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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Pick up bar.






2. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






3. 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.






4. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






5. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






7. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






8. Third tone in a major or minor scale






9. Between 3/4 and 7/8






10. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






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






12. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.






13. American Orff - Schulwerk Association






14. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






15. E- E






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






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






18. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






19. Interval of less than a semitone






20. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






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






22. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






23. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






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






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






26. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






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






28. 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.






29. Scale made entirely of semitones.






30. Consists entirely of whole steps.






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






32. 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.






33. Made smaller.






34. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






35. Combination of aggreable tones.






36. Made larger.






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






38. Glissando in vocal music






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






40. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.






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






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






43. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






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






45. 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.






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






47. Without key center






48. Distance between any two notes






49. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line






50. A- A