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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Irregular rhythm
Bassoon
Pull off
Harmonic Minor Scale
2. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Subdominant
Dalcroze
Glissando
Syncopation
3. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
Rhythm
Cor Anglais Transposition
Major Scale Semitones
4. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Augmentation
Leading Note
Relative (Major/Minor)
Melody
5. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Canon
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Melodic Minor Scale
Augmented
6. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Inverted Pedal
Fanfare
Fragmentation
Cross Rhythm
7. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Consonance
Lydian
Absolute Music
Imperfect Cadence
8. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Riff
Dissonance
MM
Contrary motion
9. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Pentatonic Scale
Natural Minor Scale
Tonal Sequence
Phrase
10. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Interrupted Cadence
Appoggiaturas
Hammer on
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
11. Distance between any two notes
Mixolydian
Semitone
Interval
Kodaly
12. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
ASTA
Whole Tone Scale
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Melodic Minor Scale
13. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Monophonic
Motif
Polytonality
Arpeggio
14. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
ACDA
Five finger exercise
Enharmonic
B flat Bass Transposition
15. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Lydian
Real Sequence
Tonal Sequence
16. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Melody
Bye - tones
45
Figured Bass
17. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Kodaly
B flat Bass Transposition
Articulation
Anacrusis
18. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
ASTA
Arco
Passing Notes
19. 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.
Comenius
Interval
Pedal Point
Figured Bass
20. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Primary Triads
ACDA
Relative (Major/Minor)
Real Sequence
21. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Dominant
Sequence
Tempo
Arpeggio
22. Another word for key.
Tonality
Bennet Reimer
Arco
Accent
23. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Mixolydian
Homophonic
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Phrase
24. B- B
Locrian
45
Dominant
Instruments that transpose at the octave
25. D- D
Dorian Mode
Tempo
ACDA
Texture
26. Pick up bar.
Comenius
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Anacrusis
Harmony
27. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Rhythmic displacement
Ostinato
Hocket
Perfect Cadence
28. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Chromatic
Ternary Form
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
A instruments
29. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Contrary motion
Aeolian
Tonal Sequence
30. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Auxiliary Notes
Kodaly Method
Coda
31. 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.
Blues
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Fanfare
32. V - I
Perfect Cadence
Ostinato
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Relative (Major/Minor)
33. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Hocket
Bye - tones
B flat instruments
Harmony
34. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Polytonality
Mediant
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Interval
35. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Harmony
Pitch
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
36. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Figured Bass
Harmonic Sequences
Consonance
37. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Harmonic
Dalcroze
Harmonic Minor Scale
Pentatonic Scale
38. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Contrary motion
Imitation
Programme Music
Chromatic Scale
39. F- F
Lydian
Hocket
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Atonal
40. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Kodaly
Tonic Minor
Augmentation
Five finger exercise
41. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Extension
Harmonic
Comenius
Kodaly
42. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Augmentation
Comenius
Countermelody
Harmony
43. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
Polyphonic
Antiphonal
Timbre
44. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Perfect Cadence
B flat instruments
Articulation
Concert pitch
45. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Accent
46. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Harmonic Minor Scale
Melody
Cadence
Development
47. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Inversions of chords
Perfect Cadence
Passing Notes
Tempo
48. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Dorian Mode
Real Sequence
Imitation by Inversion
Monophonic
49. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
Dominant
Harmonic Minor Scale
Syncopation
50. 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.
Harmonic Sequences
Phrase
Texture
Hocket
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