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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Second tone in a major/minor scale






2. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






3. Third tone in a major or minor scale






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






5. Alto and tenor clefs






6. Tone color or quality of sound.






7. 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.






8. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






9. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.






10. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






11. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






12. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






13. 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.






14. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






15. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






16. Pick up bar.






17. 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.






18. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






19. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






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






21. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






22. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






23. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






24. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






25. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






26. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






27. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






28. Organization of musical notes in time.






29. 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.






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






31. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






32. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






33. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






34. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






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






36. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






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






38. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






39. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






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






41. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






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






43. I - V ii - V IV - V






44. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






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






46. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






47. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






48. 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.






49. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






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