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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Sounds a minor third higher.






2. 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.






3. Made larger.






4. American Choral Director's Association






5. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.






6. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






7. Smallest unit of musical form. Can be as short as two notes or as long as six. A motif has Clear rhythmic patterns as well as a clear melodic outline.






8. 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.






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






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






11. Made smaller.






12. Natural Pitch






13. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






14. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






15. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






17. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






18. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar






19. I - V ii - V IV - V






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. Background support for a melody.






25. Third tone in a major or minor scale






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






27. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






28. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






29. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






30. Highest natural adult male voice






31. General music is required until grade...






32. Glissando in jazz music






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






34. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






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






36. A- A






37. Journal of Research for Music Education






38. Middle C






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






40. How high or low a note is.






41. Pick up bar.






42. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






43. 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.






44. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






45. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






46. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






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






48. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






49. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






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