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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.






2. Made larger.






3. Glissando in vocal music






4. Third tone in a major or minor scale






5. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






6. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






7. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






8. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






9. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






10. Maelzel's Metronome






11. Occur in all parts.






12. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






13. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






14. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






15. American String Teachers Assocation






16. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






17. An unessential note that falls on the beat






18. Pick up bar.






19. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






20. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






21. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






22. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






23. General music is required until grade...






24. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






25. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






26. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






27. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






28. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






29. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






30. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






31. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






32. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.






33. Natural Pitch






34. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






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.






36. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






37. Second tone in a major/minor scale






38. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






39. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






40. Highest natural adult male voice






41. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






42. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






43. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






44. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






45. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






46. Tone color or quality of sound.






47. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






48. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






49. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






50. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.







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