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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






2. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






3. American Choral Director's Association






4. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






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






6. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






7. Made larger.






8. V - I






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






10. American String Teachers Assocation






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






12. V - vi






13. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






14. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






15. Alto and tenor clefs






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






17. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.






18. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






19. B- B






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






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






22. Interval of less than a semitone






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






24. A- A






25. Pick up bar.






26. Third tone in a major or minor scale






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






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






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






30. I - IV - V






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






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






33. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






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

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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. Without key center






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






38. Glissando in vocal music






39. Journal of Research for Music Education






40. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






41. Background support for a melody.






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






43. IV - I






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






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






46. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






47. Second tone in a major/minor scale






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






49. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






50. 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.