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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Alto and tenor clefs
Alto Clef
Diminution
Instruments that transpose at the octave
C Clefs
2. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Tenor
Cadence
Absolute Music
French Horn Transposition
3. I - V ii - V IV - V
Development
Real Sequence
Imperfect Cadence
Tonic Minor
4. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Sequence
Phrase
Instruments that transpose at the octave
A instruments
5. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Dorian Mode
Stretto
Friedrich Froebel
6. Pick up bar.
Locrian
French Horn Transposition
Relative (Major/Minor)
Anacrusis
7. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Coda
Melody
Rhythmic Imitation
Semitone
8. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Mediant
Introduction
Polyphonic
Chromatic Scale
9. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Rondo Form
Alberti Bass
Melodic Sequences
Tonal Sequence
10. D- D
C instruments
Accidentals
Syncopation
Dorian Mode
11. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Portamento
Augmented
12. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Syncopation
Articulation
Accidentals
Unrelated Chord
13. Background support for a melody.
Rubato
ASTA
Accompaniment
Alto Clef
14. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Dissonance
Tempo
Canon
Binary form
15. 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.
Pulse
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Fanfare
Extension
16. G- G
Bye - tones
Mixolydian
Notes of Anticipation
Appoggiaturas
17. 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.
Figured Bass
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
AOSA
18. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
B flat instruments
Tonality
Programme Music
19. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
ABA
Passing Notes
Five finger exercise
French Horn Transposition
20. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Figured Bass
Texture
Tempo
Extension
21. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
B flat Bass Transposition
Tonal Sequence
B flat instruments
22. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Polytonality
Alto Clef
B flat Bass Transposition
Concert pitch
23. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
ACDA
Polyphonic
Homophonic
Mediant
24. I - IV - V
Harmony
Pull off
Primary Triads
Cor Anglais Transposition
25. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Rhythmic displacement
Tenor
Bassoon
Irregular rhythm
26. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Rubato
Texture
Irregular rhythm
Absolute Music
27. F- F
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Ternary Form
Lydian
Inversions of chords
28. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Pulse
Harmony
Ternary Form
Tonal Sequence
29. V - I
Contrary motion
MM
Development
Perfect Cadence
30. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Sequence
Inverted Pedal
5%
Diminution
31. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
JRME
Binary form
A instruments
Texture
32. Sounds a minor third higher.
Portamento
Timbre
Tonality
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
33. Tone color or quality of sound.
Rhythmic Imitation
Consonance
Smear
Timbre
34. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Dissonance
Smear
Ostinato
Harmony
35. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Reasons for Transposing
Harmonic
Plagal Cadence
36. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Mediant
Register
Cor Anglais Transposition
Accompaniment
37. Highest natural adult male voice
Tonic
Riff
Blues
Tenor
38. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Absolute Music
Cross Rhythm
Articulation
Introduction
39. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Mixolydian
Auxiliary Notes
C instruments
40. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Accented Passing Note
Harmonic Minor Scale
Pitch
Imperfect Cadence
41. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Tonal Sequence
Homophonic
Enharmonic
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
42. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Cross Rhythm
Reasons for Transposing
Melodic Sequences
Alto Clef
43. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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44. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
5
Lydian
Alto Clef
Phrase
45. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
B flat instruments
45
Dalcroze
Atonal
46. Glissando in vocal music
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
ASTA
Unrelated Chord
Portamento
47. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
C instruments
Subdominant
Cadence
Auxiliary Notes
48. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Development
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Blues
49. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Bare chord
Tonic Minor
Repetition
Harmonic Sequences
50. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Harmonic
Dominant
Hammer on
Subdominant