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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
ASTA
Lydian
Riff
Tenor Clef
2. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Cross Rhythm
Tempo
Interval
Cadence
3. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
ASCAP
Rondo Form
Accent
Aeolian
4. 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.
Appoggiaturas
Fanfare
Tempo
Coda
5. G- G
Ionian
Mixolydian
A instruments
Melodic Sequences
6. Smallest complete unit of musical form containing about as much as can be held in a normal breath. Can be two to eight bars long.
Dominant
Unrelated Chord
Phrase
MM
7. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Imperfect Cadence
Augmented
Stretto
Bye - tones
8. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Tempo
Diminution
Mediant
Alberti Bass
9. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Augmented
Riff
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Comenius
10. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Auxiliary Notes
ASCAP
Inverted Pedal
Semitone
11. Highest natural adult male voice
Timbre
Tonality
Tenor
Mixolydian
12. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Rhythm
Ionian
Tenor
Kodaly Method
13. American Bandmaster's Association
Contrary motion
ABA
AOSA
Leading Note
14. E- E
Relative (Major/Minor)
Tenor
Imitation
Phrygian
15. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
Programme Music
Development
Plagal Cadence
16. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Major Scale Semitones
Polyphonic
Consonance
17. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Harmonic Sequences
5%
Diminution
Accidentals
18. Sounds minor seventh higher.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Antiphonal
Alberti Bass
AOSA
19. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Augmented
Tonal Sequence
Inversion
Relative (Major/Minor)
20. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Mediant
Reasons for Transposing
Cor Anglais Transposition
Tonic
21. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Extension
Sequence
Diminished
22. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Harmonic
Hocket
Appoggiaturas
C instruments
23. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
Rhythmic Imitation
Locrian
Articulation
24. Without key center
Atonal
Inversions of chords
Melody
Motif
25. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Programme Music
Leading Note
Harmonic Minor Scale
Aeolian
26. IV - I
Plagal Cadence
Syncopation
Augmented
Kodaly
27. Background support for a melody.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Semitone
Inversion
Accompaniment
28. V - vi
Interrupted Cadence
Tonality
Diminished
Anacrusis
29. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Rondo Form
Bye - tones
A instruments
Timbre
30. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Register
Portamento
Enharmonic
Riff
31. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Tenor
Riff
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Auxiliary Notes
32. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Arco
Cor Anglais Transposition
Riff
C instruments
33. How high or low a note is.
Pitch
Imitation by Inversion
Harmonic
Extension
34. General music is required until grade...
Hocket
C instruments
8
Melody
35. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Tonic
Ionian
Melodic Sequences
Absolute Music
36. V - I
Articulation
Monophonic
ASCAP
Perfect Cadence
37. Chord without a third.
Real Sequence
Bare chord
B flat Bass Transposition
Tempo
38. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Tonal Sequence
Supertonic
Passing Notes
Relative (Major/Minor)
39. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Locrian
Aeolian
Phrygian
Whole Tone Scale
40. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Syncopation
Repetition
Rhythmic displacement
Leading Note
41. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
Syncopation
42. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Chromatic
Passing Notes
Contrary motion
Bassoon
43. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Note that is transposing figured around
Augmentation
Imperfect Cadence
Instruments that transpose at the octave
44. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.
Motif
Smear
Irregular rhythm
Retrograde
45. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Imitation by Inversion
Countermelody
Harmonic
46. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Subdominant
Coda
Development
Irregular rhythm
47. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
B flat Bass Transposition
Appoggiaturas
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Monophonic
48. American String Teachers Assocation
Friedrich Froebel
ASTA
Inverted Pedal
Concert pitch
49. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Blues
Arco
Introduction
A instruments
50. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Interval
Lydian
Enharmonic
Rhythmic Imitation
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