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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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praxis
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teaching
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performing-arts
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1. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Polytonality
Cor Anglais Transposition
Tempo
Cross Rhythm
2. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Melody
Countermelody
Melodic Minor Scale
Mixolydian
3. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
Articulation
Inversions of chords
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Dissonance
4. Highest natural adult male voice
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
ASTA
Tenor
Kodaly Method
5. American Bandmaster's Association
Locrian
Bennet Reimer
ABA
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
6. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Irregular rhythm
Motif
Pedal Point
Dorian Mode
7. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Accompaniment
Imitation
Ternary Form
Passing Notes
8. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Melodic Sequences
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Locrian
Reasons for Transposing
9. Interval of less than a semitone
Microtone
Canon
Riff
Polyphonic
10. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Countermelody
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
11. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Rhythmic displacement
Consonance
French Horn Transposition
12. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Introduction
Hammer on
Extension
Fragmentation
13. 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.
Alberti Bass
Phrase
Diminution
Portamento
14. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Fanfare
Notes of Anticipation
Pull off
Ostinato
15. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Bye - tones
Real Sequence
Tonic Minor
Blues
16. Glissando in jazz music
Programme Music
Coda
Diminished
Smear
17. Tone color or quality of sound.
Portamento
Timbre
B flat instruments
Dissonance
18. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Canon
Friedrich Froebel
Whole Tone Scale
Hammer on
19. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Ionian
Appoggiaturas
Whole Tone Scale
Accidentals
20. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Kodaly
Pedal Point
Inversions of chords
Accent
21. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Bare chord
Relative (Major/Minor)
Tonic Minor
AOSA
22. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Motif
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Antiphonal
Contrary motion
23. Another word for key.
Natural Minor Scale
Tonality
Pentatonic Scale
Syncopation
24. American Choral Director's Association
Rondo Form
ACDA
Coda
Extension
25. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Programme Music
Rondo Form
Contrary motion
Augmentation
26. F- F
Bennet Reimer
8
Lydian
Rubato
27. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
ABA
Imitation by Inversion
Glissando
Plagal Cadence
28. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale
Binary form
Submediant
Harmony
Tenor Clef
29. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.
Alto Clef
Real Sequence
Bennet Reimer
Rondo Form
30. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Polytonality
Tonic Minor
Irregular rhythm
Articulation
31. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
Diminished
Locrian
Texture
Cadence
32. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Note that is transposing figured around
Imperfect Cadence
Real Sequence
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
33. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Notes of Anticipation
Microtone
Register
Harmony
34. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Stretto
Kodaly
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
8
35. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Programme Music
Five finger exercise
Melodic Minor Scale
Rhythmic Imitation
36. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Plagal Cadence
Cross Rhythm
Ternary Form
Figured Bass
37. Organization of musical notes in time.
Sequence
Aeolian
Real Sequence
Rhythm
38. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
B flat instruments
Polyphonic
French Horn Transposition
Hammer on
39. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Natural Minor Scale
Ternary Form
40. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Canon
Rondo Form
Melodic Sequences
Note that is transposing figured around
41. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Development
Register
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Lydian
42. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Mixolydian
Primary Triads
Cadence
Bye - tones
43. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Contrary motion
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Pedal Point
Hocket
44. Occur in all parts.
Auxiliary Notes
Sequence
Harmonic Sequences
Rhythmic Imitation
45. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Passing Notes
Antiphonal
Inverted Pedal
Stretto
46. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Ionian
Interrupted Cadence
Stretto
Harmonic
47. 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.
Concert pitch
Motif
Bassoon
B flat instruments
48. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Extension
Cadence
Interval
AOSA
49. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Friedrich Froebel
MM
Appoggiaturas
45
50. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
Ternary Form
Whole Tone Scale
Pulse