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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Dorian Mode
Relative (Major/Minor)
Friedrich Froebel
Stretto
2. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Pentatonic Scale
C Clefs
Arpeggio
Blues
3. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Articulation
Rhythmic Imitation
Rhythm
4. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
ACDA
Arpeggio
B flat instruments
ASTA
5. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Phrase
B flat instruments
Syncopation
Inversions of chords
6. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
Appoggiaturas
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Hocket
7. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
Bassoon
Ionian
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
8. How high or low a note is.
Bassoon
Alberti Bass
Pitch
Bye - tones
9. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Absolute Music
Natural Minor Scale
Imperfect Cadence
Augmentation
10. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Antiphonal
Cross Rhythm
Accented Passing Note
8
11. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Pedal Point
ASCAP
Cadence
Cor Anglais Transposition
12. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Binary form
Fanfare
Rhythmic Imitation
Riff
13. Glissando in jazz music
French Horn Transposition
Smear
Blues
Inverted Pedal
14. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Relative (Major/Minor)
Ternary Form
Fragmentation
Retrograde
15. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Natural Minor Scale
Comenius
Coda
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
16. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Mixolydian
Sequence
Mediant
AOSA
17. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
45
Mediant
Major Scale Semitones
ASCAP
18. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Contrary motion
Programme Music
Bare chord
Binary form
19. Made larger.
Auxiliary Notes
Mediant
Augmented
Chromatic
20. IV - I
Plagal Cadence
Accented Passing Note
Homophonic
Retrograde
21. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
5%
MM
Inversions of chords
5
22. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Reasons for Transposing
Anacrusis
Development
Canon
23. Sounds a minor third higher.
Inversion
Bare chord
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
5%
24. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Hammer on
Appoggiaturas
Figured Bass
Imitation by Inversion
25. 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.
Tonal Sequence
Tonality
Figured Bass
Irregular rhythm
26. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Passing Notes
Dalcroze
Ionian
B flat instruments
27. Maelzel's Metronome
Leading Note
Polytonality
MM
Natural Minor Scale
28. C- C
Ionian
Auxiliary Notes
Absolute Music
Harmonic Minor Scale
29. Natural Pitch
Harmonic Minor Scale
Augmentation
Passing Notes
Natural Minor Scale
30. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
5%
Bassoon
Hammer on
Melodic Minor Scale
31. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Submediant
Polyphonic
Introduction
Whole Tone Scale
32. Alto and tenor clefs
Introduction
C Clefs
A instruments
5%
33. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Introduction
Tonality
Retrograde
Rondo Form
34. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.
Note that is transposing figured around
Pedal Point
Chromatic
Hammer on
35. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Imitation
Supertonic
Harmonic
Inverted Pedal
36. F- F
Programme Music
Mixolydian
Lydian
Fragmentation
37. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Comenius
Enharmonic
Tonic Minor
Figured Bass
38. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Pulse
Bye - tones
Plagal Cadence
Harmonic
39. Tone color or quality of sound.
Figured Bass
Five finger exercise
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Timbre
40. 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.
Blues
Bennet Reimer
Comenius
Motif
41. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Imitation by Inversion
Inverted Pedal
Auxiliary Notes
Passing Notes
42. G- G
Coda
Harmony
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Mixolydian
43. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
Alto Clef
Inversion
Enharmonic
44. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Countermelody
Passing Notes
Ternary Form
Canon
45. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Programme Music
MM
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Rondo Form
46. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
5%
Natural Minor Scale
Five finger exercise
Locrian
47. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Chromatic
ASTA
Mixolydian
48. B- B
Microtone
Locrian
5%
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
49. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Pedal Point
Inversions of chords
Bennet Reimer
Polytonality
50. A- A
Bye - tones
Locrian
Aeolian
Timbre