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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
ABA
Interval
Auxiliary Notes
2. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
5
Accent
Hammer on
Texture
3. G- G
Development
Inversions of chords
Mixolydian
Motif
4. 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.
Fragmentation
C Clefs
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Motif
5. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Locrian
Interrupted Cadence
Rondo Form
Imitation
6. F- F
5
Kodaly
Lydian
Major Scale Semitones
7. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Primary Triads
Harmonic Minor Scale
Ostinato
Aeolian
8. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Monophonic
Texture
A instruments
9. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Smear
Tonic Minor
Arpeggio
Passing Notes
10. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Kodaly
Programme Music
Pitch
Chromatic Scale
11. American Choral Director's Association
ACDA
Coda
Articulation
Ostinato
12. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Repetition
Articulation
Inversion
Semitone
13. 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.
Phrase
Imperfect Cadence
Canon
Note that is transposing figured around
14. Another word for key.
Leading Note
Accented Passing Note
Tonality
Consonance
15. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Bare chord
Dissonance
45
Kodaly Method
16. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Imitation
Pitch
Antiphonal
Unrelated Chord
17. General music is required until grade...
AOSA
ABA
8
Subdominant
18. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Imitation
Tonic Minor
Mixolydian
Bye - tones
19. Organization of musical notes in time.
Rhythm
Lydian
Appoggiaturas
Rubato
20. V - I
Notes of Anticipation
Polyphonic
Imperfect Cadence
Perfect Cadence
21. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Supertonic
Register
Monophonic
Bennet Reimer
22. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Pentatonic Scale
Hammer on
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Canon
23. American Bandmaster's Association
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Cor Anglais Transposition
Leading Note
ABA
24. Chord without a third.
Leading Note
Stretto
Bare chord
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
25. Tone color or quality of sound.
Cor Anglais Transposition
B flat instruments
Contrary motion
Timbre
26. 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.
Portamento
Inverted Pedal
Pedal Point
Plagal Cadence
27. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Tonic Minor
Fragmentation
Dissonance
Bye - tones
28. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Unrelated Chord
A instruments
Dissonance
MM
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.
Alberti Bass
Ostinato
Tenor
Augmented
30. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
Dalcroze
Atonal
Alto Clef
31. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Locrian
Monophonic
Programme Music
Homophonic
32. 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.
Alberti Bass
Rubato
5%
Harmony
33. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Pitch
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Submediant
Cor Anglais Transposition
34. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Appoggiaturas
French Horn Transposition
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Hocket
35. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Texture
B flat instruments
Leading Note
Mediant
36. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Timbre
Diminution
Fanfare
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
37. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Passing Notes
Friedrich Froebel
Polyphonic
Locrian
38. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Blues
Cross Rhythm
Fragmentation
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
39. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Diminished
Accented Passing Note
Subdominant
Diminution
40. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Development
Texture
MM
41. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Diminution
Pitch
Tempo
42. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Polyphonic
Introduction
Major Scale Semitones
Mixolydian
43. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Pulse
Countermelody
Retrograde
ABA
44. D- D
Countermelody
Dorian Mode
Sequence
Comenius
45. Made larger.
Programme Music
Augmented
A instruments
ASCAP
46. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Fanfare
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Imperfect Cadence
Melodic Minor Scale
47. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Riff
Interrupted Cadence
Friedrich Froebel
Accented Passing Note
48. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Supertonic
Cor Anglais Transposition
Ternary Form
MM
49. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Timbre
B flat instruments
Ternary Form
Lydian
50. 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.
Absolute Music
Hammer on
Five finger exercise
Fanfare