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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Without key center






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






8. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






9. Chord without a third.






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






11. V - I






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






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






14. Consists entirely of whole steps.






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






16. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






17. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






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






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






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






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






22. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






23. Another word for key.






24. G- G






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






26. General music is required until grade...






27. 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.






28. A- A






29. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






30. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






31. Background support for a melody.






32. American String Teachers Assocation






33. I - V ii - V IV - V






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






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






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






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






38. Combination of aggreable tones.






39. Middle C






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






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






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






43. Natural Pitch






44. Musical announcement played on brass instruments before the arrival of an important person. Usually played on trumpets and built from the notes of one major triad.






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






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






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






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






49. Third tone in a major or minor scale






50. Bars of music before the main tune begins.