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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






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






3. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






4. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






5. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






6. Scale made entirely of semitones.






7. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






8. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






9. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.






10. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






11. Distance between any two notes






12. D- D






13. 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.






14. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






15. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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16. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






17. A- A






18. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






19. Tone color or quality of sound.






20. B- B






21. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






22. Made smaller.






23. Journal of Research for Music Education






24. Glissando in vocal music






25. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






26. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






27. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






28. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






29. 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.






30. Middle C






31. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






32. Glissando in jazz music






33. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






34. How high or low a note is.






35. 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.






36. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






37. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






38. 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.






39. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






40. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






41. Consists entirely of whole steps.






42. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






43. E- E






44. Alto and tenor clefs






45. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






46. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






47. Second tone in a major/minor scale






48. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






49. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






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