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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Inversion
Reasons for Transposing
B flat Bass Transposition
Polyphonic
2. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Perfect Cadence
Tonal Sequence
Enharmonic
Pedal Point
3. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Rhythmic displacement
Locrian
Submediant
4. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Tonic Minor
Glissando
Diminished
Hocket
5. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Real Sequence
Notes of Anticipation
Imitation
Alberti Bass
6. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Harmonic
Augmented
Melodic Minor Scale
Polytonality
7. Another word for key.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Pitch
Rhythmic displacement
Tonality
8. American String Teachers Assocation
ASTA
Dominant
Semitone
Phrygian
9. Chord without a third.
Tonality
Imperfect Cadence
Lydian
Bare chord
10. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Alto Clef
Rhythmic displacement
Auxiliary Notes
Hammer on
11. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Rhythmic Imitation
Microtone
Pull off
Development
12. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Fanfare
C instruments
Whole Tone Scale
Arpeggio
13. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
Dalcroze
Antiphonal
Arco
14. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
Phrygian
Interval
Bassoon
15. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Extension
Notes of Anticipation
Contrary motion
Irregular rhythm
16. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Pull off
Tonic Minor
Articulation
Polyphonic
17. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Pentatonic Scale
French Horn Transposition
Relative (Major/Minor)
JRME
18. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Lydian
Rondo Form
ASTA
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
19. Made smaller.
Articulation
Diminished
Plagal Cadence
Bassoon
20. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
C Clefs
Appoggiaturas
Accent
Countermelody
21. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Passing Notes
ASTA
B flat instruments
Arco
22. 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.
Interrupted Cadence
Figured Bass
Mediant
Rhythm
23. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Accidentals
Hammer on
Arpeggio
Contrary motion
24. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Coda
Cor Anglais Transposition
Dalcroze
French Horn Transposition
25. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Major Scale Semitones
ABA
Inverted Pedal
Extension
26. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Motif
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Melody
Five finger exercise
27. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Phrygian
Comenius
Tenor Clef
Accidentals
28. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Accented Passing Note
Mediant
Locrian
Texture
29. How high or low a note is.
Bennet Reimer
Pitch
Antiphonal
Phrase
30. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Locrian
Extension
Contrary motion
Atonal
31. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Microtone
Harmonic Sequences
Pedal Point
32. Middle C
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Locrian
33. 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
Diminution
Dorian Mode
Absolute Music
34. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
B flat Bass Transposition
C instruments
Mixolydian
35. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Diminution
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Aeolian
Imitation by Inversion
36. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
B flat Bass Transposition
5
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
37. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
ACDA
Tenor
Imitation
Relative (Major/Minor)
38. General music is required until grade...
Arco
Glissando
Mixolydian
8
39. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Phrase
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Inverted Pedal
Reasons for Transposing
40. Pick up bar.
Whole Tone Scale
Anacrusis
Consonance
Five finger exercise
41. Alto and tenor clefs
C instruments
C Clefs
Aeolian
Mediant
42. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Tonal Sequence
Mediant
Articulation
Binary form
43. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Tenor Clef
Hammer on
Register
Dissonance
44. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Countermelody
Semitone
Tonality
Cadence
45. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
ABA
Arco
Enharmonic
Tonic
46. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Augmentation
Accidentals
B flat instruments
Unrelated Chord
47. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Plagal Cadence
Chromatic Scale
C instruments
Dominant
48. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Inversions of chords
A instruments
Diminution
45
49. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
A instruments
Primary Triads
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Tonic Minor
50. Interval of less than a semitone
Alberti Bass
Microtone
Antiphonal
Arpeggio