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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
ASCAP
Interval
Cross Rhythm
Diminution
2. Distance between any two notes
Primary Triads
Whole Tone Scale
Figured Bass
Interval
3. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Bennet Reimer
B flat instruments
Pentatonic Scale
Polyphonic
4. 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.
Ionian
Enharmonic
ASTA
Figured Bass
5. B- B
Real Sequence
Locrian
Riff
5%
6. American Choral Director's Association
ACDA
Introduction
Passing Notes
Lydian
7. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.
Rhythmic displacement
Phrygian
Smear
Motif
8. Tone color or quality of sound.
Five finger exercise
Timbre
Notes of Anticipation
Hocket
9. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
ASTA
AOSA
10. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Register
Rhythmic displacement
Mediant
Cor Anglais Transposition
11. V - I
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Binary form
Accidentals
Perfect Cadence
12. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
Harmonic
Rhythmic displacement
Dorian Mode
13. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Dissonance
Melodic Sequences
Alberti Bass
Inverted Pedal
14. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Imitation by Inversion
Dissonance
Augmentation
15. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Bye - tones
Stretto
Blues
Rhythmic displacement
16. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
45
Arco
Tenor
17. American String Teachers Assocation
Rondo Form
Passing Notes
ASTA
8
18. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Cross Rhythm
Bye - tones
Friedrich Froebel
Bennet Reimer
19. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Blues
Accent
Polytonality
Riff
20. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Submediant
Harmony
AOSA
Hocket
21. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Figured Bass
Semitone
Tenor
22. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Accidentals
Cadence
Ternary Form
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
23. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Submediant
Inversion
Kodaly Method
Absolute Music
24. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Sequence
Retrograde
Stretto
Primary Triads
25. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
Augmented
Rhythm
Pitch
26. 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.
Fanfare
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Ternary Form
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
27. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Whole Tone Scale
Pitch
Augmentation
Glissando
28. Sounds a minor third higher.
Whole Tone Scale
Homophonic
JRME
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
29. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Rubato
Arco
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
30. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Pentatonic Scale
Arco
Melodic Sequences
Melodic Minor Scale
31. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Interrupted Cadence
Reasons for Transposing
Tonic
Tonic Minor
32. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Imitation by Inversion
Tonic
Unrelated Chord
Fanfare
33. Background support for a melody.
Rubato
Accompaniment
Rhythm
Note that is transposing figured around
34. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Notes of Anticipation
Alto Clef
Bennet Reimer
Programme Music
35. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Whole Tone Scale
Imperfect Cadence
Hammer on
Dalcroze
36. Alto and tenor clefs
Canon
C Clefs
Ostinato
Dominant
37. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Dissonance
Bennet Reimer
Passing Notes
Microtone
38. Pick up bar.
Accent
Extension
Anacrusis
Harmonic Sequences
39. American Bandmaster's Association
Imitation
ABA
8
ASTA
40. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
ASCAP
Arco
MM
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
41. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Arpeggio
Anacrusis
C Clefs
42. How high or low a note is.
Kodaly Method
Binary form
Pitch
B flat Bass Transposition
43. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
Binary form
Glissando
Friedrich Froebel
Rondo Form
44. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Smear
Harmony
Dissonance
45. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Enharmonic
Submediant
Register
Locrian
46. G- G
A instruments
Cadence
Smear
Mixolydian
47. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
ACDA
Hocket
Inversions of chords
Figured Bass
48. A- A
Register
Aeolian
Retrograde
5
49. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Programme Music
ASTA
Phrygian
50. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Aeolian
Reasons for Transposing
Tenor
Consonance