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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






2. 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.






3. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






4. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line






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






6. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






7. 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.






8. Organization of musical notes in time.






9. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.






10. 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.






11. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






12. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






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






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






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






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






17. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






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






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






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






21. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






22. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.






23. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






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






25. IV - I






26. V - I






27. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






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






29. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






30. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






31. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






32. American Choral Director's Association






33. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






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






35. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






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






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






38. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






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






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






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






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






43. Occur in all parts.






44. V - vi






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






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






47. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.






48. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






49. Another word for key.






50. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)