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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






3. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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






5. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






6. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






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






8. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






9. C- C






10. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






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






12. Interval of less than a semitone






13. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






14. Second tone in a major/minor scale






15. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






16. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






17. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






18. Between 3/4 and 7/8






19. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






20. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






21. Combination of aggreable tones.






22. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






23. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






24. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






25. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






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






27. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






28. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






29. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






30. Another word for key.






31. Without key center






32. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






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






34. Occur in all parts.






35. IV - I






36. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






37. V - I






38. Chord without a third.






39. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






40. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






41. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






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






43. I - V ii - V IV - V






44. Tone color or quality of sound.






45. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.






46. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line






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






48. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






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






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