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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Whole Tone Scale
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Unrelated Chord
Leading Note
2. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)
Polyphonic
Enharmonic
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
ASTA
3. Journal of Research for Music Education
JRME
Rhythmic displacement
Five finger exercise
Ionian
4. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Harmony
Auxiliary Notes
Harmonic Minor Scale
Arco
5. Without key center
Atonal
MM
Kodaly
Blues
6. D- D
Unrelated Chord
Pull off
Dorian Mode
AOSA
7. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Tonic Minor
Bassoon
Major Scale Semitones
Canon
8. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Tempo
Perfect Cadence
Melody
Harmonic
9. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Auxiliary Notes
Perfect Cadence
Accented Passing Note
Hocket
10. Middle C
Canon
B flat Bass Transposition
Cross Rhythm
Note that is transposing figured around
11. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Bennet Reimer
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Concert pitch
Enharmonic
12. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
ACDA
Introduction
45
Tonal Sequence
13. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
8
Kodaly
Ostinato
Diminution
14. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Semitone
Monophonic
Kodaly Method
15. 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
45
Enharmonic
Bassoon
16. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Bye - tones
Figured Bass
Glissando
Natural Minor Scale
17. Made larger.
Tonality
Fragmentation
Primary Triads
Augmented
18. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.
Pentatonic Scale
C instruments
Augmented
Tonality
19. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Syncopation
Timbre
Inversion
20. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Kodaly
Development
Tenor Clef
Bennet Reimer
21. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Glissando
Relative (Major/Minor)
Coda
22. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Semitone
Ionian
Accent
Cor Anglais Transposition
23. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Dominant
Inverted Pedal
Tenor Clef
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
24. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Bare chord
Imitation by Inversion
Ostinato
8
25. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Appoggiaturas
Augmented
Cadence
Retrograde
26. How high or low a note is.
Countermelody
Pitch
Interrupted Cadence
Whole Tone Scale
27. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Fragmentation
Harmonic Minor Scale
Irregular rhythm
ACDA
28. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Register
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Retrograde
Tonal Sequence
29. Chord without a third.
Bare chord
Stretto
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Consonance
30. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Fragmentation
Rubato
Auxiliary Notes
Aeolian
31. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pulse
Polyphonic
Binary form
Harmonic Sequences
32. Combination of aggreable tones.
Comenius
Plagal Cadence
Consonance
Bennet Reimer
33. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Submediant
Lydian
Mediant
Countermelody
34. Sounds a minor third higher.
ASCAP
Mediant
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Arpeggio
35. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.
B flat instruments
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Five finger exercise
Dissonance
36. Background support for a melody.
Mediant
Ionian
Accompaniment
Comenius
37. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Countermelody
Homophonic
Enharmonic
Semitone
38. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
B flat instruments
Inversion
Rondo Form
Note that is transposing figured around
39. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Articulation
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Dominant
Semitone
40. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Ternary Form
Notes of Anticipation
Hocket
Extension
41. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave
Dominant
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Diminution
42. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
Perfect Cadence
Tempo
Sequence
Rhythm
43. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
Absolute Music
Accent
Instruments that transpose at the octave
44. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Tenor
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Melodic Minor Scale
Accented Passing Note
45. Between 3/4 and 7/8
Lydian
Cross Rhythm
Major Scale Semitones
Leading Note
46. 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.
Motif
Alberti Bass
JRME
Inversion
47. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Subdominant
Melodic Sequences
Harmony
Cadence
48. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
C instruments
Contrary motion
Retrograde
Interval
49. Alto and tenor clefs
Fanfare
C Clefs
Reasons for Transposing
Locrian
50. Made smaller.
Mediant
Diminished
Ionian
Diminution