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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Pentatonic Scale
Dissonance
Absolute Music
Chromatic Scale
2. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Harmonic
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Mixolydian
Consonance
3. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Accented Passing Note
Rubato
8
Riff
4. G- G
Reasons for Transposing
Rhythm
Mixolydian
Aeolian
5. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Antiphonal
Polyphonic
Bennet Reimer
6. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Motif
Melodic Minor Scale
Appoggiaturas
Rhythmic displacement
7. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Submediant
Chromatic
Antiphonal
Accidentals
8. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Five finger exercise
Pentatonic Scale
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Programme Music
9. Middle C
Blues
Note that is transposing figured around
Subdominant
Rondo Form
10. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Imperfect Cadence
Bare chord
Rondo Form
Coda
11. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Alberti Bass
Pitch
Rubato
12. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Glissando
Figured Bass
Arco
Unrelated Chord
13. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Major Scale Semitones
Development
Imitation by Inversion
Tonic Minor
14. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Countermelody
Subdominant
45
Texture
15. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Retrograde
Development
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Alto Clef
16. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Glissando
Hocket
Diminution
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
17. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Relative (Major/Minor)
Inversions of chords
Perfect Cadence
Arpeggio
18. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Pentatonic Scale
45
Cross Rhythm
Kodaly
19. Occur in all parts.
Harmonic Sequences
Semitone
Phrase
Blues
20. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
Tempo
Retrograde
Rhythm
21. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Monophonic
Supertonic
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
45
22. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
ASCAP
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
5%
Imitation
23. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Dominant
Ostinato
Binary form
Supertonic
24. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Timbre
Natural Minor Scale
Bye - tones
Supertonic
25. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Dalcroze
Inverted Pedal
Polyphonic
Auxiliary Notes
26. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Enharmonic
Introduction
Kodaly
Countermelody
27. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Semitone
Retrograde
Real Sequence
Fanfare
28. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Concert pitch
Tonic
Timbre
Homophonic
29. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Notes of Anticipation
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
AOSA
Sequence
30. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Tenor
A instruments
Contrary motion
Cor Anglais Transposition
31. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Absolute Music
Homophonic
JRME
Interrupted Cadence
32. V - vi
Imitation by Inversion
Interrupted Cadence
Phrase
Tonic
33. E- E
Motif
Auxiliary Notes
Phrygian
Polyphonic
34. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Canon
B flat instruments
Accent
35. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Motif
Hammer on
Reasons for Transposing
Contrary motion
36. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Leading Note
Syncopation
Alto Clef
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
37. General music is required until grade...
Microtone
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
French Horn Transposition
8
38. Combination of aggreable tones.
Tonic Minor
Note that is transposing figured around
Consonance
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
39. 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.
Pedal Point
Imitation by Inversion
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Perfect Cadence
40. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Tempo
Chromatic Scale
C Clefs
Ionian
41. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Concert pitch
Natural Minor Scale
Diminished
Tenor Clef
42. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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43. I - IV - V
Dissonance
ABA
Primary Triads
ASCAP
44. Interval of less than a semitone
Sequence
Imitation by Inversion
Microtone
Imperfect Cadence
45. Organization of musical notes in time.
Cross Rhythm
Reasons for Transposing
Rhythm
Bennet Reimer
46. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
ACDA
Notes of Anticipation
B flat instruments
Melodic Minor Scale
47. Glissando in vocal music
Rhythmic Imitation
Accidentals
Portamento
Supertonic
48. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
ASTA
Absolute Music
Bye - tones
Inversion
49. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Locrian
Canon
Inversion
Cor Anglais Transposition
50. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Tenor Clef
Semitone
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Five finger exercise