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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Subdominant
Notes of Anticipation
Tonic Minor
Coda
2. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
B flat instruments
Consonance
Melody
5%
3. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Melody
5%
Absolute Music
Rubato
4. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Harmonic
Pulse
Inverted Pedal
Bare chord
5. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Smear
Programme Music
Bennet Reimer
6. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Extension
Contrary motion
Accidentals
7. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Pull off
Chromatic
Cross Rhythm
Augmented
8. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Diminished
Cross Rhythm
Register
9. D- D
Dorian Mode
Rubato
AOSA
Harmonic Minor Scale
10. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Pentatonic Scale
Mixolydian
Rubato
Bye - tones
11. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Chromatic
Imitation
Diminished
Interval
12. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
Harmonic Minor Scale
Tenor Clef
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
13. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
B flat instruments
Arco
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Kodaly Method
14. Without key center
Binary form
Atonal
Rhythmic displacement
Tempo
15. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Imperfect Cadence
Enharmonic
Melodic Sequences
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
16. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Instruments that transpose at the octave
B flat instruments
Motif
5
17. American Choral Director's Association
ACDA
A instruments
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Harmonic
18. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Interval
Rhythmic Imitation
Comenius
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
19. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
Binary form
Unrelated Chord
Imperfect Cadence
ACDA
20. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
Augmentation
Coda
Tonal Sequence
21. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Consonance
Harmonic
Rhythm
22. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
5
Ostinato
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Accent
23. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Absolute Music
Supertonic
Appoggiaturas
Polytonality
24. 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.
C Clefs
Contrary motion
Figured Bass
Phrase
25. Chord without a third.
Diminished
A instruments
Bare chord
Dorian Mode
26. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Antiphonal
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Rhythmic Imitation
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
27. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Tonic
Fragmentation
Pitch
Polyphonic
28. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Articulation
Consonance
Monophonic
Perfect Cadence
29. Combination of aggreable tones.
Melodic Sequences
Consonance
French Horn Transposition
Diminished
30. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Extension
Five finger exercise
Bare chord
Primary Triads
31. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Coda
Imperfect Cadence
Development
Countermelody
32. Made smaller.
Diminished
Tenor
Notes of Anticipation
Portamento
33. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Harmonic
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Texture
Development
34. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
ASCAP
Blues
Countermelody
Retrograde
35. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Concert pitch
Timbre
Phrase
36. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Pitch
Extension
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
37. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Inverted Pedal
Dominant
Harmonic
Tonic Minor
38. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Imperfect Cadence
Programme Music
Articulation
Imitation by Inversion
39. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Concert pitch
Pull off
Alto Clef
40. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Countermelody
Harmonic
Accented Passing Note
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
41. Interval of less than a semitone
Sequence
Microtone
Imitation
Ternary Form
42. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Lydian
Articulation
Cadence
Kodaly
43. I - V ii - V IV - V
Imperfect Cadence
Monophonic
Inverted Pedal
Syncopation
44. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Real Sequence
Dalcroze
ASCAP
Rhythmic Imitation
45. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
Accompaniment
Articulation
Phrase
46. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
8
Melodic Minor Scale
Relative (Major/Minor)
47. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Dissonance
Tempo
Cadence
Microtone
48. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Development
Whole Tone Scale
Figured Bass
49. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Passing Notes
Stretto
Augmented
Arpeggio
50. C- C
Ionian
Chromatic
Binary form
Imitation