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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Concert pitch
Submediant
Ternary Form
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
2. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Smear
Accent
Timbre
Subdominant
3. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Stretto
Inversions of chords
Semitone
Aeolian
4. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Supertonic
B flat Bass Transposition
Accidentals
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
5. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Programme Music
Sequence
Glissando
Concert pitch
6. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Aeolian
Chromatic
Auxiliary Notes
7. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Concert pitch
Friedrich Froebel
Figured Bass
Articulation
8. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Whole Tone Scale
Figured Bass
Absolute Music
Interrupted Cadence
9. Background support for a melody.
Accompaniment
Concert pitch
Accent
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
10. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
ASCAP
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Enharmonic
Inversion
11. American Choral Director's Association
Relative (Major/Minor)
ACDA
Mediant
B flat instruments
12. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Leading Note
Submediant
Kodaly
Bye - tones
13. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Syncopation
Timbre
Comenius
Submediant
14. 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.
Concert pitch
Harmonic Minor Scale
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Alberti Bass
15. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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16. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Imitation
Harmony
B flat instruments
Phrygian
17. Middle C
Anacrusis
Note that is transposing figured around
Inversions of chords
Reasons for Transposing
18. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Interrupted Cadence
Unrelated Chord
Register
Note that is transposing figured around
19. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Friedrich Froebel
Kodaly Method
Submediant
Melodic Sequences
20. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Sequence
Absolute Music
Melodic Sequences
ASCAP
21. A- A
Submediant
Dorian Mode
Contrary motion
Aeolian
22. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Plagal Cadence
Retrograde
Tempo
JRME
23. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Consonance
Accidentals
Concert pitch
Tonic
24. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Polyphonic
Leading Note
Pitch
Subdominant
25. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Major Scale Semitones
Leading Note
Augmentation
Dorian Mode
26. B- B
Melodic Sequences
Timbre
Locrian
Augmented
27. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Accented Passing Note
Stretto
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Riff
28. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Interrupted Cadence
Motif
Concert pitch
29. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Motif
Pitch
Fragmentation
Real Sequence
30. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Submediant
Atonal
Fragmentation
Major Scale Semitones
31. Organization of musical notes in time.
MM
Concert pitch
Rhythm
Tonic Minor
32. Interval of less than a semitone
Primary Triads
B flat instruments
Microtone
Appoggiaturas
33. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Microtone
Phrygian
Coda
Polyphonic
34. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Atonal
Homophonic
Register
Sequence
35. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Atonal
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Imitation by Inversion
ASCAP
36. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
Tonality
Cor Anglais Transposition
Instruments that transpose at the octave
37. 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.
Phrase
Subdominant
French Horn Transposition
Microtone
38. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Chromatic Scale
Ostinato
Pentatonic Scale
Kodaly Method
39. Alto and tenor clefs
Tenor
Tonal Sequence
C Clefs
Accidentals
40. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Augmented
Accompaniment
Cadence
Subdominant
41. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Cross Rhythm
Supertonic
Cadence
Melodic Minor Scale
42. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Polytonality
Accent
Dominant
43. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Riff
Reasons for Transposing
Antiphonal
Mediant
44. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Smear
Hocket
Alto Clef
Microtone
45. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Arpeggio
B flat instruments
Sequence
Subdominant
46. Another word for key.
Tonality
A instruments
Tonic Minor
Mixolydian
47. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Chromatic
Cross Rhythm
Cadence
Tonal Sequence
48. 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.
Imitation
Pedal Point
AOSA
Bennet Reimer
49. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Inversion
Sequence
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Subdominant
50. Highest natural adult male voice
Rondo Form
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Microtone
Tenor