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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. G- G
Mixolydian
Locrian
5%
MM
2. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Cor Anglais Transposition
Inversion
B flat Bass Transposition
Interval
3. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Lydian
AOSA
Imitation by Inversion
Augmentation
4. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Alto Clef
Blues
Coda
Antiphonal
5. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
ASCAP
Arco
Harmonic
Smear
6. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
Aeolian
Comenius
Harmonic
Introduction
7. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Unrelated Chord
French Horn Transposition
Bare chord
Inversions of chords
8. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Arco
Leading Note
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Dissonance
9. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Leading Note
A instruments
C Clefs
Irregular rhythm
10. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.
Polytonality
Register
Phrase
ASTA
11. 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.
Phrase
Timbre
Phrygian
Alberti Bass
12. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
5%
Articulation
Ostinato
Passing Notes
13. Glissando in vocal music
Hammer on
Tempo
Portamento
Inversion
14. Distance between any two notes
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Five finger exercise
Interval
Anacrusis
15. 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.
Enharmonic
Figured Bass
45
Consonance
16. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Rondo Form
Mediant
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Primary Triads
17. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
Pulse
B flat instruments
Unrelated Chord
18. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Real Sequence
Diminution
Concert pitch
Subdominant
19. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Motif
Kodaly Method
Harmonic Minor Scale
Supertonic
20. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Aeolian
Phrygian
Stretto
Dorian Mode
21. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Antiphonal
Appoggiaturas
Accidentals
Dissonance
22. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Glissando
Imitation
Alto Clef
23. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.
Tonic Minor
Rubato
Cross Rhythm
Aeolian
24. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Blues
Antiphonal
Friedrich Froebel
25. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Alberti Bass
Motif
Subdominant
26. 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.
5%
Motif
Auxiliary Notes
Bye - tones
27. Natural Pitch
Melodic Minor Scale
Natural Minor Scale
Kodaly
Alberti Bass
28. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave
Imitation
Tonic Minor
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Imitation by Inversion
29. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.
Monophonic
Concert pitch
Relative (Major/Minor)
Blues
30. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Inversions of chords
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Arco
Irregular rhythm
31. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Real Sequence
Antiphonal
Cross Rhythm
Tempo
32. D- D
Polytonality
Dorian Mode
Reasons for Transposing
Diminution
33. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Interrupted Cadence
Submediant
45
Polyphonic
34. 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.
Plagal Cadence
Real Sequence
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Pedal Point
35. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Bye - tones
Imitation
Whole Tone Scale
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
36. American Bandmaster's Association
Cor Anglais Transposition
Kodaly
Fanfare
ABA
37. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
MM
8
Ostinato
Rondo Form
38. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Natural Minor Scale
Five finger exercise
Plagal Cadence
Leading Note
39. Another word for key.
Tenor Clef
Tonality
Hammer on
Cor Anglais Transposition
40. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Syncopation
Arco
Bennet Reimer
Consonance
41. Pick up bar.
Locrian
Anacrusis
Cross Rhythm
Five finger exercise
42. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
C Clefs
Melody
Accompaniment
Rubato
43. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.
Interval
Repetition
Supertonic
Bennet Reimer
44. Sounds a minor third higher.
ASTA
A instruments
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Semitone
45. C- C
Ionian
Microtone
Accompaniment
Leading Note
46. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Aeolian
Blues
Semitone
Bye - tones
47. Alto and tenor clefs
C Clefs
Stretto
Ionian
Unrelated Chord
48. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Accompaniment
Arpeggio
Portamento
JRME
49. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Development
Primary Triads
Consonance
Rhythmic Imitation
50. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Comenius
Articulation
A instruments
Stretto