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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Leading Note
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Texture
Chromatic
2. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Subdominant
Arpeggio
Rhythmic displacement
Irregular rhythm
3. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Chromatic
Retrograde
Tenor Clef
Pedal Point
4. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Pentatonic Scale
Interval
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Stretto
5. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Canon
Fragmentation
Pulse
Pentatonic Scale
6. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Stretto
Aeolian
Chromatic Scale
Notes of Anticipation
7. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Accent
Glissando
Diminished
Tempo
8. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Harmony
Articulation
Tonality
Bennet Reimer
9. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Dominant
Chromatic Scale
Passing Notes
Ionian
10. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Appoggiaturas
Harmonic Minor Scale
Aeolian
Phrygian
11. Distance between any two notes
45
Motif
Interval
Tempo
12. D- D
Tonic Minor
Inverted Pedal
Dorian Mode
Motif
13. 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.
Phrase
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Imitation
C Clefs
14. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Pitch
Coda
Kodaly
Diminished
15. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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16. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Anacrusis
Programme Music
B flat Bass Transposition
Leading Note
17. A- A
Register
Imitation by Inversion
Interrupted Cadence
Aeolian
18. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
C instruments
ASCAP
Programme Music
Relative (Major/Minor)
19. Tone color or quality of sound.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Tenor
Bye - tones
Timbre
20. B- B
Augmentation
Tonal Sequence
Locrian
Lydian
21. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Supertonic
Retrograde
5
Cross Rhythm
22. Made smaller.
Diminished
Mixolydian
8
Augmentation
23. Journal of Research for Music Education
5%
5
JRME
Fragmentation
24. Glissando in vocal music
Primary Triads
Portamento
Melodic Minor Scale
Blues
25. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Notes of Anticipation
Natural Minor Scale
Stretto
Tonal Sequence
26. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Tenor Clef
Semitone
Microtone
Anacrusis
27. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Bye - tones
Countermelody
Unrelated Chord
Aeolian
28. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Melody
Comenius
8
Tenor
29. 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.
Natural Minor Scale
Motif
C Clefs
Binary form
30. Middle C
Dominant
Interrupted Cadence
Bassoon
Note that is transposing figured around
31. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Retrograde
Friedrich Froebel
Syncopation
Antiphonal
32. Glissando in jazz music
Polytonality
Smear
Appoggiaturas
Auxiliary Notes
33. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
A instruments
Kodaly
Imitation by Inversion
Passing Notes
34. How high or low a note is.
Blues
5
Development
Pitch
35. 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.
Introduction
Pull off
Monophonic
5%
36. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Atonal
Canon
Inverted Pedal
Concert pitch
37. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
Pulse
Lydian
French Horn Transposition
ACDA
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.
Hammer on
Submediant
Inverted Pedal
Pedal Point
39. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
B flat instruments
5%
Rondo Form
Accent
40. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Harmonic Minor Scale
ASCAP
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Five finger exercise
41. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Whole Tone Scale
Homophonic
Leading Note
Appoggiaturas
42. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Phrase
Register
Alto Clef
Sequence
43. E- E
Stretto
Coda
Phrygian
Motif
44. Alto and tenor clefs
French Horn Transposition
C Clefs
Extension
Plagal Cadence
45. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Primary Triads
Subdominant
Diminution
Friedrich Froebel
46. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Tonic
Arpeggio
Dominant
Comenius
47. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Coda
Consonance
Supertonic
Dorian Mode
48. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Inverted Pedal
5
Lydian
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
49. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Riff
Absolute Music
Tonic
Semitone
50. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Hocket
Pitch
B flat instruments
Fragmentation