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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. 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.






3. A- A






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






9. Another word for key.






10. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






11. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






12. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






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






14. Occur in all parts.






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






16. Interval of less than a semitone






17. Glissando in jazz music






18. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






19. Between 3/4 and 7/8






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






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






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






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






24. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






25. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






26. C- C






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






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






29. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






30. Middle C






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






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






33. Natural Pitch






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






35. Consists entirely of whole steps.






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






37. Maelzel's Metronome






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






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






40. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






41. Third tone in a major or minor scale






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






43. Combination of aggreable tones.






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






45. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






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






47. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.






48. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






49. 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.






50. Distance between any two notes