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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Subdominant
C instruments
Contrary motion
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
2. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Accidentals
Supertonic
Retrograde
Ternary Form
3. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Antiphonal
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Primary Triads
Motif
4. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Irregular rhythm
Kodaly
Timbre
Augmentation
5. Scale made entirely of semitones.
ASTA
Chromatic Scale
Articulation
Tonic
6. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Primary Triads
French Horn Transposition
Accidentals
Introduction
7. Made larger.
Augmented
Melodic Minor Scale
Interrupted Cadence
Glissando
8. Combination of aggreable tones.
Consonance
Ternary Form
Augmented
Pull off
9. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Melody
Aeolian
Inversions of chords
Pull off
10. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Friedrich Froebel
Semitone
Development
Alto Clef
11. 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.
ASTA
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Fanfare
12. B- B
5
Harmonic Minor Scale
Locrian
Fanfare
13. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Interval
Diminished
Timbre
14. G- G
Primary Triads
B flat Bass Transposition
Mixolydian
ABA
15. 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.
Pitch
Real Sequence
Motif
Primary Triads
16. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Passing Notes
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Register
Reasons for Transposing
17. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Cadence
Bye - tones
Subdominant
Instruments that transpose at the octave
18. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Reasons for Transposing
Irregular rhythm
Tonality
Arco
19. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Augmentation
Appoggiaturas
ABA
Melodic Sequences
20. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
Passing Notes
B flat instruments
Rhythmic displacement
21. 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.
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Stretto
Alberti Bass
Rondo Form
22. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Ternary Form
Five finger exercise
Chromatic
Accidentals
23. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Rubato
Homophonic
Tempo
Harmonic Minor Scale
24. Sounds a minor third higher.
Countermelody
Pedal Point
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Inversions of chords
25. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Chromatic
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
ASCAP
Rubato
26. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Development
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Polyphonic
Bassoon
27. Made smaller.
Bennet Reimer
Diminished
ABA
Sequence
28. C- C
Chromatic
Pulse
Ionian
Locrian
29. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Cor Anglais Transposition
Pedal Point
Primary Triads
30. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
8
Countermelody
B flat instruments
Microtone
31. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Tonic
Harmonic Sequences
Harmony
32. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Irregular rhythm
Inversions of chords
Tenor
Fragmentation
33. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Absolute Music
Register
Glissando
Relative (Major/Minor)
34. A- A
Homophonic
Appoggiaturas
Arpeggio
Aeolian
35. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Cadence
Rhythmic Imitation
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
C instruments
36. Journal of Research for Music Education
Lydian
JRME
Phrase
Register
37. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Melodic Minor Scale
AOSA
Pull off
Arpeggio
38. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Hammer on
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Mediant
MM
39. D- D
Polytonality
Dorian Mode
Alberti Bass
Diminished
40. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Aeolian
Submediant
Programme Music
Imperfect Cadence
41. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
Friedrich Froebel
Lydian
42. F- F
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Alberti Bass
Harmony
Lydian
43. Sounds minor seventh higher.
Fragmentation
ACDA
Alberti Bass
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
44. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Development
Anacrusis
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Auxiliary Notes
45. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Chromatic
Alberti Bass
Interval
Hocket
46. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Accent
Register
Pentatonic Scale
Anacrusis
47. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
Glissando
Five finger exercise
Fragmentation
48. I - IV - V
Primary Triads
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Bye - tones
Kodaly Method
49. Maelzel's Metronome
Accidentals
MM
Accented Passing Note
ASCAP
50. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Sequence
Friedrich Froebel
Interrupted Cadence
Polyphonic