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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






4. Natural Pitch






5. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






6. 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.






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






8. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






9. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






10. Alto and tenor clefs






11. An unessential note that falls on the beat






12. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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13. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






14. Tone color or quality of sound.






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






16. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






17. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






18. D- D






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






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






21. IV - I






22. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






23. Sounds a minor third higher.






24. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






25. Glissando in jazz music






26. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line






27. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






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






29. Between 3/4 and 7/8






30. Made larger.






31. Scale made entirely of semitones.






32. 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.






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






34. Consists entirely of whole steps.






35. Distance between any two notes






36. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






37. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






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






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






40. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






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






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






43. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






44. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






45. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)






46. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






47. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






48. Glissando in vocal music






49. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






50. C- C