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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Natural Minor Scale
Harmonic Minor Scale
Tonal Sequence
2. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Notes of Anticipation
Texture
Repetition
Kodaly Method
3. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Tenor
Atonal
Arpeggio
Binary form
4. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Alto Clef
Cross Rhythm
Five finger exercise
5
5. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Leading Note
Cadence
Ternary Form
Perfect Cadence
6. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Blues
Alto Clef
Development
Interval
7. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Supertonic
Interrupted Cadence
Stretto
Dorian Mode
8. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Notes of Anticipation
Canon
Passing Notes
Ternary Form
9. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Passing Notes
B flat Bass Transposition
Subdominant
10. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
B flat instruments
Chromatic Scale
Alberti Bass
11. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Note that is transposing figured around
Accent
Accidentals
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
12. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
Mixolydian
Microtone
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
13. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Subdominant
Arpeggio
A instruments
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
14. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
45
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Notes of Anticipation
Cadence
15. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Programme Music
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Sequence
16. Pick up bar.
Microtone
Leading Note
Anacrusis
Figured Bass
17. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Figured Bass
Pentatonic Scale
Alto Clef
ASCAP
18. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
B flat Bass Transposition
C instruments
Chromatic Scale
Kodaly
19. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Glissando
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Tonic
Five finger exercise
20. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Extension
A instruments
Repetition
Monophonic
21. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Primary Triads
Introduction
Accompaniment
Supertonic
22. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Arpeggio
Imitation by Inversion
C instruments
Retrograde
23. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Unrelated Chord
Inversion
Pull off
Relative (Major/Minor)
24. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Tonal Sequence
Hammer on
Comenius
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
25. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
ASCAP
Ostinato
Pitch
Cor Anglais Transposition
26. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Imitation by Inversion
Monophonic
Pentatonic Scale
Lydian
27. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Arpeggio
Comenius
A instruments
Bye - tones
28. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Submediant
Cross Rhythm
Antiphonal
Dissonance
29. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Harmonic
Concert pitch
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
30. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Tempo
Pull off
Rubato
Cor Anglais Transposition
31. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Bassoon
Motif
Rubato
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
32. I - IV - V
Interval
Primary Triads
Ternary Form
Submediant
33. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Melodic Minor Scale
Interrupted Cadence
Microtone
Accent
34. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Glissando
Bye - tones
Phrygian
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
35. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Leading Note
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Real Sequence
Bennet Reimer
36. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
French Horn Transposition
Dominant
Homophonic
37. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Riff
Harmonic Sequences
Relative (Major/Minor)
Leading Note
38. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Submediant
8
Tonic Minor
Interrupted Cadence
39. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
Augmented
Pedal Point
Imitation by Inversion
40. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Accidentals
Augmented
Auxiliary Notes
41. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Imitation by Inversion
Bassoon
Bennet Reimer
Antiphonal
42. Alto and tenor clefs
Inversion
C Clefs
Imitation by Inversion
Friedrich Froebel
43. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Cross Rhythm
Pedal Point
5
Homophonic
44. E- E
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Bassoon
Phrygian
Five finger exercise
45. 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.
C Clefs
Imperfect Cadence
Imitation
Fanfare
46. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Dominant
Concert pitch
Leading Note
47. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
MM
45
C Clefs
48. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
A instruments
B flat instruments
Real Sequence
Auxiliary Notes
49. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
45
Fanfare
Development
Instruments that transpose at the octave
50. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
French Horn Transposition
Primary Triads
Kodaly
Five finger exercise
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