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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Cross Rhythm
Tenor
Cor Anglais Transposition
Unrelated Chord
2. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Diminished
Appoggiaturas
Friedrich Froebel
Bye - tones
3. Natural Pitch
Antiphonal
AOSA
Natural Minor Scale
Chromatic Scale
4. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Glissando
Cadence
Portamento
Chromatic Scale
5. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Blues
Development
ASTA
Mediant
6. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Sequence
Dorian Mode
Chromatic Scale
Motif
7. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Bare chord
Ostinato
Harmonic
Tonal Sequence
8. Glissando in vocal music
Enharmonic
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Portamento
Accidentals
9. F- F
Arco
Glissando
Lydian
JRME
10. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Harmonic Sequences
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Monophonic
Passing Notes
11. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Articulation
JRME
Bye - tones
Supertonic
12. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Tempo
Subdominant
Dalcroze
Accented Passing Note
13. General music is required until grade...
C instruments
Natural Minor Scale
8
Dorian Mode
14. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Figured Bass
Appoggiaturas
Microtone
Rubato
15. Pick up bar.
Chromatic Scale
Anacrusis
Tempo
Articulation
16. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.
Pull off
Rubato
Extension
Mixolydian
17. B- B
Locrian
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Plagal Cadence
Glissando
18. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Stretto
Tenor
Aeolian
Pulse
19. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Timbre
Natural Minor Scale
Melody
Atonal
20. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Plagal Cadence
Dalcroze
ASTA
Diminution
21. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Repetition
Auxiliary Notes
Canon
Polyphonic
22. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal
Subdominant
ASCAP
C instruments
Bassoon
23. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Sequence
Aeolian
Interval
Texture
24. Sounds a minor third higher.
Chromatic
Accent
Augmentation
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
25. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
B flat instruments
Timbre
Dalcroze
Whole Tone Scale
26. 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.
Timbre
Ostinato
Figured Bass
Arpeggio
27. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Binary form
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Plagal Cadence
Bennet Reimer
28. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Rhythm
Introduction
Canon
29. Consists entirely of whole steps.
ACDA
Whole Tone Scale
B flat instruments
Bare chord
30. Distance between any two notes
Interval
Tenor
Cor Anglais Transposition
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
31. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Interrupted Cadence
Pitch
Register
A instruments
32. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Sequence
AOSA
Tenor Clef
Reasons for Transposing
33. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Harmony
Rhythmic displacement
Appoggiaturas
Augmentation
34. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Rhythmic displacement
Primary Triads
Subdominant
Dissonance
35. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Accidentals
Motif
B flat Bass Transposition
Coda
36. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Aeolian
Semitone
Harmonic
5%
37. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Harmonic
ASTA
Augmentation
38. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
ASTA
Contrary motion
Plagal Cadence
Accent
39. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Imperfect Cadence
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Bye - tones
Ionian
40. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Arpeggio
Rhythmic Imitation
Tonic Minor
Extension
41. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Articulation
Smear
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Hammer on
42. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Imperfect Cadence
ASCAP
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Passing Notes
43. 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.
Bassoon
ASCAP
Bennet Reimer
Glissando
44. V - vi
Diminished
Interrupted Cadence
AOSA
Leading Note
45. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
MM
Portamento
Inverted Pedal
AOSA
46. How high or low a note is.
ABA
Pitch
Arco
Instruments that transpose at the octave
47. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Tenor Clef
C Clefs
Auxiliary Notes
Bennet Reimer
48. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Rhythmic displacement
Hocket
B flat Bass Transposition
Coda
49. 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.
Rhythmic Imitation
Fanfare
Contrary motion
Friedrich Froebel
50. Sounds minor seventh higher.
45
Fragmentation
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Inversion
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