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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. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






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

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4. Middle C






5. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






6. Sixth tone in a major or minor scale






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






8. Highest natural adult male voice






9. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






10. 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.






11. Scale made entirely of semitones.






12. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






13. Glissando in vocal music






14. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






15. Natural Pitch






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






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






18. American String Teachers Assocation






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






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. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






22. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






23. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






24. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






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






27. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.






28. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






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






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






31. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






32. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






33. B- B






34. Third tone in a major or minor scale






35. Occur in all parts.






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






37. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






38. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






39. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.






40. Interval of less than a semitone






41. Second tone in a major/minor scale






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






43. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






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






45. F- F






46. IV - I






47. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






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






49. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.






50. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.