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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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2. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Smear
Polytonality
Friedrich Froebel
Harmony
3. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Sequence
B flat instruments
Imperfect Cadence
Semitone
4. V - I
Perfect Cadence
Ostinato
Polyphonic
Alberti Bass
5. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
Polytonality
ABA
Syncopation
6. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Dalcroze
Accent
Diminution
Bassoon
7. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Figured Bass
Bye - tones
Dissonance
Syncopation
8. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Unrelated Chord
Inverted Pedal
Pentatonic Scale
Cor Anglais Transposition
9. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Syncopation
Sequence
Enharmonic
Rhythmic Imitation
10. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Development
Dorian Mode
Chromatic
Bye - tones
11. Interval of less than a semitone
Pitch
Microtone
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Alto Clef
12. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Imitation by Inversion
Microtone
Bennet Reimer
Figured Bass
13. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Pitch
Register
8
Monophonic
14. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Articulation
Harmonic Sequences
Melodic Sequences
B flat instruments
15. Without key center
Absolute Music
Atonal
Binary form
Imitation by Inversion
16. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Accidentals
Interrupted Cadence
Bassoon
Pitch
17. Maelzel's Metronome
Relative (Major/Minor)
ABA
Tempo
MM
18. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Atonal
Rhythmic Imitation
Programme Music
Consonance
19. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Atonal
Arco
Pentatonic Scale
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
20. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
45
MM
Ternary Form
21. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Inverted Pedal
ASCAP
Tonality
Submediant
22. Tone color or quality of sound.
Timbre
Melodic Sequences
Pentatonic Scale
Anacrusis
23. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
A instruments
Accented Passing Note
24. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
B flat instruments
Glissando
Arpeggio
Countermelody
25. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Pitch
Notes of Anticipation
Stretto
Friedrich Froebel
26. General music is required until grade...
Concert pitch
Polyphonic
8
Tonic Minor
27. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Accompaniment
Inversion
Contrary motion
28. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Dorian Mode
ABA
Harmony
Sequence
29. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Pitch
Antiphonal
Binary form
Introduction
30. American Bandmaster's Association
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
ABA
Kodaly
Arpeggio
31. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Pull off
Introduction
Syncopation
Portamento
32. I - IV - V
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Primary Triads
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Irregular rhythm
33. Combination of aggreable tones.
Perfect Cadence
Aeolian
Consonance
Five finger exercise
34. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Contrary motion
Articulation
Inversions of chords
8
35. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Leading Note
Unrelated Chord
Imperfect Cadence
Ionian
36. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Passing Notes
Dominant
Comenius
Bye - tones
37. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Alto Clef
Enharmonic
Smear
Bassoon
38. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Concert pitch
Consonance
Supertonic
Interval
39. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Accent
Cor Anglais Transposition
Polyphonic
Arpeggio
40. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Harmonic Minor Scale
Fanfare
Augmentation
41. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
45
Hammer on
Harmony
Accented Passing Note
42. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Extension
Canon
Pulse
Ternary Form
43. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
A instruments
Homophonic
Pulse
Phrygian
44. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Tonic Minor
Harmonic
Rhythmic Imitation
Ternary Form
45. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Whole Tone Scale
Smear
Irregular rhythm
Hocket
46. Distance between any two notes
C Clefs
Plagal Cadence
Interval
Inverted Pedal
47. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Tenor Clef
Imitation
Kodaly
48. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
A instruments
Repetition
Harmonic Minor Scale
Motif
49. Chord without a third.
Reasons for Transposing
Bare chord
Consonance
Submediant
50. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
Homophonic
Bye - tones
Perfect Cadence