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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. A- A






2. An unessential note that falls on the beat






3. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






4. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.






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






6. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






7. Combination of aggreable tones.






8. Between 3/4 and 7/8






9. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






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

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11. V - I






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






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






14. Background support for a melody.






15. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






16. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






17. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






18. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






19. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






20. 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.






21. Glissando in jazz music






22. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






23. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






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






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






26. Without key center






27. Chord without a third.






28. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






29. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






30. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






31. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






32. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






33. American String Teachers Assocation






34. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






35. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






36. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






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






38. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






39. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






40. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






41. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.






42. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






43. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






44. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






45. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






46. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






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






48. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






49. American Choral Director's Association






50. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves