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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
B flat instruments
C instruments
Hocket
Inversion
2. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
Rhythmic displacement
Harmonic
Semitone
3. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Harmonic Sequences
Bye - tones
Diminished
Blues
4. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Melody
Pull off
AOSA
Supertonic
5. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Irregular rhythm
Absolute Music
Accompaniment
Rhythm
6. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Ternary Form
Subdominant
Mixolydian
ASTA
7. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
ASTA
Leading Note
C instruments
B flat Bass Transposition
8. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Tenor
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Countermelody
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
9. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Hocket
Diminution
Concert pitch
B flat instruments
10. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Pentatonic Scale
45
Accidentals
Syncopation
11. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Bassoon
Harmonic
Consonance
Figured Bass
12. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Rondo Form
Anacrusis
AOSA
Accidentals
13. Highest natural adult male voice
Pull off
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Tenor
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
14. Tone color or quality of sound.
Aeolian
Dominant
Augmentation
Timbre
15. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Hammer on
Unrelated Chord
Arco
Contrary motion
16. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
Tenor Clef
5%
JRME
17. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Ionian
Chromatic Scale
Submediant
Rondo Form
18. A- A
Aeolian
Anacrusis
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Microtone
19. American Bandmaster's Association
Notes of Anticipation
ABA
Interrupted Cadence
Retrograde
20. IV - I
AOSA
A instruments
Plagal Cadence
Inversions of chords
21. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Monophonic
Comenius
Dalcroze
Polytonality
22. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Primary Triads
Auxiliary Notes
Irregular rhythm
Augmentation
23. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Glissando
Dalcroze
Polytonality
Subdominant
24. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Rhythmic displacement
Register
Passing Notes
Kodaly
25. Background support for a melody.
Accompaniment
Imitation
Polytonality
Unrelated Chord
26. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Tonic Minor
Semitone
Five finger exercise
Pulse
27. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Sequence
8
Pentatonic Scale
Development
28. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Notes of Anticipation
Microtone
Mixolydian
Tempo
29. 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.
Tenor
Fanfare
Microtone
Harmony
30. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Microtone
Irregular rhythm
Bare chord
Programme Music
31. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Lydian
Comenius
Real Sequence
Bennet Reimer
32. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
Inversions of chords
Plagal Cadence
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
33. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Antiphonal
Fragmentation
Irregular rhythm
Pulse
34. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Subdominant
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Rhythmic displacement
Introduction
35. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Diminished
Register
Tonic Minor
Cross Rhythm
36. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Auxiliary Notes
Sequence
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Perfect Cadence
37. 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.
Tonic
Pulse
Figured Bass
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
38. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Stretto
Texture
Bassoon
39. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Accidentals
Introduction
Rhythm
40. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Introduction
Mediant
Passing Notes
Extension
41. Organization of musical notes in time.
Dorian Mode
Rhythm
Pulse
Tempo
42. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Accented Passing Note
Comenius
Rhythm
C Clefs
43. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Tenor Clef
Hocket
Cor Anglais Transposition
Tonic
44. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Anacrusis
Register
Pedal Point
Retrograde
45. Chord without a third.
Inverted Pedal
Bare chord
MM
ASTA
46. Pick up bar.
B flat Bass Transposition
Anacrusis
Dalcroze
Melody
47. Sounds a minor third higher.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Tenor Clef
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Notes of Anticipation
48. D- D
Binary form
Dorian Mode
Mixolydian
Bassoon
49. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Notes of Anticipation
Tonic Minor
Accented Passing Note
Anacrusis
50. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Five finger exercise
Chromatic
Tonality
Accidentals