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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






2. Third tone in a major or minor scale






3. V - vi






4. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






5. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






6. Occur in all parts.






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






8. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






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






10. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






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






12. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






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






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






15. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






16. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






17. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






18. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






20. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






21. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






22. D- D






23. General music is required until grade...






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






25. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






26. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






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






28. Maelzel's Metronome






29. Background support for a melody.






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






31. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






35. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






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






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






38. Alto and tenor clefs






39. 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.






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






41. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






42. Made larger.






43. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.






44. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






45. Second tone in a major/minor scale






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






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






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






49. E- E






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