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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






2. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.






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






4. Natural Pitch






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






6. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






7. Scale made entirely of semitones.






8. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






9. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






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






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






12. Made larger.






13. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






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






15. F- F






16. Maelzel's Metronome






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






18. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






19. Alto and tenor clefs






20. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






21. C- C






22. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






23. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






24. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






25. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






26. An unessential note that falls on the beat






27. V - I






28. Highest natural adult male voice






29. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






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






31. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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32. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






33. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






34. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






35. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






36. IV - I






37. American Choral Director's Association






38. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






39. I - IV - V






40. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






41. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






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






43. Middle C






44. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






45. How high or low a note is.






46. 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.






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






48. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






49. Combination of aggreable tones.






50. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar







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