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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






2. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






3. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






4. C- C






5. 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.






6. How high or low a note is.






7. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






8. Scale made entirely of semitones.






9. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






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






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






12. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






13. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






14. Consists entirely of whole steps.






15. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






16. B- B






17. Occur in all parts.






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






19. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






20. I - IV - V






21. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.






22. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






23. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






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






25. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






26. Second tone in a major/minor scale






27. 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.






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






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






30. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. Distance between any two notes






38. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.






39. Middle C






40. Alto and tenor clefs






41. Highest natural adult male voice






42. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






43. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






44. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






45. F- F






46. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






47. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






48. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






49. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






50. IV - I