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






15. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






16. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






17. Natural Pitch






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






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






20. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






21. Journal of Research for Music Education






22. Middle C






23. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






24. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






25. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






26. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






27. Another word for key.






28. Sounds minor seventh higher.






29. Alto and tenor clefs






30. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






31. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






32. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






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






34. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






35. General music is required until grade...






36. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






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






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






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






40. Without key center






41. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.






42. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






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






44. 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.






45. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






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

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47. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






48. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






50. V - vi