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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






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






4. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






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






6. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






7. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






8. Made larger.






9. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






10. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






11. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






12. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






13. G- G






14. General music is required until grade...






15. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






16. Between 3/4 and 7/8






17. V - I






18. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.






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






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






21. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






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






23. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






24. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






25. IV - I






26. 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.






27. An annual budget is provided for the replacement of school - owned instruments that is equivalent to at least ______ of the current replacement value of the total inventory.






28. Chord without a third.






29. Highest natural adult male voice






30. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






31. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






32. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






33. Combination of aggreable tones.






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






35. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






36. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






37. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






38. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






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






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






41. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






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

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






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






45. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






46. 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.






47. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






48. Made smaller.






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






50. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.