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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






3. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






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






5. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






7. Made larger.






8. Combination of aggreable tones.






9. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






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






11. 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.






12. B- B






13. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






14. G- G






15. 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.






16. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






17. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






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






19. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. Sounds a minor third higher.






25. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






26. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






27. Made smaller.






28. C- C






29. Pick up bar.






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. A- A






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






36. Journal of Research for Music Education






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






38. Third tone in a major or minor scale






39. D- D






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






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






42. F- F






43. Sounds minor seventh higher.






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






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






46. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






47. Chord without a third.






48. I - IV - V






49. Maelzel's Metronome






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