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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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performing-arts
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1. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Accent
Ternary Form
Homophonic
Hocket
2. American Bandmaster's Association
Motif
ABA
Countermelody
Syncopation
3. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Anacrusis
Cross Rhythm
Diminished
4. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
45
Polytonality
Programme Music
Augmentation
5. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Absolute Music
Accented Passing Note
Inversion
6. D- D
Dorian Mode
Hocket
Five finger exercise
French Horn Transposition
7. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Rondo Form
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Phrase
Note that is transposing figured around
8. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
8
Dorian Mode
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Repetition
9. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Rhythmic Imitation
Accent
Inversions of chords
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
10. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Reasons for Transposing
Pull off
Irregular rhythm
Alberti Bass
11. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Antiphonal
Consonance
Subdominant
Repetition
12. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Subdominant
Arco
Monophonic
Melody
13. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Accidentals
Perfect Cadence
Real Sequence
Inverted Pedal
14. Sounds minor seventh higher.
ASCAP
Timbre
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Reasons for Transposing
15. I - IV - V
Figured Bass
Chromatic Scale
Primary Triads
Antiphonal
16. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Arco
Submediant
Natural Minor Scale
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
17. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Lydian
Cadence
Ostinato
Stretto
18. Highest natural adult male voice
Programme Music
5
Tenor
Alto Clef
19. Another word for key.
Concert pitch
Lydian
Cross Rhythm
Tonality
20. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Melodic Sequences
Bye - tones
45
Fragmentation
21. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Augmented
Pentatonic Scale
Tonality
Dorian Mode
22. 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.
B flat instruments
Binary form
Contrary motion
Melodic Sequences
23. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Comenius
ASTA
Rubato
Friedrich Froebel
24. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Polytonality
45
Kodaly
Extension
25. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Comenius
Phrygian
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
26. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Glissando
Supertonic
A instruments
Fragmentation
27. Occur in all parts.
Tenor
Pitch
Primary Triads
Harmonic Sequences
28. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Fragmentation
Phrase
Diminished
Major Scale Semitones
29. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
Plagal Cadence
Accent
Ionian
30. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Tonic
Primary Triads
Chromatic Scale
Accent
31. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Locrian
Leading Note
Harmonic Minor Scale
Accented Passing Note
32. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
C Clefs
Dissonance
5%
Rhythmic displacement
33. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
C instruments
Consonance
ASCAP
Inverted Pedal
34. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Subdominant
Diminution
Melodic Sequences
Fanfare
35. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
5%
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Contrary motion
Arco
36. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Retrograde
Augmented
Friedrich Froebel
Note that is transposing figured around
37. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Riff
Concert pitch
Chromatic Scale
Sequence
38. Without key center
Atonal
B flat instruments
Pulse
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
39. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Harmonic
Figured Bass
Blues
Interval
40. American String Teachers Assocation
Semitone
ASTA
Relative (Major/Minor)
Antiphonal
41. 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.
French Horn Transposition
Harmonic
AOSA
Rubato
42. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Bye - tones
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Imitation
Timbre
43. 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.
Pedal Point
ASCAP
Tonality
B flat instruments
44. Made smaller.
Tonic
Diminished
ASCAP
Imperfect Cadence
45. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Dominant
Melodic Minor Scale
Ternary Form
Semitone
46. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Tenor
Interrupted Cadence
Dalcroze
Alto Clef
47. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Polytonality
Irregular rhythm
Syncopation
Natural Minor Scale
48. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
5%
MM
B flat instruments
Tempo
49. A- A
Aeolian
Arpeggio
Auxiliary Notes
Supertonic
50. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Riff
Rhythmic Imitation
Hocket