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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds a minor third higher.
Five finger exercise
Accompaniment
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
2. 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
Arpeggio
Semitone
Tonality
3. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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4. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Antiphonal
Natural Minor Scale
Cadence
Auxiliary Notes
5. Tone color or quality of sound.
C Clefs
Timbre
Interval
Supertonic
6. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Programme Music
Melodic Sequences
Tonality
7. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Harmonic
Interval
Articulation
Diminution
8. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Auxiliary Notes
Polyphonic
Passing Notes
Accent
9. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Melody
Friedrich Froebel
Rhythmic displacement
Bye - tones
10. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
ASCAP
Countermelody
Binary form
Contrary motion
11. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Inversions of chords
Fragmentation
Rhythm
Imitation
12. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Augmentation
Leading Note
Locrian
13. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Phrygian
Tenor Clef
Smear
14. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
A instruments
Dominant
Reasons for Transposing
15. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
45
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
C instruments
16. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Stretto
Fanfare
Cross Rhythm
Tenor Clef
17. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Harmonic Sequences
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Aeolian
Bye - tones
18. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Dissonance
Dominant
45
Submediant
19. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Reasons for Transposing
Imitation
Dissonance
Natural Minor Scale
20. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
Figured Bass
A instruments
Cadence
21. 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.
Mixolydian
Ionian
MM
Pedal Point
22. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Note that is transposing figured around
Diminution
Harmonic Minor Scale
Inversions of chords
23. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Motif
Tonality
Extension
Melodic Minor Scale
24. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Sequence
Harmony
Blues
Cadence
25. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Bennet Reimer
Phrase
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Polyphonic
26. F- F
Supertonic
Natural Minor Scale
Lydian
Retrograde
27. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Absolute Music
Antiphonal
Monophonic
28. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Microtone
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Tempo
29. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Development
Subdominant
Unrelated Chord
Plagal Cadence
30. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Microtone
Supertonic
Inverted Pedal
Harmonic
31. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Appoggiaturas
ACDA
Sequence
Register
32. E- E
Plagal Cadence
Diminution
Phrygian
Polyphonic
33. American Bandmaster's Association
ABA
AOSA
Friedrich Froebel
Alberti Bass
34. Distance between any two notes
Chromatic
Interval
Dissonance
Perfect Cadence
35. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Diminished
Polyphonic
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Semitone
36. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Passing Notes
Inverted Pedal
Alberti Bass
Canon
37. American String Teachers Assocation
Harmonic Sequences
Homophonic
ASTA
Sequence
38. Natural Pitch
Fanfare
Natural Minor Scale
Interrupted Cadence
Accompaniment
39. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Riff
Blues
Bennet Reimer
Tonic Minor
40. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
Submediant
Canon
Inverted Pedal
41. IV - I
Chromatic
Tempo
Alto Clef
Plagal Cadence
42. Made smaller.
ABA
Rondo Form
Diminished
Inversion
43. Musical announcement played on brass instruments before the arrival of an important person. Usually played on trumpets and built from the notes of one major triad.
Register
Fanfare
Reasons for Transposing
Inversions of chords
44. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.
Rubato
Major Scale Semitones
Harmonic
Augmented
45. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Coda
Atonal
Pulse
Melodic Minor Scale
46. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Note that is transposing figured around
Development
Dalcroze
47. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Rhythm
Comenius
Ternary Form
MM
48. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Dissonance
Imitation
Sequence
C instruments
49. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
French Horn Transposition
Bye - tones
Auxiliary Notes
Fanfare
50. V - vi
Fragmentation
Interrupted Cadence
Inverted Pedal
Polytonality