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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. 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.
5%
Perfect Cadence
Articulation
Mediant
2. Chord without a third.
Harmonic
Ostinato
Bare chord
C Clefs
3. Middle C
Aeolian
Note that is transposing figured around
Pull off
45
4. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Tonal Sequence
A instruments
Retrograde
5. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Timbre
Appoggiaturas
C instruments
Reasons for Transposing
6. Without key center
Plagal Cadence
Augmented
Alto Clef
Atonal
7. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
French Horn Transposition
Interval
Figured Bass
8. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Inverted Pedal
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Pentatonic Scale
Auxiliary Notes
9. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Submediant
Pedal Point
Lydian
Introduction
10. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
ABA
45
Augmented
Programme Music
11. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
B flat instruments
Note that is transposing figured around
B flat Bass Transposition
Inverted Pedal
12. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Motif
Note that is transposing figured around
Tenor Clef
Rhythmic displacement
13. 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
Rhythmic Imitation
Homophonic
Alberti Bass
14. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Bennet Reimer
Sequence
Concert pitch
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
15. Tone color or quality of sound.
AOSA
Mediant
Timbre
Ternary Form
16. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Reasons for Transposing
Irregular rhythm
Bennet Reimer
Cross Rhythm
17. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Rondo Form
Rhythm
Tenor
Passing Notes
18. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
C Clefs
Lydian
Canon
Bassoon
19. 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.
Atonal
Figured Bass
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Auxiliary Notes
20. I - V ii - V IV - V
Imperfect Cadence
Fanfare
Dissonance
Semitone
21. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Submediant
Reasons for Transposing
Cor Anglais Transposition
Relative (Major/Minor)
22. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Leading Note
A instruments
Melodic Minor Scale
Syncopation
23. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Unrelated Chord
Arco
Passing Notes
Subdominant
24. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Repetition
MM
Semitone
Rhythmic displacement
25. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pulse
Alto Clef
Monophonic
Imitation by Inversion
26. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Monophonic
Homophonic
Interrupted Cadence
C instruments
27. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Diminution
Articulation
Unrelated Chord
28. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Bye - tones
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Enharmonic
Coda
29. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Interval
Relative (Major/Minor)
Phrase
Dominant
30. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Friedrich Froebel
Appoggiaturas
Plagal Cadence
Dalcroze
31. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Fragmentation
Portamento
ABA
Canon
32. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Accented Passing Note
Stretto
Hocket
Kodaly
33. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Friedrich Froebel
Bare chord
Chromatic Scale
Interval
34. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Leading Note
Arco
Passing Notes
Accidentals
35. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Tonic
Rhythmic displacement
Alto Clef
Tenor Clef
36. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Locrian
Monophonic
Dalcroze
Irregular rhythm
37. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
ACDA
Accent
Pulse
Fanfare
38. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Retrograde
Dissonance
Tonality
39. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Locrian
Polytonality
Subdominant
Chromatic
40. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Real Sequence
Inversion
Semitone
ACDA
41. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Diminution
Countermelody
Binary form
Supertonic
42. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.
Pedal Point
Plagal Cadence
Lydian
B flat instruments
43. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Perfect Cadence
Ostinato
Contrary motion
Major Scale Semitones
44. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Enharmonic
Blues
Ternary Form
45. I - IV - V
Primary Triads
Monophonic
B flat Bass Transposition
French Horn Transposition
46. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Ionian
Irregular rhythm
5
47. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
ASCAP
Dominant
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
48. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Pentatonic Scale
Countermelody
Inverted Pedal
Auxiliary Notes
49. 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.
Homophonic
Glissando
C Clefs
Pitch
50. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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