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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Auxiliary Notes
B flat instruments
French Horn Transposition
Contrary motion
2. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Harmony
Mixolydian
Glissando
Bye - tones
3. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
5%
Accompaniment
Extension
Accent
4. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
Tonic Minor
Stretto
Smear
5. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Accented Passing Note
Imperfect Cadence
Submediant
Diminished
6. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Perfect Cadence
Rubato
Pentatonic Scale
Canon
7. C- C
ABA
Chromatic
Alberti Bass
Ionian
8. 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.
Absolute Music
Rubato
Inversions of chords
Cross Rhythm
9. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Rondo Form
Arpeggio
Monophonic
Alto Clef
10. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Leading Note
Dalcroze
Unrelated Chord
Auxiliary Notes
11. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Phrase
Development
Tonic Minor
Note that is transposing figured around
12. E- E
Portamento
Polyphonic
Polytonality
Phrygian
13. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Canon
Ternary Form
Smear
Introduction
14. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Accent
Reasons for Transposing
Cadence
Melody
15. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Fanfare
Leading Note
Note that is transposing figured around
Melodic Sequences
16. Middle C
Dominant
Aeolian
Note that is transposing figured around
Augmentation
17. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Tempo
Notes of Anticipation
Unrelated Chord
Bye - tones
18. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Five finger exercise
Tonal Sequence
Major Scale Semitones
Pulse
19. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Antiphonal
Bennet Reimer
Semitone
Appoggiaturas
20. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Monophonic
Aeolian
C Clefs
Five finger exercise
21. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Polyphonic
Interval
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Homophonic
22. I - IV - V
JRME
Monophonic
Primary Triads
Texture
23. V - I
Imperfect Cadence
Blues
Perfect Cadence
Pulse
24. American Bandmaster's Association
ABA
Antiphonal
Kodaly
Riff
25. Background support for a melody.
Arco
Bare chord
Tonality
Accompaniment
26. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Stretto
Bassoon
5
Subdominant
27. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Riff
B flat Bass Transposition
A instruments
Bye - tones
28. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
B flat instruments
Rhythmic Imitation
Rondo Form
Inverted Pedal
29. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
B flat instruments
Tenor Clef
Microtone
Pentatonic Scale
30. How high or low a note is.
5
ASCAP
Pitch
Ostinato
31. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Ostinato
Arco
Comenius
Imperfect Cadence
32. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
Polytonality
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Enharmonic
33. A- A
Bye - tones
Aeolian
Inverted Pedal
Chromatic
34. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
Irregular rhythm
Repetition
ASCAP
35. General music is required until grade...
French Horn Transposition
8
Countermelody
Harmonic Minor Scale
36. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Relative (Major/Minor)
Ionian
Alberti Bass
Submediant
37. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Subdominant
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
B flat instruments
Pull off
38. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Atonal
Locrian
Pulse
Absolute Music
39. G- G
Rhythmic displacement
Mixolydian
Inversion
Bassoon
40. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Natural Minor Scale
ABA
Stretto
Rubato
41. American String Teachers Assocation
5
Primary Triads
Kodaly
ASTA
42. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Enharmonic
Arco
Melody
Glissando
43. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Subdominant
Smear
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
AOSA
44. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Blues
Alberti Bass
Accidentals
Augmentation
45. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Riff
Diminution
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Harmonic Sequences
46. Natural Pitch
Pulse
Natural Minor Scale
Homophonic
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47. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Kodaly Method
Rubato
Plagal Cadence
Instruments that transpose at the octave
48. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Texture
Imitation
Tonic
Anacrusis
49. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mixolydian
Hocket
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Mediant
50. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Rhythmic Imitation
Smear
Repetition
B flat Bass Transposition
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