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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Pick up bar.
Rhythm
Timbre
Mediant
Anacrusis
2. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Harmonic Minor Scale
JRME
Dalcroze
Riff
3. 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.
Chromatic
Interval
Pulse
Figured Bass
4. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Augmented
Motif
Arpeggio
Augmentation
5. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
B flat instruments
Syncopation
Contrary motion
Bye - tones
6. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Phrase
Fanfare
Irregular rhythm
Ostinato
7. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Imitation
Retrograde
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Dominant
8. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Tenor
Harmonic
Leading Note
Mediant
9. Between 3/4 and 7/8
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Major Scale Semitones
Harmonic Minor Scale
Primary Triads
10. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Imitation by Inversion
Passing Notes
Monophonic
Dominant
11. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Augmented
Imperfect Cadence
ACDA
12. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Kodaly Method
Rubato
Aeolian
Stretto
13. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Programme Music
Absolute Music
Chromatic
14. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Harmonic Sequences
Motif
Contrary motion
Countermelody
15. E- E
Diminution
Texture
Arpeggio
Phrygian
16. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Whole Tone Scale
Tenor Clef
Atonal
Five finger exercise
17. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Rhythm
Relative (Major/Minor)
Fanfare
18. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Pulse
Arco
Harmonic Minor Scale
Dalcroze
19. Interval of less than a semitone
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Microtone
Relative (Major/Minor)
MM
20. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Concert pitch
Tonic
Figured Bass
21. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Rhythmic Imitation
Monophonic
Tempo
Tonic
22. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Consonance
Supertonic
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Auxiliary Notes
23. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Coda
Pentatonic Scale
Harmonic Sequences
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
24. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
B flat instruments
Augmentation
Dominant
25. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Bassoon
Repetition
Semitone
Irregular rhythm
26. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Introduction
Rhythmic displacement
A instruments
Tonic
27. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Notes of Anticipation
Natural Minor Scale
Arco
28. 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.
Pedal Point
Inversion
Canon
Chromatic Scale
29. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Mediant
Chromatic Scale
Perfect Cadence
5%
30. Consists entirely of whole steps.
ASTA
Whole Tone Scale
Harmonic Sequences
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
31. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Tonality
Diminished
Harmonic Minor Scale
32. 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.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Cross Rhythm
Phrase
Inverted Pedal
33. Made smaller.
Diminished
Lydian
Binary form
Hocket
34. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
ABA
Friedrich Froebel
Five finger exercise
Imitation by Inversion
35. Combination of aggreable tones.
Major Scale Semitones
Inversions of chords
Consonance
Unrelated Chord
36. Made larger.
Natural Minor Scale
Alto Clef
Bare chord
Augmented
37. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Diminished
Bare chord
Dalcroze
Locrian
38. Glissando in vocal music
Five finger exercise
C Clefs
Leading Note
Portamento
39. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Sequence
Binary form
Articulation
Pull off
40. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Augmented
JRME
Tonic Minor
Ternary Form
41. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Locrian
Stretto
Register
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
42. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Timbre
Pitch
Pull off
Appoggiaturas
43. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
C Clefs
Kodaly Method
Five finger exercise
Phrase
44. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Rubato
Motif
B flat instruments
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
45. 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.
Kodaly Method
5%
Accompaniment
Glissando
46. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Bennet Reimer
Aeolian
Note that is transposing figured around
Blues
47. Without key center
Diminution
Whole Tone Scale
Atonal
Accompaniment
48. Distance between any two notes
Glissando
Interval
Appoggiaturas
Timbre
49. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Glissando
Augmentation
Imitation by Inversion
Tenor Clef
50. A- A
Aeolian
Mixolydian
5%
Augmentation