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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Sounds minor seventh higher.






2. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






3. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






4. Sounds a minor third higher.






5. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






6. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






7. How high or low a note is.






8. Combination of aggreable tones.






9. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)






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






11. Distance between any two notes






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






13. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






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






15. A- A






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






17. Middle C






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






19. American Choral Director's Association






20. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






22. Tone color or quality of sound.






23. Consists entirely of whole steps.






24. 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.






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






26. IV - I






27. Glissando in vocal music






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






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






30. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.






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






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






33. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






34. 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.






35. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






36. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.






37. Alto and tenor clefs






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






39. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






40. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






41. 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.






42. Made smaller.






43. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






44. Glissando in jazz music






45. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






46. Third tone in a major or minor scale






47. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

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






49. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






50. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave