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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
ASTA
Figured Bass
2. 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.
Phrygian
Rhythmic displacement
Riff
Motif
3. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Harmonic Minor Scale
Polytonality
Kodaly
Imperfect Cadence
4. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Inversion
Imitation
Accidentals
C Clefs
5. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Articulation
Semitone
Harmonic
Cross Rhythm
6. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Supertonic
Fragmentation
Subdominant
Alto Clef
7. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Bye - tones
Development
Comenius
Rondo Form
8. V - vi
Interrupted Cadence
Pedal Point
Contrary motion
Aeolian
9. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
5
Diminution
Sequence
Locrian
10. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Dissonance
Whole Tone Scale
Ostinato
11. A- A
Aeolian
Chromatic
Consonance
B flat Bass Transposition
12. American String Teachers Assocation
Hammer on
Kodaly Method
ASTA
Bare chord
13. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
B flat instruments
Mixolydian
Accidentals
French Horn Transposition
14. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Locrian
French Horn Transposition
Polyphonic
5
15. 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.
MM
Rhythmic Imitation
Rubato
Phrase
16. I - V ii - V IV - V
Arpeggio
Perfect Cadence
Imperfect Cadence
Natural Minor Scale
17. How high or low a note is.
Articulation
Ionian
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Pitch
18. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Reasons for Transposing
Whole Tone Scale
Ostinato
Notes of Anticipation
19. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Fanfare
Imitation by Inversion
Hocket
Whole Tone Scale
20. Glissando in jazz music
Arco
Smear
Timbre
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
21. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Timbre
Dissonance
Ternary Form
22. 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.
Concert pitch
Cadence
Fanfare
Arpeggio
23. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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24. 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.
Canon
Figured Bass
Lydian
Passing Notes
25. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Portamento
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Inversion
Major Scale Semitones
26. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Texture
Dalcroze
Antiphonal
Semitone
27. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.
Hocket
Microtone
Atonal
Rubato
28. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Tonic Minor
C instruments
Bassoon
Absolute Music
29. Made larger.
Sequence
Augmented
Microtone
Extension
30. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Passing Notes
Dalcroze
Cor Anglais Transposition
Polyphonic
31. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Ternary Form
Motif
Tenor
Extension
32. Glissando in vocal music
Primary Triads
Portamento
Figured Bass
Melodic Minor Scale
33. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Riff
Pull off
Note that is transposing figured around
34. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Accented Passing Note
Inversion
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
ASCAP
35. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Supertonic
Pulse
Enharmonic
Dalcroze
36. Without key center
Polyphonic
Tonality
Atonal
Passing Notes
37. Alto and tenor clefs
Irregular rhythm
Contrary motion
B flat Bass Transposition
C Clefs
38. Another word for key.
C instruments
Five finger exercise
Texture
Tonality
39. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Tonic Minor
Diminished
Harmony
Kodaly
40. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Consonance
ASTA
Melody
Dorian Mode
41. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Smear
Dorian Mode
Introduction
Pull off
42. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Tenor
Melody
B flat Bass Transposition
ACDA
43. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Pull off
Primary Triads
Semitone
Phrygian
44. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
Interval
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Microtone
45. An annual budget is provided for the replacement of school - owned instruments that is equivalent to at least ______ of the current replacement value of the total inventory.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Chromatic
Augmentation
5%
46. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Irregular rhythm
Homophonic
Subdominant
Repetition
47. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Concert pitch
Alto Clef
Monophonic
Atonal
48. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Bye - tones
Tonic Minor
Reasons for Transposing
Chromatic
49. Background support for a melody.
Absolute Music
Accompaniment
Articulation
A instruments
50. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Pedal Point
Irregular rhythm
Enharmonic
Countermelody