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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Interval of less than a semitone






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






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






4. 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.






5. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






6. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






7. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






8. Highest natural adult male voice






9. American Bandmaster's Association






10. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






11. Without key center






12. Consists entirely of whole steps.






13. V - I






14. Glissando in vocal music






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






16. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






17. D- D






18. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






19. Occur in all parts.






20. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.






21. 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.






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






23. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






24. 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.






25. Chord without a third.






26. B- B






27. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






28. Journal of Research for Music Education






29. American Choral Director's Association






30. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






31. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.






32. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






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






34. 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.






35. Another word for key.






36. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






37. Glissando in jazz music






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






39. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






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






41. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






42. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






43. Sounds a minor third higher.






44. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






45. 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.






46. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






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






48. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






49. Sounds minor seventh higher.






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