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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Major Scale Semitones
Reasons for Transposing
Cor Anglais Transposition
2. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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3. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Sequence
Contrary motion
Riff
Imitation
4. Organization of musical notes in time.
Kodaly Method
Rhythm
Semitone
Major Scale Semitones
5. F- F
Lydian
Glissando
ACDA
Hammer on
6. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Ostinato
Primary Triads
Dissonance
Tenor Clef
7. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Imperfect Cadence
Cadence
Portamento
8. Middle C
Dalcroze
Imperfect Cadence
Note that is transposing figured around
Riff
9. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Development
Notes of Anticipation
Chromatic
Pentatonic Scale
10. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Phrase
Dominant
Tenor Clef
Dorian Mode
11. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Dorian Mode
ASTA
A instruments
Primary Triads
12. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Timbre
Inversions of chords
Harmony
Dissonance
13. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
5
Glissando
Pitch
Tenor Clef
14. IV - I
Glissando
Plagal Cadence
Coda
B flat instruments
15. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Enharmonic
Canon
Sequence
Irregular rhythm
16. V - vi
Dalcroze
Major Scale Semitones
Interrupted Cadence
Harmonic
17. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Hammer on
Enharmonic
Rondo Form
Rhythm
18. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
B flat instruments
Antiphonal
Melodic Minor Scale
Dorian Mode
19. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Kodaly Method
Fragmentation
Stretto
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
20. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Accompaniment
Notes of Anticipation
Bye - tones
21. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Syncopation
Appoggiaturas
Harmonic
Tonal Sequence
22. 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
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Anacrusis
Bare chord
23. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Locrian
Dorian Mode
Stretto
Bassoon
24. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Harmonic Sequences
Friedrich Froebel
B flat Bass Transposition
Chromatic Scale
25. E- E
Canon
French Horn Transposition
Melodic Sequences
Phrygian
26. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Countermelody
Imitation
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Antiphonal
27. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Subdominant
Phrase
Retrograde
Passing Notes
28. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
5%
Irregular rhythm
MM
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
29. Alto and tenor clefs
Appoggiaturas
Interrupted Cadence
Dominant
C Clefs
30. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Whole Tone Scale
Development
Binary form
Repetition
31. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
ABA
Coda
8
Bye - tones
32. Highest natural adult male voice
Rhythm
MM
Tenor
Contrary motion
33. I - V ii - V IV - V
Rhythmic Imitation
Imperfect Cadence
Inverted Pedal
Note that is transposing figured around
34. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Sequence
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Major Scale Semitones
Comenius
35. Interval of less than a semitone
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Kodaly
Microtone
Chromatic
36. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Real Sequence
Melodic Sequences
B flat Bass Transposition
Cadence
37. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
5
Imitation by Inversion
Inverted Pedal
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
38. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Cross Rhythm
5%
ASTA
Inversion
39. Between 3/4 and 7/8
ASCAP
Major Scale Semitones
Canon
Augmented
40. G- G
Mixolydian
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Passing Notes
Primary Triads
41. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Tonic Minor
Accent
French Horn Transposition
45
42. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Dorian Mode
Mediant
Extension
Register
43. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Tenor Clef
B flat Bass Transposition
Register
Primary Triads
44. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Smear
Real Sequence
Enharmonic
Rondo Form
45. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Ternary Form
Plagal Cadence
Irregular rhythm
Imitation by Inversion
46. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Comenius
Atonal
Cadence
Syncopation
47. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Harmonic Minor Scale
Diminution
Phrygian
Antiphonal
48. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Polytonality
Repetition
8
Natural Minor Scale
49. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Minor Scale
Arpeggio
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Natural Minor Scale
50. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
B flat instruments
Five finger exercise
Interrupted Cadence