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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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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
Tonic
Imperfect Cadence
Microtone
2. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Rubato
Tonic Minor
ASCAP
C instruments
3. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Inverted Pedal
Rubato
Phrase
4. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Dominant
Programme Music
Pulse
5. E- E
Tenor
45
Perfect Cadence
Phrygian
6. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Portamento
B flat instruments
Perfect Cadence
Tempo
7. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Imitation by Inversion
Chromatic Scale
Retrograde
Relative (Major/Minor)
8. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Articulation
Tenor
Polytonality
Coda
9. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Imitation by Inversion
Submediant
C instruments
Kodaly
10. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Harmonic
Melody
AOSA
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
11. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
AOSA
Hocket
Accent
Five finger exercise
12. 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.
Tonic
Alberti Bass
Rhythm
Homophonic
13. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Antiphonal
Pull off
Melodic Minor Scale
Auxiliary Notes
14. 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.
Fragmentation
Glissando
Pull off
5%
15. I - V ii - V IV - V
Rhythmic Imitation
Blues
Augmentation
Imperfect Cadence
16. General music is required until grade...
Inverted Pedal
Rhythmic Imitation
8
Polytonality
17. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Primary Triads
8
Hammer on
A instruments
18. 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.
Tenor
Retrograde
Figured Bass
Rubato
19. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Appoggiaturas
French Horn Transposition
Timbre
Reasons for Transposing
20. Chord without a third.
Atonal
Bare chord
Alberti Bass
Ternary Form
21. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Tonic
B flat instruments
Whole Tone Scale
Repetition
22. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Natural Minor Scale
Hocket
Polytonality
Harmony
23. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
5
Tonic Minor
Monophonic
Bye - tones
24. Occur in all parts.
Harmonic Sequences
Development
Homophonic
Alberti Bass
25. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Notes of Anticipation
Harmonic
Bassoon
Tonic Minor
26. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Register
Imitation by Inversion
Smear
Texture
27. C- C
Arpeggio
Inverted Pedal
Ionian
ASTA
28. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Lydian
Ternary Form
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
5%
29. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Repetition
Interrupted Cadence
Comenius
Contrary motion
30. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Figured Bass
Motif
ACDA
Fragmentation
31. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Atonal
Register
Rubato
Pitch
32. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Extension
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Rondo Form
Glissando
33. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
Harmonic Minor Scale
Five finger exercise
Motif
34. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Dominant
Hocket
Phrase
Concert pitch
35. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Accented Passing Note
Ternary Form
Leading Note
Submediant
36. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Primary Triads
Interrupted Cadence
Absolute Music
37. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
45
5
Stretto
Aeolian
38. Distance between any two notes
Perfect Cadence
Interval
Monophonic
Kodaly
39. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Portamento
Major Scale Semitones
Ternary Form
Riff
40. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
B flat Bass Transposition
Articulation
Rhythm
Portamento
41. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Real Sequence
Pedal Point
Bare chord
45
42. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Register
Tonic
43. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Dorian Mode
Alberti Bass
Fanfare
Melodic Minor Scale
44. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Blues
Harmonic
Auxiliary Notes
Cor Anglais Transposition
45. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Blues
Fanfare
Bassoon
Consonance
46. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Inverted Pedal
Imitation
Enharmonic
B flat instruments
47. B- B
Locrian
Binary form
Glissando
Alberti Bass
48. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
B flat instruments
Imitation by Inversion
Major Scale Semitones
Appoggiaturas
49. Another word for key.
8
Tonality
Smear
Phrase
50. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Timbre
Augmentation
Syncopation
Tonal Sequence