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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Bassoon
Retrograde
Tonal Sequence
Bennet Reimer
2. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Consonance
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Arpeggio
Texture
3. Background support for a melody.
Introduction
5%
Portamento
Accompaniment
4. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Arpeggio
Hocket
Accented Passing Note
Cor Anglais Transposition
5. Interval of less than a semitone
Fragmentation
Cross Rhythm
Atonal
Microtone
6. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Supertonic
Tenor
Timbre
Pentatonic Scale
7. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
Reasons for Transposing
Rhythmic Imitation
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
8. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Concert pitch
Hocket
Tempo
Chromatic Scale
9. 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
Subdominant
Imitation by Inversion
Rhythmic displacement
10. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Hocket
Note that is transposing figured around
Ternary Form
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
11. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Antiphonal
Cross Rhythm
Tonic Minor
Appoggiaturas
12. Glissando in vocal music
Phrygian
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Portamento
B flat Bass Transposition
13. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Unrelated Chord
Tenor Clef
Dissonance
Glissando
14. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Chromatic
Pull off
Arpeggio
Stretto
15. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Tempo
Extension
Concert pitch
C instruments
16. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Register
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Kodaly
Kodaly Method
17. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Cor Anglais Transposition
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
B flat instruments
Dalcroze
18. Consists entirely of whole steps.
B flat instruments
Melodic Sequences
Whole Tone Scale
Timbre
19. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Diminished
Semitone
C instruments
Ternary Form
20. V - vi
Sequence
Mediant
Canon
Interrupted Cadence
21. 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.
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Primary Triads
Figured Bass
Cor Anglais Transposition
22. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Inverted Pedal
Harmony
Relative (Major/Minor)
Tonic Minor
23. F- F
Alto Clef
Phrygian
Lydian
Rhythmic Imitation
24. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
A instruments
Melody
Auxiliary Notes
Cadence
25. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Polytonality
Five finger exercise
Dominant
Monophonic
26. Made smaller.
Melodic Minor Scale
Diminished
Supertonic
Dissonance
27. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Melodic Sequences
Imitation
Ostinato
Smear
28. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Microtone
Diminution
Perfect Cadence
Chromatic
29. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Tonic Minor
Rhythmic displacement
B flat Bass Transposition
MM
30. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Canon
Microtone
Texture
31. Middle C
Fragmentation
Pull off
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
32. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Stretto
Bare chord
Locrian
Bassoon
33. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Register
Phrygian
Cadence
Imitation by Inversion
34. American String Teachers Assocation
Canon
Accidentals
Note that is transposing figured around
ASTA
35. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Augmentation
Hammer on
Extension
Melodic Minor Scale
36. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Tonic
Melodic Sequences
Articulation
Development
37. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Inversions of chords
Retrograde
Accent
Antiphonal
38. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Retrograde
Inverted Pedal
Hocket
JRME
39. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
5
Tenor Clef
Cor Anglais Transposition
Instruments that transpose at the octave
40. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Mediant
Cor Anglais Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
Melody
41. C- C
Ionian
Diminution
Development
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
42. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Fragmentation
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Stretto
43. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Plagal Cadence
Dalcroze
Fanfare
Melody
44. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
45
Interrupted Cadence
Melodic Minor Scale
Alto Clef
45. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Fanfare
Sequence
Imitation by Inversion
Comenius
46. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Syncopation
ASTA
Dissonance
Phrase
47. 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.
Rubato
Tonic Minor
Anacrusis
Natural Minor Scale
48. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Canon
French Horn Transposition
A instruments
Irregular rhythm
49. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.
Pedal Point
Repetition
Melodic Minor Scale
Melody
50. Alto and tenor clefs
French Horn Transposition
C Clefs
B flat Bass Transposition
Articulation
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