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Praxis II Music Education Vocab

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1. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






2. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






3. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.






4. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






5. B- B






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






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






8. Background support for a melody.






9. Glissando in jazz music






10. Interval of less than a semitone






11. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.






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






13. Two conflicting rhythms used at the same time. Also known as polyrhythm.






14. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)






15. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






16. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.






17. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






18. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






19. 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.






20. Alto and tenor clefs






21. American String Teachers Assocation






22. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.






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






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






25. Made larger.






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






27. F- F






28. 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.






29. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






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






31. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






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






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






34. Between 3/4 and 7/8






35. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






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






37. A- A






38. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






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






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






41. Scale made entirely of semitones.






42. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






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. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.






45. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






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






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






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






49. General music is required until grade...






50. Glissando in vocal music