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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






3. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






4. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






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






6. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






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






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






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






10. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






11. Distance between any two notes






12. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






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






14. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






15. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






16. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






17. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






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






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. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






21. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






22. Another word for key.






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






24. B- B






25. D- D






26. Pick up bar.






27. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






28. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






29. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






30. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






31. 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.






32. V - I






33. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






34. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






35. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






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






37. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






38. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






39. F- F






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






41. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






42. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






43. Chord without a third.






44. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






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






46. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






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






48. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






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






50. 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.







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