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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Distance between any two notes






2. C- C






3. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






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






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


6. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






7. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






8. General music is required until grade...






9. American String Teachers Assocation






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






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






12. I - V ii - V IV - V






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






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






15. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






16. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






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






18. Chord without a third.






19. V - I






20. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






21. Used by composers in the Baroque period. Numbers underneath the bass line told the performer which chords to play. The bass part was called the continuo. Each number represents an interval between the bass and the note to be supplied.






22. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






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






24. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






25. Sounds a minor third higher.






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






27. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






28. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.






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






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






31. Another word for key.






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






33. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






39. G- G






40. Sounds minor seventh higher.






41. E- E






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






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






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






45. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






46. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






47. Organization of musical notes in time.






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






49. 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.






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