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Praxis II Music Education Vocab
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1. Made larger.
ABA
Augmented
Reasons for Transposing
MM
2. Natural Pitch
Natural Minor Scale
Fanfare
Submediant
Pentatonic Scale
3. V - I
Perfect Cadence
Comenius
Interrupted Cadence
Irregular rhythm
4. Highest natural adult male voice
Glissando
Mixolydian
Phrase
Tenor
5. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Augmentation
Consonance
Melodic Minor Scale
Bennet Reimer
6. How high or low a note is.
Pitch
Locrian
B flat instruments
Homophonic
7. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.
Retrograde
Imitation
Leading Note
Cor Anglais Transposition
8. F- F
Motif
Absolute Music
Glissando
Lydian
9. Without key center
Development
5%
Atonal
Antiphonal
10. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.
Harmony
Semitone
Augmented
Submediant
11. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Mixolydian
Pentatonic Scale
Microtone
12. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Ostinato
Accidentals
Relative (Major/Minor)
13. Repetition of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch.
Alto Clef
Rubato
Sequence
Five finger exercise
14. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Syncopation
MM
Phrase
Motif
15. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Inversion
Articulation
Five finger exercise
Reasons for Transposing
16. Simultaneous use of two or more keys.
Locrian
Diminished
Polytonality
AOSA
17. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.
Concert pitch
8
Pedal Point
Texture
18. V - vi
Interrupted Cadence
Monophonic
Supertonic
Retrograde
19. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.
Imitation by Inversion
Accidentals
Tempo
Melody
20. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Absolute Music
Kodaly Method
Harmonic Minor Scale
21. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Arpeggio
Pull off
Monophonic
Alto Clef
22. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
Auxiliary Notes
Development
Riff
Rhythm
23. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.
45
Tenor
Melody
Irregular rhythm
24. B- B
Aeolian
Sequence
Pitch
Locrian
25. Scale made entirely of semitones.
Dissonance
Retrograde
Inversion
Chromatic Scale
26. 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.
5
Rubato
Aeolian
Fanfare
27. Journal of Research for Music Education
Antiphonal
Chromatic
JRME
Harmonic Minor Scale
28. Distance between any two notes
Interval
Texture
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Harmonic Sequences
29. General music is required until grade...
8
B flat instruments
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Relative (Major/Minor)
30. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Tonality
Stretto
Arco
Fanfare
31. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Timbre
Relative (Major/Minor)
45
Tempo
32. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers
Chromatic Scale
Dominant
ASCAP
Rhythmic Imitation
33. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Unrelated Chord
Contrary motion
Articulation
Ostinato
34. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Countermelody
Primary Triads
Auxiliary Notes
Tonal Sequence
35. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Glissando
Whole Tone Scale
Programme Music
Melodic Sequences
36. Tone color or quality of sound.
Alto Clef
Timbre
Cor Anglais Transposition
Ionian
37. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization
Microtone
Bare chord
Kodaly
Coda
38. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..
Reasons for Transposing
Comenius
5%
Timbre
39. IV - I
Plagal Cadence
Imitation
Pedal Point
Comenius
40. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.
B flat instruments
Augmentation
AOSA
Tempo
41. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Polyphonic
Friedrich Froebel
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
42. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending
Blues
Harmonic Minor Scale
Repetition
Homophonic
43. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.
Whole Tone Scale
Bare chord
Pull off
Imperfect Cadence
44. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Aeolian
Monophonic
Friedrich Froebel
Antiphonal
45. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
8
Tenor Clef
Anacrusis
Chromatic Scale
46. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Imitation by Inversion
5
Retrograde
Antiphonal
47. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Harmonic Minor Scale
Subdominant
Whole Tone Scale
Augmented
48. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Harmony
Dominant
Dorian Mode
Major Scale Semitones
49. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.
Leading Note
Appoggiaturas
Harmonic Sequences
Harmony
50. 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.
Glissando
Phrase
Timbre
Melody