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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Melodic Sequences
Coda
8
Retrograde
2. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Anacrusis
Syncopation
Real Sequence
Rhythmic displacement
3. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Smear
Auxiliary Notes
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Chromatic Scale
4. Natural Pitch
Fragmentation
Natural Minor Scale
Phrygian
Rubato
5. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
MM
Smear
Bennet Reimer
Subdominant
6. 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
Fragmentation
Real Sequence
Portamento
7. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Syncopation
Arco
Fanfare
Leading Note
8. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Blues
Programme Music
Introduction
Antiphonal
9. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches
Alto Clef
Friedrich Froebel
Reasons for Transposing
Inverted Pedal
10. Alto and tenor clefs
Mediant
C Clefs
Articulation
Harmonic Sequences
11. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Auxiliary Notes
Accented Passing Note
45
Pulse
12. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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13. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Motif
Comenius
Glissando
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
14. Tone color or quality of sound.
Timbre
Reasons for Transposing
Rhythm
Stretto
15. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
B flat instruments
Concert pitch
Irregular rhythm
Auxiliary Notes
16. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Ternary Form
Pentatonic Scale
Syncopation
Natural Minor Scale
17. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Bennet Reimer
Unrelated Chord
Perfect Cadence
Lydian
18. D- D
Relative (Major/Minor)
Dorian Mode
Binary form
Bennet Reimer
19. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Extension
Polyphonic
Rubato
Melodic Sequences
20. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Binary form
Consonance
Bassoon
Smear
21. IV - I
5%
Bare chord
Plagal Cadence
Blues
22. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Enharmonic
Cadence
Diminution
23. Sounds a minor third higher.
Melodic Minor Scale
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Tonal Sequence
Alberti Bass
24. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
C instruments
Rhythmic Imitation
Arpeggio
Riff
25. Glissando in jazz music
Coda
Bye - tones
Accidentals
Smear
26. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Dominant
B flat instruments
Diminution
Tenor Clef
27. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.
French Horn Transposition
Tempo
ASTA
Fragmentation
28. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Pull off
Melodic Sequences
Diminished
Consonance
29. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Bennet Reimer
Syncopation
Major Scale Semitones
Imitation
30. Made larger.
Augmented
Riff
Phrygian
Hocket
31. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Pedal Point
Pitch
Chromatic Scale
Mediant
32. 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.
MM
Semitone
Fanfare
Motif
33. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Whole Tone Scale
Countermelody
Submediant
Imitation
34. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Consonance
Dominant
Dissonance
Whole Tone Scale
35. Distance between any two notes
ABA
Arpeggio
Harmony
Interval
36. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Hammer on
Contrary motion
Atonal
Five finger exercise
37. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Antiphonal
Leading Note
Ternary Form
Sequence
38. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Note that is transposing figured around
5%
ASCAP
Arpeggio
39. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
ASCAP
Inverted Pedal
Register
Tenor
40. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Pedal Point
Natural Minor Scale
Dissonance
Melodic Sequences
41. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Phrase
Lydian
Cross Rhythm
Stretto
42. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Rhythm
Major Scale Semitones
Notes of Anticipation
Articulation
43. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Tonal Sequence
Motif
Five finger exercise
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
44. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Rhythmic displacement
Programme Music
Semitone
Hocket
45. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Relative (Major/Minor)
Primary Triads
Microtone
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
46. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
Bassoon
Consonance
Extension
47. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Accidentals
Tonic
Sequence
Pentatonic Scale
48. Glissando in vocal music
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Contrary motion
Notes of Anticipation
Portamento
49. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.
Inversions of chords
8
Glissando
Reasons for Transposing
50. C- C
Ionian
Harmonic Sequences
Inversions of chords
C instruments