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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
5
Ostinato
Polytonality
B flat instruments
2. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Countermelody
Figured Bass
Arpeggio
Register
3. American Choral Director's Association
Rubato
Dorian Mode
Note that is transposing figured around
ACDA
4. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
MM
Accidentals
Five finger exercise
5. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Inversions of chords
Comenius
Five finger exercise
Ternary Form
6. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Diminished
Coda
Harmonic
Imitation
7. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Contrary motion
Supertonic
Canon
Rhythmic displacement
8. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Riff
Bye - tones
Chromatic
Retrograde
9. F- F
Inverted Pedal
Repetition
Lydian
Subdominant
10. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
Harmony
Articulation
Submediant
11. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Inversions of chords
Harmonic Sequences
Accent
Articulation
12. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Alto Clef
Bassoon
French Horn Transposition
Sequence
13. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Auxiliary Notes
Register
Chromatic Scale
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
14. Occur in all parts.
Timbre
Monophonic
Harmonic Sequences
Harmonic
15. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Retrograde
B flat Bass Transposition
Diminution
8
16. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
B flat Bass Transposition
Chromatic Scale
Inversion
Tonal Sequence
17. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Accidentals
8
Polytonality
Semitone
18. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Hocket
Tonic
A instruments
Tonal Sequence
19. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Lydian
Pedal Point
Dorian Mode
AOSA
20. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Arpeggio
Cor Anglais Transposition
Development
B flat instruments
21. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Consonance
Inversions of chords
Friedrich Froebel
Accented Passing Note
22. Highest natural adult male voice
Tenor
Consonance
Bennet Reimer
Concert pitch
23. Made larger.
Development
Fragmentation
Augmented
Pitch
24. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Absolute Music
Inverted Pedal
Polyphonic
25. General music is required until grade...
ASCAP
Arpeggio
8
Anacrusis
26. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Inversion
Diminished
Hocket
Homophonic
27. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Fragmentation
Melodic Minor Scale
Reasons for Transposing
28. Without key center
5%
Atonal
Interrupted Cadence
Ternary Form
29. Natural Pitch
Natural Minor Scale
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
A instruments
Bennet Reimer
30. 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.
Binary form
Homophonic
Consonance
Tonality
31. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Antiphonal
Hammer on
Cross Rhythm
Unrelated Chord
32. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Homophonic
Absolute Music
Supertonic
Ostinato
33. I - IV - V
Pentatonic Scale
ABA
Primary Triads
Figured Bass
34. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
AOSA
Imitation by Inversion
Enharmonic
Chromatic Scale
35. Interval of less than a semitone
Figured Bass
A instruments
Microtone
C Clefs
36. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Major Scale Semitones
A instruments
Mediant
Natural Minor Scale
37. 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.
C Clefs
Melodic Sequences
Tenor
Glissando
38. Scale made entirely of semitones.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Chromatic Scale
Melodic Minor Scale
Cadence
39. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
Appoggiaturas
Accent
Antiphonal
40. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Irregular rhythm
Polyphonic
Tempo
Cadence
41. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Passing Notes
Atonal
Semitone
AOSA
42. 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.
C Clefs
ACDA
Fanfare
Real Sequence
43. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Figured Bass
Polyphonic
C Clefs
Kodaly
44. V - I
Accented Passing Note
Enharmonic
Perfect Cadence
Contrary motion
45. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Semitone
Phrase
Cross Rhythm
46. Sounds a minor third higher.
Imperfect Cadence
8
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Arco
47. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
B flat instruments
Introduction
Notes of Anticipation
Mediant
48. V - vi
Friedrich Froebel
Interrupted Cadence
Diminished
Bye - tones
49. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Bennet Reimer
45
Lydian
50. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Rhythmic Imitation
Ternary Form
Anacrusis
AOSA
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