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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






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






4. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






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






6. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






7. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.






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






9. 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.






10. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






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






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






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






14. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






15. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






16. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






17. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






18. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






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






20. 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.






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






22. Between 3/4 and 7/8






23. 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.






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






25. Middle C






26. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






27. Maelzel's Metronome






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






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






30. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






31. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






32. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






33. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






34. Scale made entirely of semitones.






35. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






36. Alto and tenor clefs






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






38. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






39. Chord without a third.






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






41. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






42. G- G






43. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






44. American Choral Director's Association






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






46. Organization of musical notes in time.






47. Consists entirely of whole steps.






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






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






50. American String Teachers Assocation