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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Imitation
Plagal Cadence
Phrase
Enharmonic
2. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Extension
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
3. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
Cadence
Interrupted Cadence
Leading Note
4. 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.
Cross Rhythm
Alberti Bass
Rondo Form
Dorian Mode
5. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Bennet Reimer
Tonic Minor
B flat Bass Transposition
Rhythmic Imitation
6. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Pull off
Irregular rhythm
Monophonic
7. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Riff
Passing Notes
Major Scale Semitones
Syncopation
8. Glissando in vocal music
Bye - tones
Relative (Major/Minor)
Portamento
Pull off
9. 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.
JRME
Chromatic
Consonance
Motif
10. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Friedrich Froebel
Motif
Five finger exercise
Register
11. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Alto Clef
B flat instruments
Rondo Form
Monophonic
12. D- D
Dorian Mode
Diminution
Riff
Tempo
13. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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14. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Appoggiaturas
Auxiliary Notes
Polyphonic
Chromatic
15. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Interrupted Cadence
Chromatic
C instruments
16. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Dominant
Unrelated Chord
Antiphonal
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
17. Combination of aggreable tones.
Passing Notes
C instruments
Real Sequence
Consonance
18. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Locrian
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Melodic Minor Scale
Augmentation
19. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Countermelody
Accent
Dominant
Phrase
20. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Perfect Cadence
45
Riff
Fanfare
21. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Cross Rhythm
Diminished
Homophonic
Rhythmic displacement
22. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
French Horn Transposition
Phrygian
ASTA
Mediant
23. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Diminution
Extension
Dissonance
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
24. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
45
Inversion
Arpeggio
Melodic Minor Scale
25. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Microtone
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Introduction
B flat Bass Transposition
26. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Phrygian
Atonal
Blues
Melodic Minor Scale
27. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Harmonic
B flat instruments
Mixolydian
Reasons for Transposing
28. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Imitation
Register
Diminution
Dominant
29. Tone color or quality of sound.
Articulation
Timbre
Five finger exercise
Reasons for Transposing
30. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Rhythmic displacement
Phrygian
Harmonic Minor Scale
Retrograde
31. General music is required until grade...
Passing Notes
8
Notes of Anticipation
Leading Note
32. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Imperfect Cadence
Accented Passing Note
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Arco
33. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Harmonic Sequences
5
Tenor Clef
34. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Notes of Anticipation
Portamento
Timbre
Augmentation
35. Organization of musical notes in time.
Rhythm
Dalcroze
Five finger exercise
Imitation
36. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Homophonic
Cross Rhythm
Passing Notes
Absolute Music
37. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Register
Pull off
Mixolydian
38. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Retrograde
Notes of Anticipation
Bassoon
Note that is transposing figured around
39. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Ostinato
Tonic Minor
Bassoon
40. American Bandmaster's Association
Note that is transposing figured around
Programme Music
Rhythmic Imitation
ABA
41. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Comenius
ACDA
Repetition
Fanfare
42. I - V ii - V IV - V
Subdominant
Imperfect Cadence
Pentatonic Scale
Development
43. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
Diminution
Tonic Minor
Rondo Form
44. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Harmonic Sequences
Accompaniment
MM
45. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Countermelody
Rhythmic displacement
Irregular rhythm
Primary Triads
46. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Relative (Major/Minor)
Accidentals
Cross Rhythm
Tenor
47. Alto and tenor clefs
JRME
Atonal
C Clefs
Plagal Cadence
48. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Five finger exercise
Syncopation
Real Sequence
AOSA
49. Maelzel's Metronome
Introduction
Melody
Portamento
MM
50. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
Cor Anglais Transposition
Enharmonic
Subdominant