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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Syncopation
Harmonic
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Bennet Reimer
2. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Figured Bass
Programme Music
Pentatonic Scale
Concert pitch
3. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Absolute Music
Notes of Anticipation
Natural Minor Scale
Tenor Clef
4. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Augmented
Chromatic
Ternary Form
Texture
5. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Concert pitch
Imitation by Inversion
French Horn Transposition
Mediant
6. Consists entirely of whole steps.
AOSA
Alberti Bass
Development
Whole Tone Scale
7. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
C instruments
Accompaniment
Harmonic Minor Scale
Interrupted Cadence
8. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
ACDA
Irregular rhythm
Texture
Plagal Cadence
9. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Melodic Sequences
Note that is transposing figured around
Monophonic
10. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Bye - tones
ASCAP
Friedrich Froebel
Irregular rhythm
11. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Absolute Music
Programme Music
Kodaly
12. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
Dorian Mode
Diminished
Figured Bass
13. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
C Clefs
Countermelody
Notes of Anticipation
Leading Note
14. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Phrase
Rhythmic Imitation
Cross Rhythm
JRME
15. Chord without a third.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Bare chord
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Texture
16. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Polyphonic
Cross Rhythm
Friedrich Froebel
Cadence
17. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Glissando
Countermelody
ABA
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
18. American String Teachers Assocation
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Tenor
ASTA
Imitation
19. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Cadence
Binary form
Melodic Sequences
Harmonic
20. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Development
Consonance
Programme Music
21. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Phrygian
Dorian Mode
French Horn Transposition
Homophonic
22. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Phrase
Bare chord
B flat instruments
Chromatic
23. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
5%
Fanfare
Development
Inverted Pedal
24. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Subdominant
Harmonic Sequences
Harmony
Unrelated Chord
25. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Note that is transposing figured around
Pentatonic Scale
Pull off
Rhythm
26. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Fragmentation
Ionian
Repetition
Real Sequence
27. Tone color or quality of sound.
Primary Triads
Motif
Timbre
Register
28. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Coda
Real Sequence
Five finger exercise
Alto Clef
29. Smallest complete unit of musical form containing about as much as can be held in a normal breath. Can be two to eight bars long.
Accidentals
Phrase
Interrupted Cadence
Auxiliary Notes
30. Combination of aggreable tones.
Phrygian
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Consonance
Microtone
31. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
C instruments
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Motif
32. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Natural Minor Scale
A instruments
Locrian
Tenor
33. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Introduction
Aeolian
Antiphonal
French Horn Transposition
34. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Irregular rhythm
Hammer on
Alto Clef
Bennet Reimer
35. Distance between any two notes
Coda
A instruments
B flat instruments
Interval
36. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Inversion
Bare chord
Accent
Polyphonic
37. Glissando in jazz music
Bare chord
Glissando
Smear
Dissonance
38. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Cadence
Sequence
Hammer on
Dominant
39. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Imitation
Cor Anglais Transposition
Texture
Interval
40. F- F
Blues
Repetition
Lydian
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
41. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Accented Passing Note
Notes of Anticipation
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
B flat Bass Transposition
42. Glissando in vocal music
Interrupted Cadence
Dominant
Inversions of chords
Portamento
43. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Tenor Clef
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Arpeggio
Tonal Sequence
44. 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.
Binary form
Diminished
Appoggiaturas
Fanfare
45. D- D
Augmented
JRME
Auxiliary Notes
Dorian Mode
46. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
5%
Polyphonic
Concert pitch
47. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Bare chord
Lydian
Accented Passing Note
Ionian
48. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Articulation
Bassoon
Supertonic
C instruments
49. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
Bare chord
Binary form
Rondo Form
50. V - vi
Interrupted Cadence
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Dalcroze
B flat instruments