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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Real Sequence
Harmonic
Major Scale Semitones
Programme Music
2. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Introduction
Arco
Monophonic
Submediant
3. Combination of aggreable tones.
Consonance
C Clefs
Countermelody
Pedal Point
4. Smallest complete unit of musical form containing about as much as can be held in a normal breath. Can be two to eight bars long.
Tenor
Melodic Minor Scale
Mixolydian
Phrase
5. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Retrograde
C Clefs
Subdominant
Concert pitch
6. Interval of less than a semitone
Notes of Anticipation
Microtone
Aeolian
Bassoon
7. IV - I
Polyphonic
Appoggiaturas
Plagal Cadence
Perfect Cadence
8. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Alberti Bass
Consonance
Figured Bass
Coda
9. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
French Horn Transposition
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Ternary Form
Ionian
10. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Natural Minor Scale
Glissando
Register
Tonal Sequence
11. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
Melodic Minor Scale
Blues
C instruments
Atonal
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.
Plagal Cadence
Alberti Bass
Ternary Form
Enharmonic
13. V - vi
Rhythmic Imitation
Development
Irregular rhythm
Interrupted Cadence
14. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Programme Music
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
MM
15. American Choral Director's Association
Semitone
Blues
ACDA
5
16. 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.
Fragmentation
Inversion
Natural Minor Scale
Binary form
17. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Friedrich Froebel
Arco
Harmony
18. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Harmonic Sequences
Reasons for Transposing
Antiphonal
Inverted Pedal
19. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
JRME
Phrase
Glissando
20. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Diminution
Development
Arco
ACDA
21. Chord without a third.
Mixolydian
Dorian Mode
Whole Tone Scale
Bare chord
22. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Diminished
Glissando
Melody
23. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Interval
Ternary Form
Semitone
Syncopation
24. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Blues
B flat instruments
Riff
Ionian
25. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Tonal Sequence
AOSA
Fanfare
26. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Concert pitch
Inversion
Friedrich Froebel
Alto Clef
27. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Harmonic Minor Scale
ASCAP
Anacrusis
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
28. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Phrygian
Imitation
Mixolydian
Rhythmic displacement
29. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Melodic Sequences
Whole Tone Scale
Blues
Augmentation
30. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Introduction
Diminished
Canon
Imitation
31. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Tonic
Kodaly
Auxiliary Notes
Instruments that transpose at the octave
32. B- B
Natural Minor Scale
Diminution
Locrian
Augmented
33. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Friedrich Froebel
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Auxiliary Notes
Syncopation
34. Sounds a minor third higher.
Antiphonal
Augmented
Primary Triads
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
35. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Cross Rhythm
Accidentals
Stretto
Articulation
36. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
B flat instruments
Enharmonic
MM
Atonal
37. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...
5
MM
Imitation
Locrian
38. 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.
JRME
5%
Aeolian
Subdominant
39. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Augmentation
Tonality
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Tonic
40. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Whole Tone Scale
Mixolydian
Rondo Form
Harmonic Minor Scale
41. A- A
Bare chord
Aeolian
Fragmentation
Texture
42. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Atonal
Tenor Clef
Monophonic
AOSA
43. I - V ii - V IV - V
Augmentation
Imperfect Cadence
Accidentals
Rhythmic displacement
44. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Melodic Minor Scale
Ionian
Chromatic
ASCAP
45. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Tenor
B flat instruments
Development
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
46. G- G
Pulse
Mixolydian
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Mediant
47. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Arpeggio
Homophonic
ASCAP
Irregular rhythm
48. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Smear
ASCAP
Reasons for Transposing
Harmonic Sequences
49. D- D
Dorian Mode
Irregular rhythm
Introduction
Enharmonic
50. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Natural Minor Scale
Locrian
Aeolian
Imitation