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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
B flat instruments
AOSA
Hammer on
Arpeggio
2. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Repetition
Perfect Cadence
Kodaly
Rhythmic Imitation
3. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Pull off
Rhythm
Contrary motion
Tonic
4. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Mediant
Accompaniment
Reasons for Transposing
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
5. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Ionian
Polytonality
Ternary Form
6. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Development
Arco
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Auxiliary Notes
7. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Stretto
Kodaly
Alto Clef
Tenor Clef
8. Natural Pitch
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Enharmonic
Natural Minor Scale
Lydian
9. Maelzel's Metronome
Appoggiaturas
Canon
Ostinato
MM
10. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Arco
Tenor
Contrary motion
Supertonic
11. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Riff
Programme Music
B flat Bass Transposition
12. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Melodic Minor Scale
Rhythmic displacement
Concert pitch
C Clefs
13. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Whole Tone Scale
Imitation
Interrupted Cadence
14. Alto and tenor clefs
Melodic Sequences
C Clefs
Cadence
Accent
15. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Ionian
Tonal Sequence
Melody
Tempo
16. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Primary Triads
Alto Clef
Rhythmic Imitation
Harmonic Sequences
17. V - vi
5
Interrupted Cadence
Rhythmic displacement
Retrograde
18. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Cross Rhythm
Bare chord
Dissonance
Accent
19. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Dalcroze
Submediant
Accompaniment
Unrelated Chord
20. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Atonal
Stretto
Cross Rhythm
French Horn Transposition
21. American Bandmaster's Association
ABA
Timbre
Arco
Mixolydian
22. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Leading Note
Diminution
Atonal
AOSA
23. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Articulation
Phrygian
Accent
Pentatonic Scale
24. Journal of Research for Music Education
JRME
Locrian
Polyphonic
Rondo Form
25. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Contrary motion
Ionian
Chromatic Scale
Arpeggio
26. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
8
Polytonality
B flat Bass Transposition
Inversions of chords
27. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Tonal Sequence
Fanfare
Imitation by Inversion
Unrelated Chord
28. E- E
Notes of Anticipation
Canon
Atonal
Phrygian
29. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Alberti Bass
Harmony
Motif
Melodic Minor Scale
30. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Kodaly Method
Pull off
Accent
Monophonic
31. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Tempo
Glissando
Timbre
Plagal Cadence
32. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Dorian Mode
Cross Rhythm
Dominant
Repetition
33. Middle C
ASCAP
Note that is transposing figured around
Register
Accompaniment
34. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Binary form
ABA
Reasons for Transposing
Cadence
35. Made larger.
ASTA
Augmented
Pulse
Articulation
36. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Melodic Minor Scale
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Friedrich Froebel
Aeolian
37. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Harmonic Sequences
Interval
Bennet Reimer
Dominant
38. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Polytonality
Tempo
Motif
Five finger exercise
39. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Phrase
Alto Clef
Arpeggio
Harmonic Minor Scale
40. 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.
Whole Tone Scale
Introduction
Development
Pedal Point
41. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Friedrich Froebel
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Notes of Anticipation
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
42. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Kodaly
Lydian
Notes of Anticipation
B flat instruments
43. Without key center
Atonal
MM
5%
Phrase
44. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Motif
Pentatonic Scale
Bennet Reimer
Hammer on
45. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Anacrusis
Hocket
Subdominant
Lydian
46. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Ionian
Extension
AOSA
A instruments
47. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Harmony
Alto Clef
Monophonic
Absolute Music
48. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Hammer on
Bye - tones
Microtone
Anacrusis
49. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Homophonic
Supertonic
Syncopation
Tonic Minor
50. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Accidentals
Relative (Major/Minor)
Subdominant
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones