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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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2. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






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






4. V - I






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






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






7. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






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






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






10. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






11. Interval of less than a semitone






12. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






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






14. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






15. Without key center






16. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






17. Maelzel's Metronome






18. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.






19. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






20. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






21. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






22. Tone color or quality of sound.






23. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






24. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






25. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






26. General music is required until grade...






27. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






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






29. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






30. American Bandmaster's Association






31. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






32. I - IV - V






33. Combination of aggreable tones.






34. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






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






36. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.






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






38. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






39. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






40. Scale made entirely of semitones.






41. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






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






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






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






45. Consists entirely of whole steps.






46. Distance between any two notes






47. Third tone in a major or minor scale






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






49. Chord without a third.






50. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.