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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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1. Made larger.
Augmented
Arco
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Appoggiaturas
2. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
5%
Locrian
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Harmony
3. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Development
Lydian
Extension
Instruments that transpose at the octave
4. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Glissando
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Mediant
Tonic
5. How high or low a note is.
Pitch
Tempo
Rubato
Melodic Sequences
6. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Five finger exercise
Major Scale Semitones
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
MM
7. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Fanfare
Alto Clef
Imperfect Cadence
8. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Blues
Kodaly Method
Diminution
Texture
9. I - IV - V
Primary Triads
French Horn Transposition
Dissonance
Augmentation
10. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Chromatic
ASCAP
Augmentation
Atonal
11. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Pitch
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Irregular rhythm
12. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Hocket
Pentatonic Scale
ASCAP
Tonic Minor
13. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Rhythmic Imitation
Countermelody
Repetition
Harmonic
14. Tone color or quality of sound.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Timbre
C Clefs
Bye - tones
15. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
A instruments
Sequence
C Clefs
Accidentals
16. A- A
Aeolian
A instruments
Melodic Sequences
Friedrich Froebel
17. V - I
Submediant
Interval
Coda
Perfect Cadence
18. Organization of musical notes in time.
Rhythm
Accented Passing Note
Syncopation
Chromatic Scale
19. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Unrelated Chord
Extension
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Augmented
20. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Imitation
ABA
Stretto
Imitation by Inversion
21. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
ASTA
Bye - tones
Fanfare
Arco
22. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Dalcroze
Tonic Minor
Riff
23. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Polytonality
Programme Music
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
24. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.
Alberti Bass
Bennet Reimer
Inversions of chords
Harmonic
25. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Extension
Cor Anglais Transposition
Phrygian
Tonic
26. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Homophonic
Auxiliary Notes
Rhythmic displacement
Interval
27. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Augmented
Plagal Cadence
Friedrich Froebel
Motif
28. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Programme Music
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
JRME
Alto Clef
29. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Submediant
Imperfect Cadence
Glissando
Pulse
30. Sounds a minor third higher.
C instruments
Fanfare
5
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
31. 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.
Hocket
Phrase
Supertonic
Melodic Minor Scale
32. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
ASTA
Diminished
Portamento
Submediant
33. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Tempo
Bassoon
Rhythmic Imitation
Dorian Mode
34. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
B flat instruments
Alto Clef
Dissonance
35. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Rhythmic displacement
Fragmentation
Binary form
Accented Passing Note
36. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Imitation by Inversion
Inversions of chords
C instruments
Rhythmic Imitation
37. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Supertonic
Five finger exercise
Bassoon
Antiphonal
38. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Dalcroze
Augmentation
Supertonic
Figured Bass
39. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
B flat instruments
Tonic Minor
Canon
Alto Clef
40. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Ionian
Augmented
Locrian
Melodic Minor Scale
41. Chord without a third.
Pulse
Leading Note
Bare chord
Concert pitch
42. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Natural Minor Scale
Mediant
Interval
Semitone
43. F- F
Diminution
Monophonic
Lydian
Mixolydian
44. Distance between any two notes
5
Arpeggio
Arco
Interval
45. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
B flat instruments
Imitation by Inversion
Kodaly Method
Rondo Form
46. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Tonality
Dissonance
Notes of Anticipation
Relative (Major/Minor)
47. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Augmented
Tonal Sequence
Auxiliary Notes
Primary Triads
48. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Pedal Point
Chromatic
Tonic
Melody
49. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
C Clefs
Plagal Cadence
Comenius
Melody
50. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
French Horn Transposition
Real Sequence
Tenor
Melodic Sequences