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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Auxiliary Notes
Plagal Cadence
Hammer on
Sequence
2. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Extension
Register
Concert pitch
Appoggiaturas
3. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Figured Bass
Development
Mixolydian
Rhythmic Imitation
4. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
Ternary Form
Binary form
Dominant
5. B- B
Locrian
Harmonic Sequences
ACDA
Ionian
6. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Pulse
Pull off
Aeolian
Arco
7. Between 3/4 and 7/8
C instruments
Major Scale Semitones
Cor Anglais Transposition
Comenius
8. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Imperfect Cadence
Pull off
9. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Sequence
Lydian
10. I - V ii - V IV - V
Imperfect Cadence
Accompaniment
Reasons for Transposing
Chromatic
11. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
C instruments
Accidentals
Pulse
12. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Fanfare
Auxiliary Notes
Timbre
Harmonic Minor Scale
13. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
C instruments
Relative (Major/Minor)
Cor Anglais Transposition
Interrupted Cadence
14. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Diminution
Rhythmic displacement
Bennet Reimer
Augmented
15. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
French Horn Transposition
Pitch
Polyphonic
Rhythmic Imitation
16. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Inverted Pedal
ASTA
17. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
ACDA
Dominant
JRME
18. Glissando in jazz music
Rhythmic Imitation
Smear
Canon
Enharmonic
19. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Inversion
Whole Tone Scale
Anacrusis
Bare chord
20. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Inverted Pedal
8
Fragmentation
Pitch
21. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Cross Rhythm
Natural Minor Scale
Consonance
Rhythmic Imitation
22. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Bare chord
Chromatic
Plagal Cadence
Kodaly Method
23. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Chromatic
Reasons for Transposing
Comenius
Leading Note
24. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Melody
Tenor Clef
Pull off
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
25. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Repetition
Contrary motion
Imitation by Inversion
Appoggiaturas
26. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Inversions of chords
Imperfect Cadence
Pulse
Fragmentation
27. American String Teachers Assocation
ASTA
Contrary motion
Dissonance
Chromatic
28. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Repetition
Kodaly Method
Consonance
29. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Comenius
Arco
Mixolydian
Coda
30. Made larger.
Dalcroze
Syncopation
Augmented
Hocket
31. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Texture
Major Scale Semitones
Pitch
Bye - tones
32. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Harmonic
Supertonic
Phrygian
Tonal Sequence
33. I - IV - V
Natural Minor Scale
Tonic Minor
Primary Triads
Locrian
34. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Blues
Riff
MM
Consonance
35. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Antiphonal
Cor Anglais Transposition
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Imperfect Cadence
36. D- D
Dorian Mode
Tonic
Absolute Music
Programme Music
37. 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.
Tempo
Rhythmic displacement
Alberti Bass
ASTA
38. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Enharmonic
Primary Triads
Melodic Sequences
Harmony
39. V - I
Rhythmic Imitation
Friedrich Froebel
Alberti Bass
Perfect Cadence
40. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Atonal
Chromatic Scale
Figured Bass
C instruments
41. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Cadence
Enharmonic
Phrygian
42. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
8
Absolute Music
Phrase
Harmony
43. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Passing Notes
Imitation by Inversion
Programme Music
Glissando
44. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Riff
Programme Music
Aeolian
5
45. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
ASTA
45
Perfect Cadence
Melodic Minor Scale
46. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Texture
ASTA
Polytonality
Hocket
47. American Choral Director's Association
Tenor Clef
A instruments
Lydian
ACDA
48. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Unrelated Chord
Melodic Sequences
AOSA
Sequence
49. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Accompaniment
Stretto
Pedal Point
B flat instruments
50. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Aeolian
Programme Music
Stretto
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