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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
5%
Arpeggio
Diminution
2. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Whole Tone Scale
Mixolydian
Register
Dalcroze
3. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Anacrusis
Blues
Major Scale Semitones
Tonal Sequence
4. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Interrupted Cadence
Pitch
Real Sequence
B flat instruments
5. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Retrograde
Hammer on
Fragmentation
6. 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.
Microtone
5%
Rhythm
Fanfare
7. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Cadence
Sequence
Imitation by Inversion
8. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pulse
Semitone
Blues
Friedrich Froebel
9. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
Cadence
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
10. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Diminished
Auxiliary Notes
A instruments
11. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
C instruments
Whole Tone Scale
Inversion
Repetition
12. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Friedrich Froebel
Rhythmic displacement
Concert pitch
Notes of Anticipation
13. Background support for a melody.
Phrygian
Accompaniment
Unrelated Chord
Imitation
14. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Unrelated Chord
Timbre
Syncopation
15. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Introduction
Kodaly
Binary form
Relative (Major/Minor)
16. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Imitation by Inversion
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Alto Clef
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
17. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Microtone
Comenius
Reasons for Transposing
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
18. Sounds a minor third higher.
Tonal Sequence
AOSA
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Arpeggio
19. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Irregular rhythm
Augmented
Harmonic Minor Scale
Submediant
20. G- G
Accidentals
Mixolydian
Whole Tone Scale
Ternary Form
21. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Interval
Tempo
Extension
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
22. Made smaller.
Stretto
Supertonic
Diminished
Kodaly Method
23. Made larger.
Articulation
Augmented
Tonal Sequence
Bye - tones
24. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
B flat instruments
Rhythmic displacement
C instruments
Portamento
25. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Contrary motion
Pull off
B flat Bass Transposition
Retrograde
26. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
45
Augmented
Mediant
27. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Homophonic
Development
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Alto Clef
28. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
French Horn Transposition
Imperfect Cadence
Articulation
29. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
A instruments
Inversion
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Five finger exercise
30. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Bare chord
B flat instruments
Harmonic
Passing Notes
31. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Stretto
Rubato
Hammer on
Syncopation
32. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Harmonic Minor Scale
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Rondo Form
Auxiliary Notes
33. Pick up bar.
Harmonic Sequences
Anacrusis
Extension
Augmentation
34. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Syncopation
Ostinato
Articulation
Chromatic
35. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Homophonic
45
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
36. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Tonal Sequence
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
37. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
C Clefs
Imitation
B flat Bass Transposition
Chromatic Scale
38. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
French Horn Transposition
Timbre
Semitone
Kodaly Method
39. Another word for key.
Tonality
Imperfect Cadence
ABA
Inverted Pedal
40. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
ABA
Accidentals
Friedrich Froebel
41. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Passing Notes
Pull off
Inversions of chords
Chromatic Scale
42. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Hammer on
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Pull off
Tempo
43. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
JRME
C Clefs
Appoggiaturas
Accidentals
44. V - I
Perfect Cadence
Polytonality
Contrary motion
Arpeggio
45. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Appoggiaturas
Retrograde
Supertonic
Polytonality
46. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
5%
Tonal Sequence
Bennet Reimer
5
47. B- B
Bare chord
Note that is transposing figured around
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Locrian
48. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Absolute Music
Notes of Anticipation
Tonic
Antiphonal
49. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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50. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
B flat Bass Transposition
Pull off
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Figured Bass