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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






2. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






3. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






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






5. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






6. V - vi






7. G- G






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






9. IV - I






10. 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.






11. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






12. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






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






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






15. I - V ii - V IV - V






16. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






17. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






18. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






19. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






20. American String Teachers Assocation






21. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






22. 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.






23. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






24. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






25. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






26. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






27. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






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






29. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






30. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






31. Maelzel's Metronome






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






33. Interval of less than a semitone






34. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






36. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






37. Occur in all parts.






38. Another word for key.






39. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






40. How high or low a note is.






41. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. B- B






47. 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.






48. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






49. Sounds a minor third higher.






50. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line