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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. G- G






2. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






3. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






4. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






5. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






6. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






7. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






8. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






9. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






10. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






11. 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.






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






13. Glissando in vocal music






14. Distance between any two notes






15. Used by composers in the Baroque period. Numbers underneath the bass line told the performer which chords to play. The bass part was called the continuo. Each number represents an interval between the bass and the note to be supplied.






16. Third tone in a major or minor scale






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






18. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






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






20. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






21. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






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






23. 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.






24. Glissando in jazz music






25. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






26. 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.






27. Natural Pitch






28. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






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






30. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






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






32. D- D






33. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






34. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.






35. Consists entirely of whole steps.






36. American Bandmaster's Association






37. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






38. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






39. Another word for key.






40. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






41. Pick up bar.






42. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






43. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.






44. Sounds a minor third higher.






45. C- C






46. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






47. Alto and tenor clefs






48. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






49. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.






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