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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Rubato
Leading Note
Major Scale Semitones
2. Third tone in a major or minor scale
Mediant
Primary Triads
Auxiliary Notes
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
3. V - vi
C Clefs
Interrupted Cadence
Supertonic
Riff
4. Bars of music before the main tune begins.
C instruments
Introduction
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Figured Bass
5. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Rondo Form
B flat instruments
Accent
Kodaly Method
6. Occur in all parts.
Riff
Timbre
Sequence
Harmonic Sequences
7. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Pentatonic Scale
Anacrusis
Pull off
Timbre
8. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Cross Rhythm
Absolute Music
Bassoon
Whole Tone Scale
9. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Glissando
Accent
Melody
Rhythm
10. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Pulse
Harmonic Sequences
Accidentals
B flat Bass Transposition
11. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.
Ternary Form
Tenor
Accompaniment
Tonal Sequence
12. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones
Aeolian
Rondo Form
Supertonic
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
13. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
JRME
Lydian
Rhythm
45
14. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Bennet Reimer
Diminution
Development
15. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
AOSA
Kodaly
Imitation by Inversion
C Clefs
16. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Microtone
Tonal Sequence
Coda
Tonic
17. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments
JRME
C instruments
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Rhythmic Imitation
18. Scale made entirely of semitones.
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Chromatic Scale
Diminished
B flat instruments
19. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Real Sequence
Absolute Music
Texture
20. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Augmentation
Relative (Major/Minor)
Tonal Sequence
Diminution
21. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Hocket
Repetition
Augmented
Dominant
22. D- D
Pentatonic Scale
Dorian Mode
Imitation
Atonal
23. General music is required until grade...
Irregular rhythm
8
Reasons for Transposing
Kodaly Method
24. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Blues
Kodaly Method
Aeolian
Atonal
25. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Motif
Polytonality
Ionian
Tenor
26. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Chromatic
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Inversion
8
27. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
Blues
Ionian
B flat instruments
Melodic Minor Scale
28. Maelzel's Metronome
Extension
Ternary Form
Consonance
MM
29. Background support for a melody.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Melodic Sequences
Microtone
Accompaniment
30. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Blues
Accompaniment
Augmentation
Passing Notes
31. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Mixolydian
JRME
Countermelody
Harmony
32. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.
8
Atonal
Binary form
Tenor Clef
33. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.
Five finger exercise
Tenor Clef
C instruments
Bassoon
34. 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
Subdominant
Major Scale Semitones
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
35. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
French Horn Transposition
Tonic Minor
Hocket
Antiphonal
36. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.
Ostinato
8
Repetition
Microtone
37. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
B flat instruments
Unrelated Chord
Diminution
38. Alto and tenor clefs
Interrupted Cadence
C Clefs
Harmonic Sequences
Homophonic
39. 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.
Perfect Cadence
Pull off
5%
Smear
40. Where a composer imitates a passage - but the second part enters before the first part has ended.
Semitone
Stretto
Concert pitch
Atonal
41. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
Tonic
Cadence
ASCAP
Polytonality
42. Made larger.
Tonic Minor
Plagal Cadence
Glissando
Augmented
43. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.
Blues
Absolute Music
Ostinato
Cross Rhythm
44. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Monophonic
Dominant
Hocket
Passing Notes
45. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Unrelated Chord
Repetition
Supertonic
Rhythmic Imitation
46. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Rhythmic displacement
Imitation by Inversion
Microtone
Portamento
47. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.
Dalcroze
C Clefs
Rhythmic displacement
Cross Rhythm
48. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
Stretto
Antiphonal
Chromatic
Bare chord
49. E- E
Lydian
Kodaly Method
Irregular rhythm
Phrygian
50. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Phrase
Tonic Minor
Monophonic
Kodaly