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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. An unessential note that falls on the beat






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






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






4. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






5. Another word for key.






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






10. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






11. 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.






12. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






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






14. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






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






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






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






18. Made larger.






19. Pick up bar.






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






21. E- E






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






23. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






25. Glissando in jazz music






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






27. IV - I






28. Distance between any two notes






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






34. Between 3/4 and 7/8






35. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






36. Without key center






37. B- B






38. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






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

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40. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






41. Maelzel's Metronome






42. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






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






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






45. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






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






47. Third tone in a major or minor scale






48. Background support for a melody.






49. 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.






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