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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
AOSA
Timbre
Reasons for Transposing
2. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Friedrich Froebel
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
B flat Bass Transposition
Relative (Major/Minor)
3. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Submediant
Relative (Major/Minor)
C instruments
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
4. Maelzel's Metronome
French Horn Transposition
Inversions of chords
Primary Triads
MM
5. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Tonality
Consonance
Pentatonic Scale
6. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Accompaniment
Imitation
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
7. D- D
Dorian Mode
Alberti Bass
Natural Minor Scale
Accented Passing Note
8. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Inverted Pedal
Enharmonic
Accented Passing Note
Introduction
9. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Anacrusis
Harmonic Sequences
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
10. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Real Sequence
Rondo Form
Articulation
Imitation
11. Glissando in jazz music
Harmonic
Smear
Pitch
Accent
12. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Phrygian
Enharmonic
Kodaly Method
Natural Minor Scale
13. Background support for a melody.
Enharmonic
Diminished
Riff
Accompaniment
14. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Alberti Bass
ASCAP
Ternary Form
Imitation
15. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Comenius
Tonality
Extension
Pentatonic Scale
16. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Kodaly
A instruments
Dorian Mode
Syncopation
17. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Inversion
Fanfare
45
Dalcroze
18. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Atonal
French Horn Transposition
Inverted Pedal
Real Sequence
19. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
Polytonality
Phrygian
Sequence
20. American Choral Director's Association
Rondo Form
Anacrusis
ACDA
B flat Bass Transposition
21. Distance between any two notes
Phrygian
Imitation by Inversion
Interval
Rubato
22. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Dominant
Arco
Riff
Pentatonic Scale
23. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Hammer on
Comenius
ACDA
Cor Anglais Transposition
24. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Melody
Arco
Chromatic Scale
Pulse
25. I - IV - V
Rhythmic displacement
Primary Triads
Atonal
Instruments that transpose at the octave
26. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
Harmony
Tempo
Monophonic
27. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Harmony
Alto Clef
Melodic Sequences
Pentatonic Scale
28. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
Chromatic Scale
ASTA
Fanfare
29. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Bare chord
Blues
Augmented
Hocket
30. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Interrupted Cadence
Mixolydian
Riff
31. 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.
Rondo Form
Pedal Point
Ostinato
Fanfare
32. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Articulation
Homophonic
Melodic Minor Scale
Augmentation
33. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Harmonic Sequences
B flat instruments
ACDA
Note that is transposing figured around
34. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Harmony
Phrase
Appoggiaturas
Unrelated Chord
35. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Passing Notes
Imitation
Semitone
B flat Bass Transposition
36. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Bare chord
Cadence
Polyphonic
Riff
37. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
Relative (Major/Minor)
Melody
Harmony
38. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Consonance
Dominant
Melody
Syncopation
39. Sounds a minor third higher.
ABA
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Whole Tone Scale
Tonic Minor
40. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Syncopation
Ostinato
Tonic Minor
Subdominant
41. General music is required until grade...
8
Retrograde
Passing Notes
Anacrusis
42. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Relative (Major/Minor)
8
Coda
Imitation by Inversion
43. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Appoggiaturas
C instruments
Primary Triads
Canon
44. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Atonal
Melodic Sequences
Interval
ASTA
45. Chord without a third.
Harmonic
Glissando
Monophonic
Bare chord
46. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Sequence
Coda
Harmonic
ACDA
47. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Mixolydian
Inversions of chords
ABA
Cadence
48. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Monophonic
Ostinato
Subdominant
Development
49. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Primary Triads
Supertonic
Consonance
Imitation by Inversion
50. 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.
45
Chromatic
5%
Melodic Minor Scale