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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Supertonic
Interrupted Cadence
Introduction
Contrary motion
2. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Syncopation
5
Locrian
3. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Relative (Major/Minor)
Imperfect Cadence
ACDA
4. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Rhythmic Imitation
Tenor
Reasons for Transposing
5. Alto and tenor clefs
Accent
Lydian
C Clefs
Auxiliary Notes
6. Tone color or quality of sound.
Motif
Reasons for Transposing
Phrygian
Timbre
7. 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.
45
Tenor Clef
5%
Arpeggio
8. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Ionian
Dorian Mode
Retrograde
Accidentals
9. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Real Sequence
Interval
Five finger exercise
Repetition
10. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Alberti Bass
Ionian
Concert pitch
Instruments that transpose at the octave
11. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Fanfare
Aeolian
Chromatic Scale
Retrograde
12. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
C Clefs
Unrelated Chord
Chromatic Scale
13. 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.
MM
Retrograde
Glissando
Pitch
14. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Melodic Minor Scale
Leading Note
Pedal Point
Augmented
15. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Major Scale Semitones
5
Submediant
Kodaly Method
16. Pick up bar.
Portamento
Chromatic
Tonal Sequence
Anacrusis
17. 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.
Fanfare
Plagal Cadence
Hammer on
Bassoon
18. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Alberti Bass
Inverted Pedal
Arpeggio
Harmonic Minor Scale
19. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
Riff
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Homophonic
20. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
45
Stretto
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Accented Passing Note
21. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Pulse
Comenius
Melodic Sequences
C Clefs
22. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Tempo
Rhythmic displacement
Harmonic Sequences
Retrograde
23. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
5
Monophonic
Microtone
Arco
24. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
Cor Anglais Transposition
Phrase
Countermelody
25. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
ACDA
Portamento
Glissando
Subdominant
26. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
Enharmonic
Real Sequence
Supertonic
27. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Primary Triads
Hocket
45
Bassoon
28. Organization of musical notes in time.
Bare chord
Monophonic
Rhythm
Interval
29. 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.
Imitation by Inversion
Motif
Passing Notes
Antiphonal
30. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Texture
Rhythmic displacement
Chromatic
Bennet Reimer
31. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Subdominant
Inversion
Interval
Extension
32. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Comenius
Canon
Imitation
Rhythm
33. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Fanfare
Glissando
Rondo Form
AOSA
34. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Coda
Tempo
Harmonic
Accidentals
35. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
5%
JRME
French Horn Transposition
Harmonic
36. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Interrupted Cadence
A instruments
Introduction
Figured Bass
37. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Five finger exercise
Antiphonal
38. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Passing Notes
ASCAP
Pentatonic Scale
Bye - tones
39. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Diminished
Real Sequence
Pentatonic Scale
Countermelody
40. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Polyphonic
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Kodaly Method
Friedrich Froebel
41. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Tenor Clef
Accent
Dorian Mode
42. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pulse
Plagal Cadence
Arco
Tonality
43. I - V ii - V IV - V
Pull off
Augmentation
Tenor
Imperfect Cadence
44. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Contrary motion
ASCAP
Imitation
Inverted Pedal
45. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Contrary motion
Reasons for Transposing
Locrian
Note that is transposing figured around
46. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Accidentals
Imitation by Inversion
Submediant
Hocket
47. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Lydian
Countermelody
Riff
Tonality
48. 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.
Perfect Cadence
French Horn Transposition
Rubato
Reasons for Transposing
49. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Supertonic
Cadence
Fragmentation
Canon
50. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Phrygian
Stretto
Friedrich Froebel
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition