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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Fragmentation
Pedal Point
Texture
Repetition
2. Journal of Research for Music Education
Interval
Alto Clef
Pulse
JRME
3. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Whole Tone Scale
Register
ACDA
4. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Alto Clef
Cor Anglais Transposition
Hocket
Passing Notes
5. Distance between any two notes
Inversion
Timbre
Major Scale Semitones
Interval
6. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Programme Music
Notes of Anticipation
Five finger exercise
Pentatonic Scale
7. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Harmonic
Figured Bass
Blues
Contrary motion
8. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Tonic
Arpeggio
Pentatonic Scale
Enharmonic
9. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Timbre
B flat instruments
Pull off
Bassoon
10. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Notes of Anticipation
Pulse
B flat instruments
Polyphonic
11. Background support for a melody.
Accompaniment
Tenor Clef
Smear
Semitone
12. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Kodaly
Microtone
A instruments
Melody
13. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Riff
Hammer on
Repetition
14. G- G
AOSA
Supertonic
Mixolydian
Bye - tones
15. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Imperfect Cadence
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
Arco
16. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Register
Fanfare
Tenor
Smear
17. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Notes of Anticipation
Arco
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Atonal
18. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Appoggiaturas
Atonal
Unrelated Chord
Five finger exercise
19. Another word for key.
Rhythmic displacement
Tonality
Repetition
Accented Passing Note
20. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Submediant
Real Sequence
8
Harmonic Minor Scale
21. American String Teachers Assocation
Rondo Form
ASTA
Tonic Minor
AOSA
22. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Pull off
Primary Triads
Comenius
Mediant
23. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Inversion
Plagal Cadence
Accidentals
Imitation by Inversion
24. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Accidentals
Harmonic Sequences
Repetition
25. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Bassoon
Absolute Music
ASCAP
Cor Anglais Transposition
26. 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.
Motif
Harmony
Binary form
Alberti Bass
27. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Dalcroze
ACDA
Tonic
Plagal Cadence
28. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
ASTA
Bassoon
Consonance
Ternary Form
29. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Hocket
Coda
Dominant
Portamento
30. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Aeolian
Diminution
A instruments
ASCAP
31. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Harmonic
Rhythmic displacement
32. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Hocket
Chromatic
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Five finger exercise
33. Occur in all parts.
Harmonic Sequences
Submediant
Dalcroze
Rubato
34. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Accompaniment
Diminution
Tenor Clef
Pulse
35. Sounds minor seventh higher.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Comenius
Tonic Minor
Bassoon
36. American Choral Director's Association
Accent
Harmonic Sequences
ACDA
Dominant
37. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Fanfare
Harmonic Sequences
Interrupted Cadence
Imitation by Inversion
38. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Harmony
ABA
Syncopation
Tempo
39. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
Harmonic Minor Scale
Primary Triads
Dominant
40. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
5%
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Fragmentation
Appoggiaturas
41. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Inverted Pedal
Chromatic Scale
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
42. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
8
Texture
Rondo Form
Stretto
43. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Cadence
Microtone
Ostinato
Kodaly Method
44. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Fanfare
Development
Accidentals
Relative (Major/Minor)
45. Highest natural adult male voice
Chromatic Scale
Interval
Tenor
MM
46. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Smear
Semitone
Riff
B flat Bass Transposition
47. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Submediant
A instruments
Rubato
Hammer on
48. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
ASCAP
Inversions of chords
Diminution
Tonal Sequence
49. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
5
C Clefs
Rhythmic Imitation
Bennet Reimer
50. IV - I
Antiphonal
Plagal Cadence
Tonality
Subdominant