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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Arpeggio
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Accent
Coda
2. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Diminished
Tenor Clef
Harmony
Reasons for Transposing
3. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.
Auxiliary Notes
Pentatonic Scale
Diminished
French Horn Transposition
4. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step
Kodaly
Diminution
Interval
Appoggiaturas
5. Tone color or quality of sound.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Accompaniment
Timbre
Pentatonic Scale
6. (Elementary/Middle School) Every music course meets at least every other day in periods of at least ____ minutes.
Binary form
Locrian
45
Consonance
7. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Appoggiaturas
Inverted Pedal
Tempo
Pedal Point
8. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Dominant
Passing Notes
Retrograde
Real Sequence
9. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Countermelody
Atonal
Five finger exercise
Development
10. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Kodaly
Harmonic Sequences
Canon
Passing Notes
11. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Alto Clef
Irregular rhythm
Note that is transposing figured around
Homophonic
12. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.
Riff
Homophonic
Notes of Anticipation
Diminution
13. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Pull off
Diminution
Appoggiaturas
ASTA
14. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it
Microtone
Reasons for Transposing
Fragmentation
Contrary motion
15. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.
Melody
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Sequence
Kodaly Method
16. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Alto Clef
Polyphonic
Phrygian
Accompaniment
17. 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.
Concert pitch
Major Scale Semitones
Whole Tone Scale
Motif
18. 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.
Tenor Clef
Development
Hocket
Phrase
19. IV - I
Cor Anglais Transposition
Monophonic
Relative (Major/Minor)
Plagal Cadence
20. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.
B flat instruments
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Cadence
5%
21. American String Teachers Assocation
Absolute Music
Anacrusis
ASTA
5
22. V - vi
Leading Note
MM
Rondo Form
Interrupted Cadence
23. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.
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24. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Pull off
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Sequence
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
25. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Retrograde
B flat instruments
Harmony
Alto Clef
26. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.
5
Dorian Mode
Tonality
Tonic
27. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.
Lydian
Consonance
Real Sequence
Supertonic
28. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Anacrusis
Relative (Major/Minor)
ASTA
Atonal
29. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
Appoggiaturas
Note that is transposing figured around
Rhythmic displacement
Bennet Reimer
30. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8
Rhythmic Imitation
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Blues
Tenor Clef
31. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
5
Hocket
Accidentals
Semitone
32. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Relative (Major/Minor)
Repetition
Absolute Music
Perfect Cadence
33. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Imitation
Subdominant
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Binary form
34. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Friedrich Froebel
Ternary Form
Subdominant
Harmonic Minor Scale
35. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.
Harmonic
A instruments
Harmonic Sequences
Hammer on
36. An unessential note that falls on the beat
Diminution
Accented Passing Note
Rondo Form
Leading Note
37. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
Real Sequence
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Tonic Minor
Tenor
38. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
French Horn Transposition
Rhythmic Imitation
Accidentals
Antiphonal
39. Another word for key.
Melody
Inverted Pedal
Supertonic
Tonality
40. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.
Semitone
Bare chord
Countermelody
Subdominant
41. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Syncopation
Harmony
Augmentation
A instruments
42. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Rhythmic displacement
Notes of Anticipation
Note that is transposing figured around
Lydian
43. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
Figured Bass
Pedal Point
B flat instruments
Melody
44. How high or low a note is.
Augmented
Contrary motion
Pitch
B flat Bass Transposition
45. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Five finger exercise
Melodic Sequences
Antiphonal
Texture
46. Background support for a melody.
Syncopation
French Horn Transposition
Accompaniment
Note that is transposing figured around
47. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Submediant
Programme Music
Supertonic
Articulation
48. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
Reasons for Transposing
Phrygian
Harmonic Sequences
Retrograde
49. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony
Bye - tones
Phrygian
Anacrusis
Kodaly
50. Third tone in a major or minor scale
8
Mediant
Dalcroze
Bare chord