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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Unrelated Chord
Dominant
B flat instruments
Augmentation
2. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Kodaly
Rondo Form
Tenor Clef
Smear
3. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Bassoon
5
Syncopation
Cadence
4. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Accidentals
A instruments
Accompaniment
Contrary motion
5. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
5
Portamento
B flat instruments
Hammer on
6. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
ACDA
Antiphonal
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
B flat instruments
7. 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.
Bare chord
Chromatic Scale
Harmonic Minor Scale
Figured Bass
8. Interval of less than a semitone
Unrelated Chord
Natural Minor Scale
Microtone
Relative (Major/Minor)
9. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Harmonic Minor Scale
Irregular rhythm
Phrygian
Inverted Pedal
10. Made smaller.
Locrian
5%
Coda
Diminished
11. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Imitation
Rhythmic Imitation
Consonance
Pull off
12. 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
ASTA
Augmentation
Passing Notes
13. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Smear
Phrase
Tempo
Glissando
14. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Inversions of chords
Inverted Pedal
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Fragmentation
15. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Melodic Minor Scale
Natural Minor Scale
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Locrian
16. How high or low a note is.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Pitch
Bennet Reimer
Unrelated Chord
17. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Fanfare
Dalcroze
Melodic Sequences
Mediant
18. Made larger.
Tenor Clef
Pulse
Augmented
Blues
19. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Monophonic
Coda
Imitation
ABA
20. Journal of Research for Music Education
B flat instruments
JRME
Notes of Anticipation
Supertonic
21. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Tonic Minor
Semitone
B flat Bass Transposition
Absolute Music
22. F- F
Atonal
Lydian
Phrygian
Semitone
23. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Homophonic
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Cross Rhythm
Primary Triads
24. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
ABA
Ostinato
Fanfare
8
25. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Alberti Bass
French Horn Transposition
Pedal Point
Accidentals
26. American Bandmaster's Association
Sequence
ABA
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale
27. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Whole Tone Scale
ASTA
Repetition
Microtone
28. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
Pitch
MM
Accompaniment
29. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Irregular rhythm
Rhythmic Imitation
Melody
Reasons for Transposing
30. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Melodic Minor Scale
Polytonality
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Locrian
31. Occur in all parts.
Mixolydian
Harmonic Sequences
Timbre
Harmonic Minor Scale
32. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Articulation
Ternary Form
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Augmentation
33. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Diminution
B flat instruments
Harmony
Notes of Anticipation
34. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Appoggiaturas
Melodic Minor Scale
Coda
Anacrusis
35. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Imitation by Inversion
Rhythmic displacement
Rhythm
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
36. G- G
Reasons for Transposing
Timbre
Consonance
Mixolydian
37. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Comenius
Leading Note
Harmonic Minor Scale
Consonance
38. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Atonal
Absolute Music
ASTA
Imitation by Inversion
39. E- E
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Monophonic
Binary form
Phrygian
40. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Monophonic
Ternary Form
Blues
Canon
41. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Motif
Rubato
Five finger exercise
42. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Motif
Programme Music
Hocket
Retrograde
43. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
8
ACDA
MM
44. Organization of musical notes in time.
Diminished
Rhythm
Bassoon
Stretto
45. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Mixolydian
Subdominant
C instruments
Diminished
46. Maelzel's Metronome
Note that is transposing figured around
Kodaly Method
MM
Passing Notes
47. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Polyphonic
5%
Bassoon
Bye - tones
48. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Plagal Cadence
Tenor
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
49. Without key center
Atonal
Enharmonic
Chromatic
Appoggiaturas
50. V - vi
Ostinato
Interrupted Cadence
Bare chord
Phrase