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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






2. D- D






3. Background support for a melody.






4. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






5. Pick up bar.






6. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






7. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






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






9. V - vi






10. Sounds minor seventh higher.






11. 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.






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






13. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






14. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






15. Maelzel's Metronome






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






17. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






18. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






19. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






20. Tone color or quality of sound.






21. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






22. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






23. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






24. 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.






25. V - I






26. 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.






27. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






28. A- A






29. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






30. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






31. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






32. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






33. Occur in all parts.






34. Organization of musical notes in time.






35. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






36. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






37. Made smaller.






38. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






39. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






40. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






41. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






42. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






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






44. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






45. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






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






47. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






48. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






49. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






50. Natural Pitch