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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Highest natural adult male voice
Locrian
A instruments
Tenor
Interrupted Cadence
2. 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.
C Clefs
Pulse
Motif
Repetition
3. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Accidentals
Mediant
Polytonality
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
4. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Primary Triads
Repetition
Monophonic
Imitation
5. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Harmonic
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Supertonic
Chromatic
6. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Fanfare
Canon
Kodaly Method
Accompaniment
7. How high or low a note is.
Pitch
8
Register
Fanfare
8. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
Alberti Bass
Appoggiaturas
Imitation
9. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Tempo
Tonic
Pulse
Major Scale Semitones
10. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
ASTA
Rhythmic displacement
Motif
Fragmentation
11. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.
Lydian
JRME
ACDA
Alberti Bass
12. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
MM
Articulation
Melodic Minor Scale
13. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
Harmonic Minor Scale
Melodic Sequences
B flat instruments
14. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Accented Passing Note
Stretto
5
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
15. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
B flat instruments
Inverted Pedal
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
AOSA
16. 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.
Programme Music
Kodaly
Locrian
5%
17. Combination of aggreable tones.
Repetition
Accent
Dominant
Consonance
18. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Comenius
Dalcroze
Chromatic
Syncopation
19. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cross Rhythm
Accent
ASTA
Cadence
20. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Comenius
Tonic Minor
Major Scale Semitones
Ostinato
21. Another word for key.
Rondo Form
Tonality
A instruments
Auxiliary Notes
22. IV - I
Bennet Reimer
MM
Plagal Cadence
Programme Music
23. I - V ii - V IV - V
Imperfect Cadence
Note that is transposing figured around
ABA
ASTA
24. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Appoggiaturas
Repetition
Accidentals
Countermelody
25. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Bassoon
Major Scale Semitones
Hocket
Polyphonic
26. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Monophonic
Extension
B flat Bass Transposition
Coda
27. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Tonic
B flat instruments
Aeolian
Countermelody
28. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Comenius
Interval
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Inversions of chords
29. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Tonic
Coda
Dorian Mode
Inversions of chords
30. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Homophonic
Notes of Anticipation
Dorian Mode
Melodic Sequences
31. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Phrygian
Comenius
Tonal Sequence
Fragmentation
32. Without key center
Dissonance
Register
Atonal
Absolute Music
33. Middle C
ASCAP
Alberti Bass
Augmented
Note that is transposing figured around
34. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Dalcroze
ASTA
Pentatonic Scale
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
35. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Extension
Appoggiaturas
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Inversions of chords
36. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Rhythm
Submediant
Whole Tone Scale
Harmony
37. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Consonance
Melodic Sequences
B flat Bass Transposition
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
38. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
5
Polytonality
Development
Retrograde
39. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Portamento
Polytonality
Diminished
Inverted Pedal
40. Interval of less than a semitone
ASCAP
Microtone
Register
Development
41. D- D
Notes of Anticipation
Dorian Mode
Aeolian
Dominant
42. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Rhythmic displacement
Rhythm
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Hammer on
43. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Inversion
Harmony
Antiphonal
Primary Triads
44. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Consonance
Concert pitch
Syncopation
Passing Notes
45. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Unrelated Chord
Introduction
Irregular rhythm
Ionian
46. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Harmonic
Augmentation
Locrian
Reasons for Transposing
47. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Bye - tones
Chromatic
48. Background support for a melody.
Programme Music
Accompaniment
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Articulation
49. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Major Scale Semitones
Dorian Mode
Comenius
Whole Tone Scale
50. V - vi
Alto Clef
Interrupted Cadence
Passing Notes
Bye - tones