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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






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






3. Background support for a melody.






4. An unessential note that falls on the beat






5. Interval of less than a semitone






6. Second tone in a major/minor scale






7. Chord without a third.






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






9. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






10. Sounds minor seventh higher.






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






12. Glissando in vocal music






13. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






14. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






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






16. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






17. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.






18. Consists entirely of whole steps.






19. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






20. V - vi






21. 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.






22. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)






23. F- F






24. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






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






26. Made smaller.






27. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






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






29. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






30. Maelzel's Metronome






31. Middle C






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






33. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






34. American String Teachers Assocation






35. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






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






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






38. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






39. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






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






41. C- C






42. Glissando in jazz music






43. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






44. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






45. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






46. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






47. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.






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






49. 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.






50. Alto and tenor clefs







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