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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Major Scale Semitones
Dissonance
Rhythmic displacement
Cor Anglais Transposition
2. 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.
Figured Bass
Reasons for Transposing
Tonic Minor
Aeolian
3. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Repetition
ASCAP
Pentatonic Scale
Whole Tone Scale
4. E- E
Tonal Sequence
Five finger exercise
Polyphonic
Phrygian
5. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Binary form
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
Alto Clef
6. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Accented Passing Note
Development
Bare chord
Diminished
7. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Consonance
Rhythmic Imitation
Real Sequence
Smear
8. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Pedal Point
Semitone
Major Scale Semitones
Countermelody
9. Organization of musical notes in time.
Unrelated Chord
Pull off
Rhythm
Extension
10. American String Teachers Assocation
Fanfare
Polyphonic
Homophonic
ASTA
11. Highest natural adult male voice
Passing Notes
Tonality
Tenor
Accent
12. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Cross Rhythm
ACDA
Microtone
Relative (Major/Minor)
13. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Appoggiaturas
Passing Notes
Absolute Music
Development
14. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Inverted Pedal
Tempo
Submediant
Countermelody
15. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Texture
Tenor Clef
Figured Bass
Ternary Form
16. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Bye - tones
Polytonality
Accidentals
Pedal Point
17. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
Imitation
MM
Diminished
18. Another word for key.
Microtone
Tonality
Auxiliary Notes
Whole Tone Scale
19. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Contrary motion
Cadence
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Antiphonal
20. 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.
Five finger exercise
Fanfare
Alberti Bass
Tonic
21. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Extension
Blues
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Appoggiaturas
22. Journal of Research for Music Education
JRME
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Glissando
Pull off
23. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Five finger exercise
Absolute Music
Repetition
24. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Inverted Pedal
Imperfect Cadence
B flat instruments
Alberti Bass
25. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Arpeggio
Accidentals
Plagal Cadence
26. A- A
Aeolian
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Glissando
Ternary Form
27. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Augmentation
A instruments
Accidentals
Dominant
28. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Harmonic
Phrase
ACDA
Notes of Anticipation
29. 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.
JRME
Binary form
5%
Sequence
30. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Rondo Form
Rhythmic Imitation
C instruments
Major Scale Semitones
31. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Harmonic Sequences
Melodic Sequences
A instruments
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
32. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Polyphonic
Five finger exercise
Introduction
Supertonic
33. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
ASTA
Inversion
Riff
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
34. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Pentatonic Scale
Irregular rhythm
B flat Bass Transposition
Enharmonic
35. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Dalcroze
ASCAP
Blues
Bennet Reimer
36. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Monophonic
Melodic Minor Scale
Imitation by Inversion
Pulse
37. Occur in all parts.
Dorian Mode
Harmonic Sequences
8
Bye - tones
38. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Melody
Enharmonic
Arpeggio
39. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Tenor Clef
Irregular rhythm
Semitone
French Horn Transposition
40. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Polyphonic
Comenius
Phrygian
Contrary motion
41. Background support for a melody.
Accompaniment
Pitch
Semitone
Accent
42. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Fragmentation
Portamento
Articulation
43. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Leading Note
Arpeggio
A instruments
Stretto
44. Distance between any two notes
Interval
Subdominant
Pitch
Homophonic
45. D- D
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Cor Anglais Transposition
Riff
Dorian Mode
46. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Portamento
Pedal Point
Tonal Sequence
Inversions of chords
47. I - V ii - V IV - V
Imitation
Riff
Imperfect Cadence
Homophonic
48. 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.
Motif
Tonic Minor
Dissonance
Phrase
49. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Sequence
45
Major Scale Semitones
Contrary motion
50. Middle C
Friedrich Froebel
Note that is transposing figured around
Programme Music
Stretto