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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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

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2. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






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






4. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






6. An unessential note that falls on the beat






7. American Bandmaster's Association






8. C- C






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






10. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.






11. 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.






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






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






14. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






15. Sounds minor seventh higher.






16. IV - I






17. Third tone in a major or minor scale






18. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






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






20. Without key center






21. Between 3/4 and 7/8






22. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






23. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






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






25. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






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






27. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






28. Sounds a minor third higher.






29. 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.






30. I - IV - V






31. A- A






32. F- F






33. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






34. Consists entirely of whole steps.






35. I - V ii - V IV - V






36. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






37. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






38. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






39. Alto and tenor clefs






40. Middle C






41. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






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






43. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






44. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.






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






46. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






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






48. Made smaller.






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






50. 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.