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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






2. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






3. Alto and tenor clefs






4. Distance between any two notes






5. Highest natural adult male voice






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






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






8. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






9. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






10. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






11. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






12. 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.






13. Consists entirely of whole steps.






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






15. Middle C






16. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






17. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






18. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






19. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






20. Another word for key.






21. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






22. IV - I






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






24. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






25. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.






26. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






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






28. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






29. 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.






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

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31. Pick up bar.






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






33. General music is required until grade...






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






35. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






36. I - V ii - V IV - V






37. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






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






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






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






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






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






43. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






44. Second tone in a major/minor scale






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






46. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






47. E- E






48. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






49. An annual budget is provided for the replacement of school - owned instruments that is equivalent to at least ______ of the current replacement value of the total inventory.






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