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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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






2. Tone color or quality of sound.






3. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.






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






5. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






6. Chord without a third.






7. 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.






8. D- D






9. 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.






10. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






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






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






13. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






14. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






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






16. I - IV - V






17. 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.






18. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






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






20. 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.






21. Organization of musical notes in time.






22. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






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






24. Without key center






25. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






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






27. Sounds minor seventh higher.






28. Pick up bar.






29. 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.






30. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






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






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






33. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






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






35. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






36. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






37. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






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






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






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






41. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






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






43. American Choral Director's Association






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






45. American String Teachers Assocation






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






47. How high or low a note is.






48. Interval of less than a semitone






49. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






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