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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Dalcroze
Phrygian
Motif
2. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Harmony
Mediant
B flat instruments
Friedrich Froebel
3. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Subdominant
Monophonic
Contrary motion
Tenor
4. American Bandmaster's Association
Alberti Bass
ABA
ASCAP
Retrograde
5. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
Interval
Submediant
Introduction
6. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Bassoon
Cadence
Inverted Pedal
Rhythmic Imitation
7. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Accidentals
Subdominant
5
Glissando
8. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Notes of Anticipation
Rhythmic displacement
Aeolian
Melodic Minor Scale
9. Another word for key.
Tonality
Articulation
Smear
Atonal
10. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Tonality
Alto Clef
Primary Triads
Mediant
11. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Coda
A instruments
Introduction
Leading Note
12. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Passing Notes
Phrygian
5%
Submediant
13. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Texture
Alberti Bass
Arpeggio
ASTA
14. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Monophonic
Riff
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
15. G- G
Rubato
Relative (Major/Minor)
Mixolydian
ASCAP
16. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
C instruments
Atonal
Kodaly
Microtone
17. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
Rubato
18. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Portamento
Notes of Anticipation
Timbre
Riff
19. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Interrupted Cadence
Cross Rhythm
Sequence
Chromatic
20. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
21. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Pull off
Contrary motion
Pentatonic Scale
Accidentals
22. American String Teachers Assocation
Melodic Sequences
Bassoon
ASTA
Riff
23. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Augmentation
Pull off
Friedrich Froebel
Homophonic
24. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Antiphonal
Countermelody
Pentatonic Scale
Dominant
25. D- D
Figured Bass
Dorian Mode
Consonance
Programme Music
26. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Dorian Mode
Fragmentation
Stretto
Tonic
27. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Kodaly
Development
Kodaly Method
Relative (Major/Minor)
28. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Accidentals
Absolute Music
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Accent
29. Middle C
Texture
Development
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
30. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Harmonic
Rubato
Accent
Notes of Anticipation
31. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Harmonic
Programme Music
Five finger exercise
32. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Passing Notes
Dalcroze
Five finger exercise
Tonal Sequence
33. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
ASTA
Tonic
Canon
Tonic Minor
34. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Dissonance
Imitation
35. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Rondo Form
Binary form
Accompaniment
Augmented
36. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Auxiliary Notes
Absolute Music
Hocket
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
37. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Extension
Inverted Pedal
Augmentation
Accent
38. Interval of less than a semitone
8
C Clefs
Dorian Mode
Microtone
39. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Pentatonic Scale
Rhythmic displacement
Mediant
8
40. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Atonal
Inversions of chords
Enharmonic
5
41. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Dissonance
Irregular rhythm
Cor Anglais Transposition
Semitone
42. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Semitone
Imperfect Cadence
Cross Rhythm
Interval
43. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Stretto
Repetition
Tonic
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
44. American Choral Director's Association
ACDA
Bennet Reimer
Repetition
Inversions of chords
45. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Glissando
Ostinato
Atonal
Microtone
46. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Augmentation
Figured Bass
Cadence
Alto Clef
47. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Introduction
Harmonic Minor Scale
B flat instruments
Interrupted Cadence
48. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Pedal Point
Enharmonic
Interval
Syncopation
49. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Pull off
Figured Bass
Cross Rhythm
A instruments
50. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Bennet Reimer
Imitation by Inversion
Syncopation
Microtone