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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Bennet Reimer
Dissonance
JRME
Register
2. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Imitation
Monophonic
Antiphonal
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
3. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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4. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
Inverted Pedal
AOSA
Mixolydian
5. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Accent
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Irregular rhythm
C Clefs
6. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
Repetition
5
Tonal Sequence
7. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Relative (Major/Minor)
Microtone
Polytonality
Blues
8. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
Melody
Hammer on
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
9. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Imperfect Cadence
Blues
Submediant
Friedrich Froebel
10. 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.
8
Real Sequence
Rubato
Countermelody
11. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Accented Passing Note
Motif
Chromatic Scale
Register
12. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Subdominant
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Programme Music
Arco
13. Glissando in vocal music
Diminished
Enharmonic
Portamento
Microtone
14. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Arpeggio
Comenius
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Phrygian
15. Natural Pitch
Articulation
Polyphonic
Natural Minor Scale
Pitch
16. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Pedal Point
Five finger exercise
B flat instruments
Kodaly
17. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Sequence
18. American String Teachers Assocation
Phrase
Retrograde
Motif
ASTA
19. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Imitation by Inversion
Relative (Major/Minor)
Articulation
B flat Bass Transposition
20. 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.
Enharmonic
Alberti Bass
Tenor
Harmonic Minor Scale
21. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Pull off
Fragmentation
Bassoon
Inversion
22. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Antiphonal
Bassoon
Enharmonic
Ternary Form
23. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Syncopation
Real Sequence
ABA
Bassoon
24. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Subdominant
Passing Notes
C instruments
Syncopation
25. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Augmented
Portamento
Dalcroze
Coda
26. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Tonic
Stretto
Texture
27. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Development
Fragmentation
Atonal
Arpeggio
28. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Accent
Phrygian
Retrograde
Inversions of chords
29. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
Fanfare
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
ABA
30. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
45
Rubato
Repetition
Tonal Sequence
31. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Syncopation
Tonic
ASTA
32. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Texture
Diminished
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
33. B- B
Sequence
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Locrian
Countermelody
34. Third tone in a major or minor scale
ASCAP
Major Scale Semitones
Mediant
Supertonic
35. Occur in all parts.
Harmonic Sequences
Smear
Binary form
Dissonance
36. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Harmonic
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Melodic Minor Scale
Pull off
37. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
C Clefs
Monophonic
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Homophonic
38. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Inversions of chords
Rhythmic Imitation
Alto Clef
Bennet Reimer
39. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Atonal
Pitch
Imitation
40. Interval of less than a semitone
Accompaniment
Hammer on
Tonality
Microtone
41. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Glissando
Bennet Reimer
Supertonic
Sequence
42. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Extension
Plagal Cadence
Riff
Introduction
43. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Development
Timbre
44. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Introduction
Melodic Sequences
Dorian Mode
ACDA
45. F- F
Syncopation
Antiphonal
Lydian
Fragmentation
46. IV - I
Concert pitch
Fanfare
Plagal Cadence
Polyphonic
47. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Lydian
Hocket
Enharmonic
Pulse
48. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Semitone
Pedal Point
Development
Dalcroze
49. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Ostinato
B flat instruments
Rhythmic displacement
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
50. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Accidentals
Accented Passing Note
Tonal Sequence
Cor Anglais Transposition