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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 Choral Director's Association






3. 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.






4. Organization of musical notes in time.






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






6. Interval of less than a semitone






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






8. 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.






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






10. Alto and tenor clefs






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






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






13. Consists entirely of whole steps.






14. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






15. Occur in all parts.






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






17. Between 3/4 and 7/8






18. V - I






19. E- E






20. C- C






21. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






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






23. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






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






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

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26. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.






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






28. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






29. Highest natural adult male voice






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






31. Natural Pitch






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






33. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






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






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






36. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






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






38. B- B






39. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






40. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.






41. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






42. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






43. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






44. Glissando in jazz music






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






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






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






48. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






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






50. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.