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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Development
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Tenor
Comenius
2. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Tenor
ABA
Stretto
3. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Stretto
Accent
Aeolian
4. Sounds a minor third higher.
Retrograde
Semitone
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Relative (Major/Minor)
5. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Submediant
B flat instruments
Leading Note
Passing Notes
6. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Notes of Anticipation
Pull off
Polyphonic
Interrupted Cadence
7. How high or low a note is.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Countermelody
Pentatonic Scale
Pitch
8. Combination of aggreable tones.
Semitone
Inverted Pedal
Consonance
Introduction
9. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Whole Tone Scale
Glissando
Retrograde
Relative (Major/Minor)
10. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Countermelody
Tenor Clef
Retrograde
Friedrich Froebel
11. Distance between any two notes
Concert pitch
Tonic
Tonal Sequence
Interval
12. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Accompaniment
B flat instruments
Homophonic
Instruments that transpose at the octave
13. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Aeolian
Rhythm
Kodaly
Dissonance
14. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Articulation
Figured Bass
Melodic Minor Scale
Natural Minor Scale
15. A- A
Figured Bass
Bare chord
Aeolian
Tonic Minor
16. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
C instruments
Bare chord
45
Syncopation
17. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Accompaniment
ABA
18. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Extension
C instruments
Ionian
Melody
19. American Choral Director's Association
ACDA
ABA
Syncopation
Atonal
20. Scale made entirely of semitones.
45
Tonal Sequence
Inversions of chords
Chromatic Scale
21. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Antiphonal
C instruments
Mediant
22. Tone color or quality of sound.
Antiphonal
C Clefs
Smear
Timbre
23. Consists entirely of whole steps.
AOSA
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Whole Tone Scale
Motif
24. 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.
Phrase
Real Sequence
5
Dissonance
25. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Auxiliary Notes
Syncopation
Imitation
Programme Music
26. IV - I
Antiphonal
Repetition
Kodaly
Plagal Cadence
27. Glissando in vocal music
Register
Pitch
Friedrich Froebel
Portamento
28. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Introduction
Melodic Minor Scale
Programme Music
ASTA
29. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Coda
Imperfect Cadence
45
Ostinato
30. 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.
Riff
Accidentals
Motif
Augmented
31. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Articulation
Riff
Microtone
Sequence
32. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
Ionian
ABA
Aeolian
33. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Fragmentation
5
Cor Anglais Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale
34. 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.
Homophonic
Hammer on
Leading Note
Glissando
35. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Monophonic
5
Syncopation
Bennet Reimer
36. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.
Semitone
Rubato
Introduction
Tonal Sequence
37. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
Melodic Sequences
French Horn Transposition
JRME
38. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Fragmentation
Pedal Point
B flat instruments
Absolute Music
39. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
Development
Ostinato
Tonic Minor
40. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Texture
Homophonic
Real Sequence
Notes of Anticipation
41. 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.
Plagal Cadence
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Introduction
Fanfare
42. Made smaller.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Diminished
Arco
Extension
43. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Articulation
Relative (Major/Minor)
Absolute Music
Chromatic
44. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Major Scale Semitones
8
JRME
45. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Harmonic
Atonal
Cor Anglais Transposition
Imitation by Inversion
46. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Portamento
Mediant
Development
Notes of Anticipation
47. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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48. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Bennet Reimer
Accidentals
Passing Notes
49. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Irregular rhythm
French Horn Transposition
Inversion
Alto Clef
50. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
5
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Unrelated Chord
Polyphonic