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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. 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.
45
Pulse
Pentatonic Scale
Glissando
2. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Inverted Pedal
Relative (Major/Minor)
Polyphonic
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
3. E- E
Five finger exercise
Register
Perfect Cadence
Phrygian
4. American Bandmaster's Association
Blues
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
ABA
Ionian
5. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Absolute Music
Countermelody
Antiphonal
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
6. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Supertonic
Repetition
Arpeggio
Alto Clef
7. American Choral Director's Association
ACDA
Cor Anglais Transposition
Contrary motion
Imitation by Inversion
8. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Enharmonic
Accidentals
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Passing Notes
9. 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.
Retrograde
Articulation
Motif
Leading Note
10. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Natural Minor Scale
ABA
5
11. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Harmony
Ionian
Blues
8
12. V - I
Perfect Cadence
Development
45
Chromatic
13. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Ostinato
Harmonic Sequences
Bye - tones
Aeolian
14. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Accented Passing Note
Tonality
Accidentals
ACDA
15. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Ostinato
Coda
Stretto
Sequence
16. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Instruments that transpose at the octave
JRME
17. 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.
Interrupted Cadence
Natural Minor Scale
Homophonic
Pedal Point
18. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Appoggiaturas
Contrary motion
Inversions of chords
Cor Anglais Transposition
19. I - V ii - V IV - V
Tonic Minor
Tenor Clef
Semitone
Imperfect Cadence
20. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
French Horn Transposition
Tempo
Rhythmic Imitation
Binary form
21. Combination of aggreable tones.
Augmentation
Timbre
Retrograde
Consonance
22. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Retrograde
5%
Tonic
Phrygian
23. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Interrupted Cadence
Arco
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Chromatic
24. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Canon
Reasons for Transposing
Smear
25. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
Cor Anglais Transposition
Alto Clef
Rubato
26. Background support for a melody.
Pulse
French Horn Transposition
Accompaniment
Perfect Cadence
27. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Alberti Bass
Primary Triads
Arco
Notes of Anticipation
28. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Alberti Bass
Figured Bass
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Lydian
29. Made smaller.
Mixolydian
Diminished
Arco
Natural Minor Scale
30. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Sequence
Programme Music
Diminution
Lydian
31. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
JRME
Harmony
Comenius
8
32. V - vi
Interrupted Cadence
Cross Rhythm
Harmonic Sequences
Texture
33. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Hammer on
Syncopation
B flat instruments
34. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Kodaly
Harmonic Minor Scale
B flat instruments
Interval
35. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
ASCAP
Fragmentation
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Development
36. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Auxiliary Notes
Diminished
Pentatonic Scale
Friedrich Froebel
37. General music is required until grade...
Polytonality
8
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Imitation
38. G- G
Rhythmic Imitation
Bare chord
Mixolydian
Natural Minor Scale
39. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Microtone
Major Scale Semitones
A instruments
Imperfect Cadence
40. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Tenor
Programme Music
Figured Bass
Imitation by Inversion
41. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Tonic
Cross Rhythm
Diminished
ACDA
42. B- B
Binary form
Locrian
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Blues
43. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Supertonic
Dominant
Ostinato
Rhythmic Imitation
44. A- A
Pulse
Augmentation
Imitation by Inversion
Aeolian
45. Sounds minor seventh higher.
C Clefs
Kodaly
Relative (Major/Minor)
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
46. 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.
5%
Programme Music
Imitation
Relative (Major/Minor)
47. F- F
Aeolian
Lydian
Syncopation
Glissando
48. IV - I
Supertonic
Appoggiaturas
Plagal Cadence
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
49. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Bye - tones
5
Blues
Riff
50. Tone color or quality of sound.
Chromatic Scale
Irregular rhythm
JRME
Timbre