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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






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






3. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






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






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






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






7. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






8. Without key center






9. I - V ii - V IV - V






10. Combination of aggreable tones.






11. Glissando in vocal music






12. E- E






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






14. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






15. Journal of Research for Music Education






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






17. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






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






19. 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.






20. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






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






22. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






23. Made larger.






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






25. 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.






26. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






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






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






29. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






30. An unessential note that falls on the beat






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






32. Background support for a melody.






33. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.






34. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






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






36. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






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






38. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






39. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






40. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






41. Organization of musical notes in time.






42. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






43. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






44. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






45. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






46. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






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






48. IV - I






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






50. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.