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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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performing-arts
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1. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Notes of Anticipation
Auxiliary Notes
Tonic
Pull off
2. Background support for a melody.
Accent
Accompaniment
Tenor Clef
Antiphonal
3. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Contrary motion
Melody
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Pentatonic Scale
4. Organization of musical notes in time.
Tonality
Alberti Bass
Rhythm
Enharmonic
5. Pick up bar.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Dalcroze
Anacrusis
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
6. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Pitch
Enharmonic
Tenor
Real Sequence
7. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
5
Pull off
Pedal Point
Bassoon
8. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
ACDA
Inverted Pedal
Polyphonic
Extension
9. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Interval
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Inversions of chords
Riff
10. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Harmonic Sequences
Arpeggio
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Unrelated Chord
11. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Melodic Sequences
Auxiliary Notes
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Accented Passing Note
12. I - V ii - V IV - V
Accompaniment
Alberti Bass
Auxiliary Notes
Imperfect Cadence
13. Alto and tenor clefs
ABA
Concert pitch
C Clefs
B flat Bass Transposition
14. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Reasons for Transposing
Augmentation
Locrian
15. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Tenor
Relative (Major/Minor)
Imitation
Extension
16. Journal of Research for Music Education
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
JRME
Texture
Rhythmic displacement
17. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Melody
Five finger exercise
B flat instruments
Binary form
18. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
ABA
Sequence
AOSA
19. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Pentatonic Scale
Passing Notes
Accented Passing Note
ASTA
20. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Tempo
Canon
Accidentals
Alberti Bass
21. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Register
Augmentation
B flat instruments
Real Sequence
22. C- C
Imperfect Cadence
Cross Rhythm
Bassoon
Ionian
23. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
5
Countermelody
Tonal Sequence
Inverted Pedal
24. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Pentatonic Scale
Atonal
C instruments
Lydian
25. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Kodaly Method
Interrupted Cadence
Cross Rhythm
26. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Melody
AOSA
Tonic
ASCAP
27. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Reasons for Transposing
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Comenius
Irregular rhythm
28. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
5%
Figured Bass
29. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Pull off
Register
Antiphonal
Sequence
30. 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.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Melody
Rubato
31. Sounds minor seventh higher.
C Clefs
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Atonal
Submediant
32. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Inversion
Bare chord
Lydian
Natural Minor Scale
33. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
Microtone
Retrograde
Locrian
34. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Rubato
Ionian
Extension
35. American Choral Director's Association
Tonic Minor
Homophonic
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
ACDA
36. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
45
Dissonance
Hammer on
Perfect Cadence
37. E- E
Stretto
Melodic Minor Scale
B flat instruments
Phrygian
38. G- G
Mixolydian
Harmony
Comenius
Bye - tones
39. American String Teachers Assocation
ASTA
Texture
Melodic Sequences
8
40. 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.
Glissando
Ternary Form
AOSA
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
41. Made larger.
Coda
Antiphonal
Augmented
French Horn Transposition
42. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Antiphonal
Accented Passing Note
Auxiliary Notes
Rhythm
43. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Tenor Clef
Interval
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Bassoon
44. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Antiphonal
Submediant
Ternary Form
Irregular rhythm
45. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Passing Notes
Appoggiaturas
Harmonic
Harmonic Minor Scale
46. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Appoggiaturas
Extension
Melodic Sequences
Inverted Pedal
47. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Tenor Clef
Polyphonic
Friedrich Froebel
Chromatic
48. 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.
Extension
Primary Triads
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Alberti Bass
49. B- B
5
Bare chord
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Locrian
50. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Augmentation
Auxiliary Notes
Instruments that transpose at the octave