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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Appoggiaturas
Auxiliary Notes
Register
2. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Bye - tones
Irregular rhythm
Subdominant
Relative (Major/Minor)
3. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Auxiliary Notes
Accent
Pulse
Binary form
4. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Accent
Hocket
Bennet Reimer
Ionian
5. Background support for a melody.
Antiphonal
Accompaniment
Harmonic
Note that is transposing figured around
6. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
ABA
Irregular rhythm
Note that is transposing figured around
Binary form
7. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Syncopation
Melody
Pulse
Harmony
8. Tone color or quality of sound.
Ternary Form
Countermelody
B flat instruments
Timbre
9. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Tenor
Primary Triads
Pentatonic Scale
10. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
Natural Minor Scale
Concert pitch
Polyphonic
11. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Alberti Bass
Notes of Anticipation
Coda
Hammer on
12. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Microtone
Inverted Pedal
Arco
Absolute Music
13. V - I
Major Scale Semitones
Arco
Perfect Cadence
Polyphonic
14. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Tonality
Register
Articulation
Texture
15. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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16. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Whole Tone Scale
Inversion
Chromatic Scale
Coda
17. Combination of aggreable tones.
Accent
Accented Passing Note
Consonance
Diminution
18. I - IV - V
Unrelated Chord
Primary Triads
Tempo
Development
19. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Bare chord
Repetition
Real Sequence
Melodic Sequences
20. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Sequence
Augmented
Dissonance
Stretto
21. V - vi
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Interrupted Cadence
Canon
Timbre
22. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Harmony
Accented Passing Note
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Relative (Major/Minor)
23. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Accented Passing Note
Sequence
Auxiliary Notes
Harmonic Minor Scale
24. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Accented Passing Note
Tenor
Arco
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
25. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Absolute Music
Comenius
Polyphonic
Accented Passing Note
26. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Binary form
Kodaly
Cross Rhythm
Pull off
27. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Contrary motion
Alberti Bass
JRME
Tenor Clef
28. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Augmentation
Imitation by Inversion
Note that is transposing figured around
29. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Rondo Form
Dorian Mode
Lydian
30. Organization of musical notes in time.
Whole Tone Scale
Rhythm
Microtone
Retrograde
31. I - V ii - V IV - V
Bare chord
Imperfect Cadence
Homophonic
Accent
32. Without key center
Polyphonic
ABA
Atonal
Dalcroze
33. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Accidentals
Enharmonic
B flat Bass Transposition
Harmonic
34. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
A instruments
Harmonic Minor Scale
Unrelated Chord
Tonality
35. 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.
Pedal Point
Mediant
Tonic
Figured Bass
36. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Melody
Tonic Minor
Binary form
Accidentals
37. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Canon
Microtone
38. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Rondo Form
Hocket
Inverted Pedal
C Clefs
39. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Sequence
Alto Clef
Bare chord
Relative (Major/Minor)
40. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Register
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Appoggiaturas
Consonance
41. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Accented Passing Note
Enharmonic
Subdominant
Tenor
42. Made larger.
Major Scale Semitones
Kodaly
Bennet Reimer
Augmented
43. E- E
Development
Contrary motion
Phrygian
Leading Note
44. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
B flat instruments
8
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Cross Rhythm
45. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
5%
Dissonance
Locrian
Rhythmic displacement
46. G- G
Ternary Form
Appoggiaturas
Mixolydian
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
47. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Inverted Pedal
Repetition
Anacrusis
Lydian
48. B- B
Locrian
Ostinato
Mediant
Blues
49. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Figured Bass
Melodic Sequences
Stretto
50. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Bassoon
Dominant
Dalcroze
Hocket