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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
French Horn Transposition
Kodaly Method
Rhythmic displacement
Pulse
2. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Harmonic Sequences
Bye - tones
AOSA
Inversions of chords
3. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Natural Minor Scale
Binary form
Passing Notes
Harmony
4. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cor Anglais Transposition
ASTA
Cadence
Register
5. B- B
Locrian
Chromatic
Perfect Cadence
Pedal Point
6. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
B flat instruments
Bassoon
5
Pitch
7. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Arpeggio
Stretto
Natural Minor Scale
Note that is transposing figured around
8. Background support for a melody.
Repetition
Interval
Ostinato
Accompaniment
9. Glissando in jazz music
Supertonic
Lydian
Smear
Phrase
10. Interval of less than a semitone
Dorian Mode
Aeolian
Microtone
Imitation by Inversion
11. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
MM
Pitch
B flat instruments
Friedrich Froebel
12. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Augmented
Rhythmic displacement
Melody
Augmentation
13. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Chromatic Scale
Augmentation
Smear
Cross Rhythm
14. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Fragmentation
Homophonic
Dalcroze
Portamento
15. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Retrograde
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
16. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Motif
Timbre
Polytonality
Arco
17. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Semitone
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Irregular rhythm
Blues
18. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Register
Kodaly Method
Diminution
Stretto
19. 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
Glissando
Mediant
Accent
20. Alto and tenor clefs
Locrian
C Clefs
Accompaniment
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
21. American String Teachers Assocation
Ionian
ASTA
5
Portamento
22. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Hocket
Ionian
Tonic Minor
Notes of Anticipation
23. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Bye - tones
Articulation
Rondo Form
Natural Minor Scale
24. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
ACDA
Pentatonic Scale
AOSA
Chromatic Scale
25. Made larger.
Melodic Minor Scale
Augmented
C Clefs
Figured Bass
26. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Atonal
Absolute Music
Pedal Point
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
27. F- F
Kodaly
Lydian
Motif
Supertonic
28. 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.
Interval
Passing Notes
Phrase
Rhythmic displacement
29. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Hocket
Programme Music
Harmonic Minor Scale
Stretto
30. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Absolute Music
Pedal Point
Homophonic
31. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Inverted Pedal
Real Sequence
Pedal Point
Passing Notes
32. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
French Horn Transposition
Riff
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Extension
33. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Harmonic Sequences
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Melodic Sequences
Accent
34. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
AOSA
Accent
Coda
35. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Leading Note
Real Sequence
Concert pitch
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
36. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Natural Minor Scale
Microtone
Development
Subdominant
37. A- A
Riff
Semitone
Imitation by Inversion
Aeolian
38. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Alberti Bass
Dalcroze
Rhythm
Dissonance
39. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Tempo
Semitone
ASTA
Imperfect Cadence
40. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Absolute Music
Accent
Submediant
Kodaly Method
41. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Melodic Minor Scale
Polyphonic
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
42. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Alto Clef
Repetition
Chromatic Scale
Dominant
43. 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.
Imitation
Cor Anglais Transposition
Coda
Alberti Bass
44. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Rhythmic Imitation
Tonal Sequence
ASCAP
Tenor
45. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Ternary Form
Bye - tones
Leading Note
Introduction
46. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Dalcroze
Arco
B flat Bass Transposition
Imitation by Inversion
47. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Comenius
Tempo
Phrygian
Harmonic
48. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Imitation
Blues
Diminution
Phrygian
49. General music is required until grade...
8
Mixolydian
Kodaly Method
Dalcroze
50. Glissando in vocal music
Inversion
Riff
Portamento
Antiphonal