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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. American Bandmaster's Association






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






3. I - IV - V






4. American Choral Director's Association






5. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






6. Glissando in jazz music






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






8. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






9. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






10. Organization of musical notes in time.






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






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






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






14. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






15. How high or low a note is.






16. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






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






18. General music is required until grade...






19. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






20. A- A






21. Alto and tenor clefs






22. G- G






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

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






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






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






27. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






28. Consists entirely of whole steps.






29. F- F






30. Without key center






31. B- B






32. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






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






34. V - I






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






41. Sounds a minor third higher.






42. 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.






43. Combination of aggreable tones.






44. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






45. E- E






46. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






47. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






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






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






50. C- C