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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. 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.
Harmonic Minor Scale
Mixolydian
Blues
Figured Bass
2. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Mixolydian
Tonal Sequence
Hocket
Appoggiaturas
3. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Dominant
Inverted Pedal
Bye - tones
Imperfect Cadence
4. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Imitation
Plagal Cadence
Coda
Arpeggio
5. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Diminished
Leading Note
Rubato
Imitation
6. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Perfect Cadence
Melodic Sequences
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Augmentation
7. Glissando in vocal music
Portamento
8
Appoggiaturas
Repetition
8. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Mixolydian
Unrelated Chord
Accompaniment
Submediant
9. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Five finger exercise
Augmented
Interrupted Cadence
Leading Note
10. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Harmonic Minor Scale
Canon
Accidentals
Bye - tones
11. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
45
AOSA
Atonal
Register
12. C- C
Cadence
Ionian
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Real Sequence
13. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Blues
Tempo
Repetition
Diminished
14. Pick up bar.
Cadence
Rhythmic Imitation
Anacrusis
Syncopation
15. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Introduction
Major Scale Semitones
Tonal Sequence
Enharmonic
16. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Retrograde
Notes of Anticipation
Harmonic Minor Scale
Motif
17. V - I
Inversions of chords
Perfect Cadence
Melody
Augmentation
18. Interval of less than a semitone
Enharmonic
Microtone
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
19. How high or low a note is.
Accent
Subdominant
Pitch
Rhythmic displacement
20. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Irregular rhythm
B flat Bass Transposition
Smear
Pentatonic Scale
21. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Contrary motion
B flat instruments
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Melodic Minor Scale
22. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Accented Passing Note
Augmentation
A instruments
French Horn Transposition
23. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Polyphonic
Introduction
Arpeggio
Friedrich Froebel
24. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Monophonic
Augmented
Coda
Cadence
25. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Binary form
Comenius
Monophonic
Mediant
26. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
B flat instruments
Ostinato
Anacrusis
Stretto
27. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
B flat instruments
Coda
Chromatic
Dorian Mode
28. American String Teachers Assocation
45
Comenius
Arco
ASTA
29. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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30. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Accented Passing Note
Irregular rhythm
C Clefs
Pulse
31. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Syncopation
JRME
Concert pitch
Kodaly
32. Made larger.
Harmonic Sequences
Augmented
Bare chord
Canon
33. Organization of musical notes in time.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
5
Rhythm
Chromatic Scale
34. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
Imitation
B flat instruments
Rhythm
35. Occur in all parts.
Harmonic Sequences
Stretto
45
B flat Bass Transposition
36. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Tonal Sequence
Monophonic
Lydian
37. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Concert pitch
Semitone
Consonance
Coda
38. 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.
C instruments
Glissando
Pedal Point
Supertonic
39. American Bandmaster's Association
Rhythm
Ionian
Augmented
ABA
40. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Inverted Pedal
Harmonic
Submediant
Harmonic Minor Scale
41. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Homophonic
Harmonic
Five finger exercise
Development
42. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Natural Minor Scale
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Motif
Rhythm
43. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Accidentals
5%
Melody
Glissando
44. V - vi
Introduction
Kodaly Method
Harmony
Interrupted Cadence
45. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Mixolydian
Motif
Auxiliary Notes
Monophonic
46. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Enharmonic
Mixolydian
Blues
Instruments that transpose at the octave
47. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Harmonic
Five finger exercise
Harmony
B flat instruments
48. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Major Scale Semitones
Cadence
Kodaly
Phrygian
49. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Ionian
Irregular rhythm
Bassoon
ACDA
50. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Primary Triads
Rhythmic displacement
C Clefs
Tonic Minor