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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. An annual budget is provided for the replacement of school - owned instruments that is equivalent to at least ______ of the current replacement value of the total inventory.






2. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






3. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






4. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






5. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






6. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






7. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






8. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






9. Another word for key.






10. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.






11. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






12. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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13. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






14. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






15. Highest natural adult male voice






16. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






17. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






18. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






19. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.






20. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






21. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






22. Made smaller.






23. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






24. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






25. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






26. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






27. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






28. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






29. B- B






30. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






31. American String Teachers Assocation






32. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






33. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






34. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






35. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






36. Chord without a third.






37. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






38. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






39. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






40. Made larger.






41. C- C






42. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.






43. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






44. Sounds minor seventh higher.






45. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






46. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






47. Sounds a minor third higher.






48. 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.






49. Glissando in jazz music






50. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.