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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






2. 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.






3. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.






4. E- E






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






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






7. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






8. Between 3/4 and 7/8






9. Organization of musical notes in time.






10. American String Teachers Assocation






11. Highest natural adult male voice






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






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






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






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






16. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






17. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






18. Another word for key.






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






20. 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.






21. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






22. Journal of Research for Music Education






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






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






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






26. A- A






27. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






28. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






29. 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.






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






31. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






32. Second tone in a major/minor scale






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






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






35. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






36. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






37. Occur in all parts.






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






39. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






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






41. Background support for a melody.






42. Maelzel's Metronome






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






44. Distance between any two notes






45. D- D






46. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






47. I - V ii - V IV - V






48. 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.






49. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.






50. Middle C