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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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1. Occur in all parts.
Leading Note
Harmonic Sequences
Bennet Reimer
Ternary Form
2. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
Submediant
Whole Tone Scale
Aeolian
3. General music is required until grade...
8
C Clefs
Anacrusis
Consonance
4. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Arpeggio
Primary Triads
Interval
Blues
5. Third tone in a major or minor scale
AOSA
Timbre
Pull off
Mediant
6. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Plagal Cadence
Phrase
Fragmentation
Notes of Anticipation
7. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Kodaly Method
Real Sequence
Glissando
C instruments
8. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.
Glissando
Rubato
Cadence
Dorian Mode
9. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Dissonance
Monophonic
Imitation by Inversion
10. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Kodaly Method
Countermelody
Phrase
Arco
11. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
45
Arco
Anacrusis
12. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Mixolydian
Polyphonic
Imitation by Inversion
Harmonic
13. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Glissando
Ostinato
45
14. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
ASCAP
Note that is transposing figured around
Alto Clef
5
15. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Anacrusis
Extension
JRME
16. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Rhythmic Imitation
Melody
Ternary Form
Accidentals
17. B- B
Countermelody
Sequence
Contrary motion
Locrian
18. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Kodaly Method
Cadence
Passing Notes
19. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Notes of Anticipation
Atonal
Melodic Minor Scale
20. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Monophonic
Accidentals
Sequence
Submediant
21. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Accent
Inverted Pedal
Aeolian
ASTA
22. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
MM
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Dissonance
23. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Diminution
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
45
Anacrusis
24. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Rhythmic displacement
Tonic Minor
Phrygian
Supertonic
25. I - IV - V
Dominant
Primary Triads
Locrian
A instruments
26. Natural Pitch
Natural Minor Scale
C instruments
5
Chromatic Scale
27. D- D
Melodic Sequences
Reasons for Transposing
Dorian Mode
ABA
28. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Notes of Anticipation
Microtone
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Repetition
29. V - I
Perfect Cadence
Comenius
Accidentals
Bye - tones
30. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Augmented
Tenor Clef
Dorian Mode
ACDA
31. 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.
Harmonic
Fanfare
B flat instruments
ACDA
32. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Homophonic
Dalcroze
Kodaly Method
Harmonic Minor Scale
33. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Lydian
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Coda
Programme Music
34. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
ASTA
Melody
Rhythmic displacement
Binary form
35. Maelzel's Metronome
Contrary motion
MM
Rubato
Locrian
36. C- C
Imperfect Cadence
Augmentation
Dalcroze
Ionian
37. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Bye - tones
Tonal Sequence
Primary Triads
Chromatic
38. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Kodaly Method
B flat instruments
5%
39. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Inversions of chords
Five finger exercise
Tonic Minor
Kodaly Method
40. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
AOSA
Cross Rhythm
Augmented
Contrary motion
41. E- E
Phrygian
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Hocket
Tenor Clef
42. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Perfect Cadence
Coda
Anacrusis
Figured Bass
43. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Antiphonal
Hocket
Tonic
Melody
44. IV - I
Locrian
Tonal Sequence
Rubato
Plagal Cadence
45. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Stretto
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
MM
5
46. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Tempo
Subdominant
Mixolydian
Locrian
47. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Fanfare
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Sequence
48. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Pedal Point
Sequence
Melody
Inversion
49. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Melody
Extension
Whole Tone Scale
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
50. 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.
Cross Rhythm
Imitation
Diminution
Pedal Point