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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






2. Pick up bar.






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






4. 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.






5. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






6. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






7. Natural Pitch






8. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






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






10. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






11. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






12. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






13. 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.






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






15. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






16. I - IV - V






17. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






18. American String Teachers Assocation






19. Background support for a melody.






20. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






21. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






22. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






23. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






24. 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.






25. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.


26. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






27. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






28. 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.






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






30. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






31. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






32. Alto and tenor clefs






33. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






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






35. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






36. V - I






37. Glissando in jazz music






38. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






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






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






41. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






42. Made smaller.






43. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






44. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






45. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






46. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






47. C- C






48. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






49. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






50. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.