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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Natural Minor Scale
Primary Triads
Passing Notes
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
2. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Harmony
Fragmentation
5%
Bennet Reimer
3. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Reasons for Transposing
Tenor
Melodic Minor Scale
Notes of Anticipation
4. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Diminution
Reasons for Transposing
Smear
8
5. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Accidentals
Fragmentation
Cross Rhythm
Timbre
6. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Inversions of chords
Harmonic
Retrograde
Enharmonic
7. Highest natural adult male voice
Whole Tone Scale
Tenor
Bennet Reimer
Pull off
8. 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.
Dorian Mode
Texture
Absolute Music
Fanfare
9. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Articulation
Imperfect Cadence
Bye - tones
Consonance
10. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
AOSA
Lydian
Melodic Minor Scale
C instruments
11. Pick up bar.
Mediant
Atonal
Anacrusis
Glissando
12. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Kodaly
Blues
Hocket
Tenor Clef
13. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Alberti Bass
Ostinato
Major Scale Semitones
Mediant
14. A- A
Aeolian
Auxiliary Notes
Supertonic
Rubato
15. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Major Scale Semitones
Interrupted Cadence
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Bennet Reimer
16. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Semitone
Programme Music
B flat instruments
Major Scale Semitones
17. Maelzel's Metronome
Glissando
MM
Hammer on
Harmony
18. Made smaller.
Tonic Minor
Stretto
Diminished
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
19. Tone color or quality of sound.
Interrupted Cadence
Locrian
Reasons for Transposing
Timbre
20. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Polytonality
Countermelody
Interval
Cross Rhythm
21. C- C
Ionian
Repetition
Melody
ASCAP
22. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Figured Bass
Chromatic
Mediant
Note that is transposing figured around
23. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Friedrich Froebel
Consonance
Note that is transposing figured around
Introduction
24. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Arco
A instruments
Harmonic
Harmonic Minor Scale
25. 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.
Diminution
5%
Homophonic
Rhythmic Imitation
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.
Pedal Point
Stretto
Binary form
Imitation by Inversion
27. E- E
Polyphonic
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Semitone
Phrygian
28. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Fanfare
Ionian
Motif
Tempo
29. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Blues
Texture
Tonic Minor
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
30. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Inverted Pedal
Ostinato
8
Articulation
31. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Diminished
Texture
Supertonic
Semitone
32. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
C Clefs
Imitation
Semitone
Pentatonic Scale
33. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Pentatonic Scale
Melody
Ostinato
Canon
34. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Bare chord
Accented Passing Note
5
Extension
35. 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.
Semitone
Glissando
Natural Minor Scale
C Clefs
36. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Notes of Anticipation
45
Timbre
Whole Tone Scale
37. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Augmentation
Appoggiaturas
B flat Bass Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
38. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Reasons for Transposing
Semitone
Accented Passing Note
39. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
Subdominant
Inversion
Natural Minor Scale
40. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Pedal Point
5%
Imitation by Inversion
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
41. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Perfect Cadence
Stretto
Hammer on
Supertonic
42. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Pedal Point
Smear
Harmonic Minor Scale
AOSA
43. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Irregular rhythm
Reasons for Transposing
Tonal Sequence
Tenor
44. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Phrygian
Melodic Minor Scale
Cross Rhythm
Register
45. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Arco
Mediant
Harmonic Minor Scale
46. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Polyphonic
Introduction
B flat Bass Transposition
Pulse
47. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Interval
Figured Bass
Ostinato
Monophonic
48. American Choral Director's Association
Phrase
ACDA
Dissonance
Accidentals
49. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
ABA
Tonic Minor
Dorian Mode
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
50. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Friedrich Froebel
French Horn Transposition
Syncopation
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