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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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performing-arts
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1. Maelzel's Metronome
Interrupted Cadence
Accented Passing Note
Imperfect Cadence
MM
2. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
B flat instruments
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Plagal Cadence
Pulse
3. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Extension
Retrograde
Appoggiaturas
4. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Accented Passing Note
Rhythm
Ternary Form
5. Occur in all parts.
Harmonic Sequences
Development
Dominant
Tonic
6. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
B flat Bass Transposition
Interval
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Perfect Cadence
7. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Lydian
Tonic Minor
8
Enharmonic
8. Distance between any two notes
Rhythm
Semitone
Interval
Register
9. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Rubato
Development
Introduction
Homophonic
10. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Timbre
Unrelated Chord
ABA
Pull off
11. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Stretto
Atonal
Subdominant
Pull off
12. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Accompaniment
Tenor Clef
Melody
Friedrich Froebel
13. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
Diminution
Whole Tone Scale
Fragmentation
14. General music is required until grade...
Dalcroze
8
Aeolian
Binary form
15. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Bassoon
Dalcroze
Binary form
Cross Rhythm
16. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Submediant
Tonal Sequence
Perfect Cadence
French Horn Transposition
17. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Ionian
Cadence
Accidentals
18. 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.
Consonance
Phrase
Alberti Bass
Glissando
19. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
Timbre
Interval
Tempo
20. 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.
Supertonic
Rubato
Kodaly Method
Hammer on
21. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Diminished
Programme Music
Relative (Major/Minor)
Concert pitch
22. American Bandmaster's Association
Melodic Minor Scale
Aeolian
Timbre
ABA
23. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Melodic Minor Scale
Diminution
Countermelody
Mixolydian
24. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Augmented
Major Scale Semitones
Note that is transposing figured around
Passing Notes
25. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Inversion
Alto Clef
Ostinato
Consonance
26. Journal of Research for Music Education
Texture
Antiphonal
JRME
Monophonic
27. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
5%
Passing Notes
Anacrusis
28. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
JRME
Kodaly Method
Cross Rhythm
Relative (Major/Minor)
29. Tone color or quality of sound.
Binary form
Timbre
Unrelated Chord
Melodic Sequences
30. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Lydian
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Bye - tones
Tonic
31. Made smaller.
Diminished
Inverted Pedal
MM
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
32. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Interval
Lydian
Rhythm
B flat instruments
33. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Coda
Antiphonal
ASCAP
Imitation
34. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Arco
5
Passing Notes
Tonal Sequence
35. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Inverted Pedal
Cross Rhythm
Chromatic
Harmony
36. G- G
Primary Triads
Mixolydian
Harmonic Sequences
Tonic Minor
37. Without key center
Bare chord
Atonal
ACDA
Whole Tone Scale
38. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Contrary motion
Pentatonic Scale
Binary form
Tonic Minor
39. Background support for a melody.
Interval
Accompaniment
Mixolydian
Whole Tone Scale
40. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Blues
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
45
Bare chord
41. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pitch
Pulse
Antiphonal
Figured Bass
42. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Tenor
Accented Passing Note
Leading Note
Tonal Sequence
43. Highest natural adult male voice
Bare chord
Hammer on
Tenor
Relative (Major/Minor)
44. I - IV - V
Supertonic
Primary Triads
Bennet Reimer
Retrograde
45. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Alto Clef
Accent
Tenor Clef
Consonance
46. An annual budget is provided for the replacement of school - owned instruments that is equivalent to at least ______ of the current replacement value of the total inventory.
Tonic Minor
ASTA
Smear
5%
47. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
B flat instruments
Whole Tone Scale
Kodaly
48. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Submediant
ASCAP
Bye - tones
5%
49. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Whole Tone Scale
Accompaniment
Articulation
50. D- D
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale
C instruments
Dorian Mode