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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Accent
Cadence
Unrelated Chord
AOSA
2. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Major Scale Semitones
Microtone
Locrian
Mediant
3. 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.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Phrase
Cor Anglais Transposition
Imitation
4. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
C instruments
Polytonality
Polyphonic
Repetition
5. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Monophonic
Ostinato
ACDA
Bennet Reimer
6. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Leading Note
Pitch
Aeolian
Augmentation
7. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Tenor
Retrograde
Dalcroze
Repetition
8. Sounds a minor third higher.
Register
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Blues
Concert pitch
9. Background support for a melody.
Five finger exercise
Accompaniment
Diminution
Contrary motion
10. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Blues
ASCAP
Interval
Subdominant
11. Organization of musical notes in time.
Harmonic
Rubato
Rhythm
Chromatic
12. A- A
Arco
5
Antiphonal
Aeolian
13. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Tonal Sequence
Arco
Diminution
Leading Note
14. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Hocket
Atonal
Bare chord
15. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Imitation by Inversion
B flat Bass Transposition
A instruments
16. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Major Scale Semitones
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Relative (Major/Minor)
Inversions of chords
17. V - I
Programme Music
Perfect Cadence
Inversions of chords
Notes of Anticipation
18. G- G
Dalcroze
ACDA
Cadence
Mixolydian
19. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Comenius
Monophonic
Inversions of chords
Pulse
20. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Note that is transposing figured around
Ionian
Arco
21. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Harmonic Minor Scale
Alberti Bass
Reasons for Transposing
Arpeggio
22. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Register
Pedal Point
Glissando
23. Maelzel's Metronome
Register
Imitation
Binary form
MM
24. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Rondo Form
Syncopation
Notes of Anticipation
25. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
Imitation
5
Atonal
Melodic Sequences
26. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Consonance
Timbre
Tonic Minor
Imitation by Inversion
27. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Tonic
Anacrusis
Atonal
A instruments
28. How high or low a note is.
Accented Passing Note
Accent
Harmony
Pitch
29. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Cor Anglais Transposition
Portamento
Subdominant
30. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Tenor Clef
Retrograde
Alto Clef
A instruments
31. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Dorian Mode
Bennet Reimer
Smear
Melodic Sequences
32. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
MM
Cadence
Hocket
Notes of Anticipation
33. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Notes of Anticipation
Five finger exercise
Riff
Inversions of chords
34. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
ACDA
Articulation
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
35. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Articulation
Comenius
Contrary motion
Ternary Form
36. Distance between any two notes
Chromatic
Interval
Sequence
Pulse
37. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Tenor Clef
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Phrase
38. Made larger.
Augmented
ABA
Polytonality
Timbre
39. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Coda
Interval
Five finger exercise
Monophonic
40. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
C Clefs
Inverted Pedal
Reasons for Transposing
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
41. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Comenius
Motif
ASTA
42. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Chromatic Scale
Accidentals
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Alberti Bass
43. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Subdominant
Augmented
Absolute Music
Real Sequence
44. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Motif
Homophonic
Imitation by Inversion
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
45. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
B flat Bass Transposition
Atonal
Canon
Interval
46. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Auxiliary Notes
Harmonic Minor Scale
Friedrich Froebel
Inversions of chords
47. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
Alto Clef
Relative (Major/Minor)
Passing Notes
48. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Five finger exercise
Inverted Pedal
Reasons for Transposing
Interrupted Cadence
49. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Polytonality
Tonic
Stretto
Bare chord
50. I - IV - V
Coda
Primary Triads
Harmonic Sequences
Repetition