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Kodály method - CORRECT ANSWER The Kodaly Method is a way of developing musical
skills and teaching musical concepts beginning in very young children. This method uses folk
songs, Curwen hand signs, pictures, movable-do, rhythm symbols and syllables. SAYS ALL
STUDENTS SHOULD START MUSICAL INSTRUCTION THROUGH SINGING.
Steady Beat - CORRECT ANSWER the pulse of the music - HEART beat
Rhythm - CORRECT ANSWER Think Cardiac Arrhythmia - A strong, regular, repeated pattern
of movement or sound.
Ragtime - CORRECT ANSWER A type of music featuring melodies with shifting accents over
a steady, marching-band beat; originated among black musicians in the south and midwest in the
1880s. Typically performed on piano characterized by duple meter, syncopation, four-bar phrase
lengths, and a regular alternation of low bass notes on the beat with mid-range chords between
beats.
Homophony - CORRECT ANSWER 1 Melody line (originated in classical era)
Sonata Form - CORRECT ANSWER exposition, development, recapitulation, coda (originated
in classical era)
Rubato - CORRECT ANSWER Flexible tempo (romantic era)
etude - CORRECT ANSWER a piece of music designed to give a player practice in technical
skills
Tone Row - CORRECT ANSWER An arrangement of the twelve chromatic tones that serves as
the basis of a twelve-tone composition. A series of tones in which no tone is duplicated, and in
which the tones generally recur in fixed sequence, with variations in rhythm and pitch,
throughout a composition.
Perfect Authentic Cadence (PAC) - CORRECT ANSWER V - I. Both Chords in root position.
Soprano on root of chord I. JAWS theme
Stretto - CORRECT ANSWER Faster Tempo
Dixeland(Jazz) - CORRECT ANSWER (1917-1920) An early style of jazz originating in the
early 20th century in New Orleans with a simple, cheerful character.
Binary Form - CORRECT ANSWER AB
,Natural Minor Scale - CORRECT ANSWER A minor scale formation, similar to a major scale
with lowered 3, 6 and 7. (3 lowered notes)
Harmonic Minor Scale - CORRECT ANSWER Sharpened leading note ascending and
descending (2 notes are lowered)
Melodic Minor Scale - CORRECT ANSWER Sharpened 6 and 7, but reverted to naturals when
descending (1 lowered note)
Joplin - CORRECT ANSWER King of Ragtime
Strophic Form - CORRECT ANSWER Lots of verses with added CHS (think Hymns)
Rondo Form - CORRECT ANSWER ABACDA - classical form with at least three statements
of the refrain (A) and at least two contrasting sections (at least B and C); placement of the refrain
creates symmetrical patterns such as ABACA, ABACABA, or even ABACADA
Bebop Jazz - CORRECT ANSWER a style that was developed out of musicians wanting to play
more challenging music. more complicated harmonically and played faster - Improve, irregular
melodic phrasing, complex harmonies (1940's-50's)
Impressionism in music - CORRECT ANSWER A musical movement which reflected the
French artistic movement of the same name. It employed expanded harmonic vocabulary (whole
tone, modal, pentatonic scales and parallel chords) which were used to subtly suggest images
rather than directly depicting them. It featured innovative orchestral colors, including individual
treatment of instruments and use of muted instruments, as well as an obscuring of the metric
pulse. They wanted to invoke a feeling. Instruments were played in new ways. Chords got
wonky. A lack of tonal center, or steady rhythm. (Debussy, Maurice, Ravel
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Atonality - CORRECT ANSWER Absence of tonality or key
Modernism in Music - CORRECT ANSWER 1900- 1930 (not to be confused with
impressionism) - Very abstract style. Once we hit the 1900's western music began to split into
multiple genre's - Modern, impressionism, modernism, jazz, futurism, theater, etc. The modern
era is full of sub genres. It ran parells, to impression. It completely rejects tonality, rhythms. It
considers the boarders of key's and rythems to restriciting. It's an obvious point of historical
discontinuity. The dissolution of the traditonal tonality and transformation of the very foundation
of tonal language. Music that deny's tonality - lack of a tonal center atonality. This came for
Shoenenburg. Ballet's came into view. Picasso was alive during this time. Symphony's evolved,
Choir's, children's choirs, soloists, etc.
