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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. 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.
Pentatonic Scale
Hocket
Figured Bass
Pull off
2. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Rhythmic displacement
Tempo
Harmonic
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
3. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Pitch
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Accent
4. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Alberti Bass
Supertonic
Tonal Sequence
Major Scale Semitones
5. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Phrase
Articulation
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
6. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Accidentals
8
Countermelody
Accented Passing Note
7. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
Canon
Locrian
Ternary Form
8. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Rhythmic Imitation
Dalcroze
Semitone
Lydian
9. 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.
Alberti Bass
Cadence
MM
Mediant
10. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Accompaniment
Hammer on
Diminished
Harmonic Sequences
11. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Harmonic Sequences
Melody
Perfect Cadence
12. How high or low a note is.
Monophonic
Figured Bass
Accented Passing Note
Pitch
13. Middle C
Plagal Cadence
Homophonic
Retrograde
Note that is transposing figured around
14. Third tone in a major or minor scale
5
Real Sequence
Stretto
Mediant
15. V - vi
Primary Triads
Interrupted Cadence
Contrary motion
Polyphonic
16. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Rhythmic Imitation
Harmonic
Stretto
Atonal
17. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Hammer on
Accompaniment
Blues
Anacrusis
18. Highest natural adult male voice
Natural Minor Scale
Tenor
Interrupted Cadence
JRME
19. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Inverted Pedal
Diminution
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Imperfect Cadence
20. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Bennet Reimer
Alto Clef
Rubato
Harmonic Sequences
21. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Kodaly Method
Atonal
5%
Canon
22. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Appoggiaturas
Bye - tones
Inversions of chords
8
23. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
ASCAP
Cadence
Phrase
Bassoon
24. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Coda
Inverted Pedal
Development
Canon
25. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Harmonic Sequences
Appoggiaturas
Polytonality
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
26. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
B flat Bass Transposition
Friedrich Froebel
Interrupted Cadence
Tonic
27. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Friedrich Froebel
Mediant
Repetition
Glissando
28. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Coda
Enharmonic
Accented Passing Note
Inversions of chords
29. Another word for key.
Retrograde
Ostinato
Tonality
MM
30. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Accented Passing Note
Repetition
Irregular rhythm
31. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Augmentation
Harmonic
Harmony
Irregular rhythm
32. 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.
Alto Clef
Canon
French Horn Transposition
Phrase
33. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
French Horn Transposition
Irregular rhythm
Note that is transposing figured around
Diminished
34. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
ASTA
Tenor
Tonality
35. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Concert pitch
Irregular rhythm
French Horn Transposition
Microtone
36. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
B flat instruments
Tenor Clef
Harmonic Minor Scale
Accompaniment
37. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Accidentals
Texture
Five finger exercise
Kodaly
38. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Bye - tones
Accented Passing Note
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Articulation
39. Maelzel's Metronome
Riff
MM
Binary form
Articulation
40. Chord without a third.
MM
Augmented
Kodaly
Bare chord
41. Organization of musical notes in time.
Rhythm
Hocket
Real Sequence
Ostinato
42. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
Arpeggio
Enharmonic
Plagal Cadence
43. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Rhythmic displacement
Inverted Pedal
Ternary Form
Semitone
44. B- B
Cor Anglais Transposition
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Locrian
Polytonality
45. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Kodaly
Pitch
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
45
46. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.
Motif
B flat Bass Transposition
Stretto
Imitation by Inversion
47. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Mixolydian
Homophonic
Bennet Reimer
ASCAP
48. Pick up bar.
Canon
Cross Rhythm
Figured Bass
Anacrusis
49. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Dalcroze
ASCAP
Major Scale Semitones
45
50. Sounds a minor third higher.
Pedal Point
Lydian
Texture
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition