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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Inversion
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Imitation by Inversion
45
2. V - vi
Passing Notes
Interrupted Cadence
Canon
Bennet Reimer
3. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Register
Kodaly
Tenor Clef
Coda
4. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Enharmonic
Dalcroze
Augmented
Rhythmic displacement
5. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Dissonance
Mixolydian
Harmonic Minor Scale
6. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Leading Note
Canon
Diminished
Cor Anglais Transposition
7. Occur in all parts.
Pulse
Concert pitch
Harmonic Sequences
Canon
8. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Atonal
Inverted Pedal
Ternary Form
9. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Irregular rhythm
Appoggiaturas
B flat instruments
ACDA
10. C- C
Ionian
Inversions of chords
Fragmentation
Appoggiaturas
11. Natural Pitch
Stretto
Phrygian
Accent
Natural Minor Scale
12. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
Friedrich Froebel
Monophonic
Binary form
13. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Interrupted Cadence
Harmony
Mixolydian
Subdominant
14. IV - I
Binary form
Syncopation
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Plagal Cadence
15. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
ASCAP
Imitation
Accent
Passing Notes
16. Made larger.
Accidentals
Bye - tones
Augmented
B flat instruments
17. 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.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Cross Rhythm
Alberti Bass
Instruments that transpose at the octave
18. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
B flat instruments
Melodic Sequences
Sequence
Diminution
19. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Bennet Reimer
Subdominant
Repetition
Phrygian
20. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
5%
Retrograde
Tenor Clef
45
21. Journal of Research for Music Education
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Mixolydian
Fragmentation
JRME
22. Distance between any two notes
Development
Interval
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Monophonic
23. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Tonic
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Leading Note
Atonal
24. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
45
Diminution
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Antiphonal
25. V - I
Retrograde
Bye - tones
Primary Triads
Perfect Cadence
26. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Blues
Consonance
A instruments
Kodaly Method
27. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Melodic Minor Scale
Dominant
Diminution
French Horn Transposition
28. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Cadence
Pentatonic Scale
Dissonance
Kodaly
29. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
MM
Natural Minor Scale
Real Sequence
30. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Ternary Form
Programme Music
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Reasons for Transposing
31. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Interval
Hammer on
Tonal Sequence
AOSA
32. 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.
Glissando
JRME
Comenius
5%
33. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Polytonality
Arco
Cadence
Rondo Form
34. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Homophonic
Tonal Sequence
Phrase
35. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Accented Passing Note
Auxiliary Notes
Dorian Mode
Introduction
36. F- F
Sequence
Antiphonal
Pedal Point
Lydian
37. Without key center
Submediant
Monophonic
Atonal
Irregular rhythm
38. 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.
B flat instruments
Melody
Arco
Fanfare
39. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Whole Tone Scale
Bye - tones
Supertonic
Absolute Music
40. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Antiphonal
Pentatonic Scale
Harmony
Tenor Clef
41. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Articulation
Rubato
Ostinato
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
42. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Natural Minor Scale
Phrygian
Rhythmic Imitation
Extension
43. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Dorian Mode
Real Sequence
Syncopation
Comenius
44. 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.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Melody
Phrase
Pull off
45. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
ASCAP
Tonic Minor
Microtone
Irregular rhythm
46. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Friedrich Froebel
Rondo Form
ASCAP
Tonic Minor
47. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Tonality
Real Sequence
Fragmentation
Relative (Major/Minor)
48. Combination of aggreable tones.
Rhythm
Consonance
ASCAP
8
49. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Rondo Form
ASTA
Homophonic
Harmonic
50. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Riff
Countermelody
8
Real Sequence