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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Bennet Reimer
Harmonic Minor Scale
Diminution
Pentatonic Scale
2. Made larger.
Augmented
Five finger exercise
Inversions of chords
Smear
3. Glissando in vocal music
Monophonic
Pull off
Portamento
Phrygian
4. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Pentatonic Scale
Appoggiaturas
Bare chord
5. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
B flat instruments
Concert pitch
Alto Clef
Imitation by Inversion
6. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Whole Tone Scale
Inversion
Diminished
Alberti Bass
7. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Tenor Clef
Ternary Form
Tempo
Fanfare
8. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Figured Bass
C Clefs
Melodic Sequences
Hammer on
9. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Semitone
Melodic Sequences
Tempo
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
10. Maelzel's Metronome
Rubato
Pitch
MM
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
11. Occur in all parts.
Plagal Cadence
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Harmonic Sequences
Friedrich Froebel
12. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Stretto
B flat instruments
Chromatic
Augmentation
13. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Tonic Minor
Irregular rhythm
Harmony
Imitation
14. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Unrelated Chord
Augmented
Perfect Cadence
Pitch
15. American String Teachers Assocation
Note that is transposing figured around
Rhythmic Imitation
Inverted Pedal
ASTA
16. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Arpeggio
Rubato
Ionian
Tonic
17. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Pull off
Accented Passing Note
Accent
Bassoon
18. Pick up bar.
Polytonality
Subdominant
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Anacrusis
19. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Coda
Development
Primary Triads
Kodaly Method
20. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Coda
Register
Pentatonic Scale
Glissando
21. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Plagal Cadence
Tenor
Texture
Notes of Anticipation
22. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Tempo
Rondo Form
Accompaniment
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
23. General music is required until grade...
Cor Anglais Transposition
8
Inversions of chords
Pentatonic Scale
24. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
C Clefs
Harmonic Sequences
Programme Music
Cadence
25. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
Fragmentation
A instruments
45
26. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Augmentation
Fanfare
Accent
Homophonic
27. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Portamento
Dissonance
45
French Horn Transposition
28. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
B flat instruments
Perfect Cadence
Imperfect Cadence
French Horn Transposition
29. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Melodic Sequences
Bennet Reimer
Sequence
Cor Anglais Transposition
30. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Phrygian
Melodic Minor Scale
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Harmonic
31. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
ASCAP
Blues
Tonic Minor
Diminished
32. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Reasons for Transposing
Chromatic Scale
Tonic Minor
Absolute Music
33. Natural Pitch
Ternary Form
Real Sequence
Natural Minor Scale
Register
34. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Kodaly Method
Rhythmic displacement
Subdominant
Augmented
35. Musical announcement played on brass instruments before the arrival of an important person. Usually played on trumpets and built from the notes of one major triad.
Anacrusis
Primary Triads
Texture
Fanfare
36. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Tonic Minor
Imperfect Cadence
Chromatic Scale
Bye - tones
37. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Countermelody
Supertonic
Microtone
Arpeggio
38. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Accent
Hocket
Programme Music
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
39. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Note that is transposing figured around
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Unrelated Chord
40. Highest natural adult male voice
Unrelated Chord
Tenor
Riff
MM
41. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Tempo
Accompaniment
Fragmentation
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
42. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
B flat Bass Transposition
Microtone
Pedal Point
43. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Homophonic
Glissando
Pitch
Perfect Cadence
44. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Alto Clef
Register
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
45. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Accidentals
Friedrich Froebel
Imitation
Supertonic
46. Tone color or quality of sound.
Binary form
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Diminution
Timbre
47. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Bennet Reimer
Accidentals
Polyphonic
Harmonic
48. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Articulation
Fanfare
Bassoon
Notes of Anticipation
49. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Alto Clef
AOSA
Relative (Major/Minor)
Monophonic
50. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Mediant
Inverted Pedal
Pitch
Real Sequence
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