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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. American Bandmaster's Association
Consonance
Lydian
ABA
Rhythm
2. Middle C
Introduction
Bassoon
Inversion
Note that is transposing figured around
3. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Dorian Mode
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Accent
Homophonic
4. How high or low a note is.
Figured Bass
Microtone
Imperfect Cadence
Pitch
5. D- D
45
Atonal
Dorian Mode
Rhythmic displacement
6. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Primary Triads
Lydian
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Canon
7. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Submediant
B flat Bass Transposition
Augmentation
8. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Primary Triads
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Dominant
Pedal Point
9. 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.
Phrase
Portamento
Tonal Sequence
Figured Bass
10. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Cross Rhythm
Dorian Mode
Sequence
Glissando
11. Combination of aggreable tones.
Harmony
Consonance
Note that is transposing figured around
Register
12. IV - I
Inverted Pedal
Plagal Cadence
Supertonic
Mixolydian
13. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Absolute Music
Interval
Extension
14. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Tenor Clef
Riff
Instruments that transpose at the octave
C instruments
15. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Friedrich Froebel
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Rhythmic Imitation
Plagal Cadence
16. Without key center
Polytonality
Alto Clef
Atonal
Kodaly Method
17. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Pull off
Comenius
Rubato
Pentatonic Scale
18. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Syncopation
Accompaniment
Auxiliary Notes
19. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Arco
Pedal Point
Absolute Music
Reasons for Transposing
20. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Harmonic Sequences
Riff
Countermelody
Polytonality
21. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Aeolian
Articulation
Hammer on
Coda
22. E- E
Fragmentation
B flat instruments
Rondo Form
Phrygian
23. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Articulation
Interrupted Cadence
Bye - tones
Accidentals
24. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Motif
A instruments
Development
Locrian
25. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Bare chord
Tonality
C Clefs
C instruments
26. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
Pitch
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Atonal
27. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Irregular rhythm
Figured Bass
Interval
Inverted Pedal
28. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
B flat instruments
Dissonance
Inversions of chords
Augmented
29. 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.
Register
Rhythmic displacement
Auxiliary Notes
Rubato
30. Maelzel's Metronome
ASTA
Augmented
Lydian
MM
31. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
B flat Bass Transposition
Accompaniment
Retrograde
Melody
32. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Concert pitch
Figured Bass
Contrary motion
Augmentation
33. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.
Pedal Point
Pitch
Antiphonal
A instruments
34. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Dissonance
Bennet Reimer
Mediant
Tonality
35. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Retrograde
Texture
Imitation
Smear
36. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Aeolian
Contrary motion
Appoggiaturas
Tonic
37. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Bassoon
45
Supertonic
Five finger exercise
38. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Mixolydian
5
8
Ostinato
39. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Diminished
Imperfect Cadence
Unrelated Chord
Aeolian
40. 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.
Accented Passing Note
Figured Bass
Submediant
Binary form
41. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Development
Absolute Music
Harmonic
Five finger exercise
42. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Chromatic Scale
Aeolian
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Arpeggio
43. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Ternary Form
Auxiliary Notes
Rhythmic displacement
5%
44. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Ionian
Imperfect Cadence
Microtone
45. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Tenor
Notes of Anticipation
Appoggiaturas
Pulse
46. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Arpeggio
Cadence
Subdominant
Ternary Form
47. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Tonality
B flat instruments
Diminished
48. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Pitch
Homophonic
Whole Tone Scale
Hocket
49. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Locrian
Antiphonal
Irregular rhythm
Leading Note
50. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Passing Notes
Syncopation
B flat instruments
Timbre