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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






2. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






3. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






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






5. E- E






6. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






7. Scale made entirely of semitones.






8. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






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






10. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






11. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






12. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.






13. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






14. 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.






15. I - V ii - V IV - V






16. General music is required until grade...






17. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






18. 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.






19. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






20. Chord without a third.






21. Consists entirely of whole steps.






22. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






23. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






24. Occur in all parts.






25. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






26. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






27. C- C






28. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






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






30. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






31. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






32. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






33. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






34. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






35. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






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






37. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






38. Distance between any two notes






39. Between 3/4 and 7/8






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






41. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






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






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






44. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






45. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






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






47. B- B






48. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






49. Another word for key.






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