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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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1. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Unrelated Chord
Polyphonic
Pentatonic Scale
Homophonic
2. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Lydian
Mediant
Alto Clef
Bassoon
3. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Inversions of chords
Harmonic
Reasons for Transposing
Notes of Anticipation
4. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Locrian
Dominant
Absolute Music
Imitation
5. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
45
Microtone
Figured Bass
6. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Comenius
Reasons for Transposing
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Stretto
7. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Timbre
5%
Tonic Minor
Appoggiaturas
8. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Atonal
B flat instruments
Appoggiaturas
Bassoon
9. Natural Pitch
Introduction
Natural Minor Scale
Hammer on
Pentatonic Scale
10. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Unrelated Chord
Note that is transposing figured around
Development
Homophonic
11. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Appoggiaturas
Friedrich Froebel
Motif
Imitation by Inversion
12. Glissando in vocal music
Kodaly Method
Portamento
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Polyphonic
13. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Accent
Bassoon
Monophonic
14. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Inversion
Friedrich Froebel
Contrary motion
Semitone
15. E- E
Phrygian
Alberti Bass
Augmented
Canon
16. B- B
Rhythmic displacement
Cross Rhythm
Locrian
Programme Music
17. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Hammer on
Tempo
Melodic Minor Scale
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
18. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Five finger exercise
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Hocket
19. A- A
Inversion
Aeolian
Arco
Harmonic
20. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Five finger exercise
Diminution
Atonal
Imitation by Inversion
21. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Leading Note
Coda
Repetition
Supertonic
22. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Whole Tone Scale
Tempo
Auxiliary Notes
23. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
45
Pentatonic Scale
Tonic Minor
Countermelody
24. Another word for key.
Subdominant
Accidentals
French Horn Transposition
Tonality
25. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Rhythmic Imitation
Imitation by Inversion
Pull off
Inverted Pedal
26. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Coda
Real Sequence
Pull off
Ostinato
27. Without key center
Cadence
Contrary motion
Introduction
Atonal
28. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Fragmentation
Binary form
Bennet Reimer
Cross Rhythm
29. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Note that is transposing figured around
Fanfare
Glissando
Interrupted Cadence
30. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Imitation
Binary form
Hocket
Dissonance
31. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Glissando
Sequence
Harmonic Sequences
Stretto
32. F- F
Accompaniment
Lydian
Plagal Cadence
Alto Clef
33. 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.
Dalcroze
Ionian
5%
Kodaly Method
34. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Extension
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Augmentation
35. Journal of Research for Music Education
JRME
Rubato
ABA
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
36. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
Antiphonal
Extension
Whole Tone Scale
37. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Sequences
Mediant
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Pedal Point
38. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Tonal Sequence
Alberti Bass
Cross Rhythm
Tempo
39. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Programme Music
Sequence
Harmony
Ternary Form
40. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Plagal Cadence
Diminished
French Horn Transposition
Retrograde
41. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
45
Accent
Riff
Development
42. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Auxiliary Notes
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Kodaly Method
Tonic Minor
43. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Accent
Texture
Pentatonic Scale
Imitation by Inversion
44. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Rhythmic displacement
Hammer on
Imperfect Cadence
Melodic Sequences
45. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
5
8
Harmony
Bassoon
46. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Portamento
MM
Whole Tone Scale
Stretto
47. V - I
Antiphonal
Perfect Cadence
Relative (Major/Minor)
Polyphonic
48. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
JRME
Cadence
Semitone
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
49. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Accidentals
Articulation
Tonic
Kodaly
50. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Bye - tones
Motif
Fragmentation
Interval