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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Made larger.






2. Natural Pitch






3. V - I






4. Highest natural adult male voice






5. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






6. How high or low a note is.






7. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






8. F- F






9. Without key center






10. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






11. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






12. Pick up bar.






13. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






14. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






15. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






16. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






17. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






18. V - vi






19. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






20. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






21. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






22. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






23. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






24. B- B






25. Scale made entirely of semitones.






26. 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.






27. Journal of Research for Music Education






28. Distance between any two notes






29. General music is required until grade...






30. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






31. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)






32. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






33. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






34. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






35. Consists entirely of whole steps.






36. Tone color or quality of sound.






37. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






38. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






39. IV - I






40. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






41. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






42. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






43. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






44. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






45. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line






46. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






47. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






48. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






49. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






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.