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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






2. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






3. Interval of less than a semitone






4. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






5. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






6. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






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






8. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






9. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






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






11. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






12. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






13. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






14. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






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






16. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






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






18. Made smaller.






19. 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.






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






21. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






22. G- G






23. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.






24. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






25. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






26. C- C






27. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






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






29. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






30. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






31. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






32. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






33. 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.






34. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






35. 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.






36. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






37. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.






38. V - I






39. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






40. I - IV - V






41. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






42. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






43. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






44. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






45. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






46. Combination of aggreable tones.






47. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






48. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






50. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.