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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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1. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Supertonic
C instruments
Rhythmic displacement
Alberti Bass
2. Glissando in jazz music
Real Sequence
Coda
Homophonic
Smear
3. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Chromatic Scale
Arpeggio
Appoggiaturas
45
4. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Alto Clef
Dominant
Polytonality
Sequence
5. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Hammer on
Real Sequence
Aeolian
Imitation
6. Without key center
ABA
Atonal
Phrygian
Consonance
7. Pick up bar.
Bennet Reimer
Harmonic Sequences
Anacrusis
Instruments that transpose at the octave
8. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Canon
Tonic
B flat Bass Transposition
Concert pitch
9. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Harmonic Sequences
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Microtone
Melody
10. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Real Sequence
Blues
Subdominant
C Clefs
11. How high or low a note is.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Pitch
Hocket
Chromatic
12. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Bennet Reimer
Bassoon
ABA
Imitation by Inversion
13. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
5%
Alberti Bass
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Fanfare
14. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
Natural Minor Scale
Perfect Cadence
Retrograde
15. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Homophonic
ABA
Dorian Mode
16. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Friedrich Froebel
Retrograde
Aeolian
Phrygian
17. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Friedrich Froebel
Chromatic
Harmonic
Concert pitch
18. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Auxiliary Notes
Diminution
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
19. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Unrelated Chord
Hocket
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Monophonic
20. Glissando in vocal music
Locrian
Portamento
Dominant
Bye - tones
21. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Pedal Point
Arco
Contrary motion
Coda
22. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Chromatic
Ionian
Harmonic Minor Scale
Fragmentation
23. E- E
Kodaly
Introduction
Pedal Point
Phrygian
24. Highest natural adult male voice
Rhythmic displacement
Extension
Melodic Minor Scale
Tenor
25. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Rubato
Stretto
Aeolian
Countermelody
26. Sounds a minor third higher.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Register
Cor Anglais Transposition
Smear
27. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Imperfect Cadence
Harmonic Sequences
Hocket
Ternary Form
28. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Anacrusis
Semitone
Irregular rhythm
Reasons for Transposing
29. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Bare chord
Blues
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Binary form
30. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Pull off
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Tenor Clef
Stretto
31. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
Concert pitch
45
Binary form
Perfect Cadence
32. V - vi
Glissando
Rhythmic Imitation
Interrupted Cadence
Unrelated Chord
33. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Tonic
Alberti Bass
Articulation
34. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
C Clefs
Pull off
Cross Rhythm
35. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Pull off
Leading Note
B flat instruments
Sequence
36. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Alto Clef
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Kodaly
Pedal Point
37. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Bennet Reimer
Fanfare
Antiphonal
5%
38. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Hocket
Augmented
Subdominant
Stretto
39. F- F
Augmentation
B flat instruments
Lydian
Hammer on
40. I - V ii - V IV - V
Imperfect Cadence
Alto Clef
Aeolian
Semitone
41. A- A
Binary form
Ternary Form
Accent
Aeolian
42. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Lydian
5%
43. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Tenor
Augmentation
Contrary motion
Reasons for Transposing
44. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Semitone
Polyphonic
ASTA
Inversions of chords
45. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Rhythm
Texture
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Melodic Minor Scale
46. American String Teachers Assocation
Fragmentation
Submediant
ASTA
Hammer on
47. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Motif
Melody
Sequence
Blues
48. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Polytonality
Programme Music
Rondo Form
49. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Augmentation
Accompaniment
Natural Minor Scale
Relative (Major/Minor)
50. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Plagal Cadence
Perfect Cadence
Tonal Sequence
Atonal