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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Second tone in a major/minor scale






2. Distance between any two notes






3. American Choral Director's Association






4. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






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






6. Consists entirely of whole steps.






7. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






8. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






9. 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.






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






11. Sounds minor seventh higher.






12. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






13. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






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






15. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






16. C- C






17. 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.






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






19. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






20. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






21. B- B






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






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






24. American Bandmaster's Association






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

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






27. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






28. Interval of less than a semitone






29. Tone color or quality of sound.






30. IV - I






31. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






32. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






33. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






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






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






36. Alto and tenor clefs






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






38. 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.






39. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.






40. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






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






42. Glissando in vocal music






43. Made larger.






44. Natural Pitch






45. Middle C






46. Made smaller.






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






48. Background support for a melody.






49. An unessential note that falls on the beat






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