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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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1. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Hammer on
Pull off
Five finger exercise
Harmonic Minor Scale
2. Without key center
Passing Notes
Atonal
Programme Music
Concert pitch
3. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Cross Rhythm
Figured Bass
Submediant
Extension
4. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Riff
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Auxiliary Notes
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
5. Sounds a minor third higher.
Riff
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
AOSA
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
6. Occur in all parts.
Rhythmic displacement
Relative (Major/Minor)
AOSA
Harmonic Sequences
7. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Tonal Sequence
A instruments
Polytonality
Monophonic
8. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Subdominant
Portamento
Countermelody
ACDA
9. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
Supertonic
B flat Bass Transposition
Fragmentation
10. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
Harmonic Minor Scale
Introduction
Countermelody
11. Tone color or quality of sound.
Timbre
Consonance
Accent
Dalcroze
12. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
8
Repetition
Bye - tones
Bare chord
13. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
B flat instruments
Tenor Clef
Perfect Cadence
14. B- B
Melodic Sequences
Locrian
Augmented
Motif
15. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Notes of Anticipation
Monophonic
C Clefs
Hammer on
16. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Programme Music
B flat instruments
ASTA
Kodaly Method
17. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Interval
Phrase
Cor Anglais Transposition
Appoggiaturas
18. 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.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Countermelody
Figured Bass
Passing Notes
19. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Relative (Major/Minor)
Riff
Augmentation
Subdominant
20. General music is required until grade...
Concert pitch
Harmonic
8
Mediant
21. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Leading Note
French Horn Transposition
Anacrusis
22. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Tenor
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Sequence
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
23. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Sequence
Tonal Sequence
Appoggiaturas
Cadence
24. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Leading Note
Timbre
Accidentals
Dissonance
25. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
AOSA
Canon
Chromatic
Natural Minor Scale
26. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Pedal Point
Articulation
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
French Horn Transposition
27. Another word for key.
ASCAP
Tonality
Alto Clef
45
28. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
Portamento
Tonic
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
29. I - IV - V
Natural Minor Scale
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Cross Rhythm
Primary Triads
30. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Melodic Minor Scale
Countermelody
Pedal Point
Diminished
31. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Leading Note
Melodic Minor Scale
Accented Passing Note
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
32. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Retrograde
Major Scale Semitones
Tonal Sequence
Ostinato
33. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Inversion
Notes of Anticipation
Real Sequence
Accented Passing Note
34. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Real Sequence
C instruments
Accent
Harmonic Minor Scale
35. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Ostinato
Register
Absolute Music
Programme Music
36. Middle C
Perfect Cadence
Note that is transposing figured around
Auxiliary Notes
Concert pitch
37. 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
Alto Clef
Sequence
Phrase
38. Journal of Research for Music Education
Imperfect Cadence
Repetition
JRME
Timbre
39. American Bandmaster's Association
Harmonic Minor Scale
JRME
ABA
Bennet Reimer
40. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Accent
Mediant
Dissonance
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
41. American Choral Director's Association
Pull off
B flat instruments
ACDA
Tonic Minor
42. C- C
Binary form
5
Figured Bass
Ionian
43. Organization of musical notes in time.
Microtone
Rhythm
Sequence
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
44. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Timbre
Notes of Anticipation
Passing Notes
Arco
45. Sounds minor seventh higher.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Accent
AOSA
Extension
46. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
Melody
Whole Tone Scale
Inversion
47. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Tenor Clef
Harmonic Minor Scale
Friedrich Froebel
48. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Notes of Anticipation
Interval
Rondo Form
Melodic Sequences
49. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
C Clefs
Antiphonal
Inversions of chords
Bare chord
50. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Imitation by Inversion
Sequence
Imperfect Cadence
Phrase