Twelve-tone technique - CORRECT ANSWER Twelve-tone technique was developed by
Arnold Schoenberg in the early 1920s, and is one method of writing atonal music—music that
has no key or tonic pitch. Twelve-tone works are based on a tone row constructed from each of
,the twelve pitches of the chromatic scale, each used only once. This row may be inverted and/or
presented in retrograde (backwards), a combination of possibilities often represented in a twelve-
tone matrix (for an example, see here; curious readers may experiment with creating their own
row/matrix here). Twelve-tone technique is one form of serialism, the rigid structuring of various
musical elements within a work. A work of total serialism applies the same process to dynamics,
articulations, and other basic elements of music as well as pitch. It gives all notes the same
weight you hit the notes and equal number of times to make sure you don't ever think that you
hear a key signiturew because of hearing one note more than another.
Polymeter - CORRECT ANSWER simultaneous presence of two different metrical systems. 2
instruments 2 different times 4/4 & 5/4 at once
Neo-Classicism - CORRECT ANSWER A style of art and architecture that emerged in the later
18th century. Part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures, Neoclassicism was
characterized by the utilization of themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome. (Stravinsky,
Povlenc, hindemith, satie,) They eanted to get music back to what classical music was. Flash
back to what was old. Ie. Harpsichords
Fugue - CORRECT ANSWER a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a
fourth below its first statement. Started in Borouqe Era. Bach was the master of them he could
make them up on the spot. IT uses counterpoint (multiple melodic lines that form harmonies) 1
main melody is used over in over instead of being called a theme it's instead called a subject so it
could be passed between melodic lines. When the subject is entered in a different key it's called
the Answer.
7 elements of music - CORRECT ANSWER rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, dynamics,
form, texture
What is spiral curriculum? - CORRECT ANSWER This theory of learning, created by Jerome
Bruner, introduced basic information in the early grades, building on that foundation in later
grades
What are singing schools? - CORRECT ANSWER Singing masters used tune books and
traveled from community to community, establishing these for weeks or months at a time.
Who was Carl Orff? - CORRECT ANSWER This German composer's methodology
encompasses four stages: imitation, exploration, improvisation, and composition.
Who was Emile Jaques-Dalcroze? - CORRECT ANSWER Confounded by some of his student's
lack of rhythm, his observations led him to pursue a new method of teaching, often referred to as
Eurhythmics, which took a kinesthetic awareness of music into account.
Who was Carl E. Seashore? - CORRECT ANSWER His tests published in 1919 entitled
"Measures of Musical Talents" evaluated responses to identify musical talent. He believed nature
determined musical competency
, What is the Kodály method? - CORRECT ANSWER This pedagogical system was established
to help the schools in Hungary reawaken its culture's musicality and educating all to be musically
literate.
Who was Sinichi Suzuki? - CORRECT ANSWER He coined the phrase "mother-tongue
method" and introduced observation-imitation-repetition so that children might perform difficult
pieces at a young age.
What is comprehensive musicianship? - CORRECT ANSWER This teaching method focuses on
integrating theory, history, performance, and all aspects of music.
Polyphony - CORRECT ANSWER 2 Melodies at the same time (could be in a round)
Monophony - CORRECT ANSWER One Voice or Instrument
Modes - CORRECT ANSWER 8 Different modes- Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian,
Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian
Tonality - CORRECT ANSWER Organized system of tones in which one tone becomes central
to all the remaining tones. It serves as the target tone where all other tones lead to.
Parallel Keys - CORRECT ANSWER major and minor keys with same tonic (ex. C major and c
minor)
Simple Intervals - CORRECT ANSWER intervals smaller than an octave
Compound intervals - CORRECT ANSWER Intervals larger than an octave.
Plagal Cadence (PC) - CORRECT ANSWER IV - I (amen cadence)
Phrygian Cadence (PHC) - CORRECT ANSWER Ends on a V
Deceptive Cadence (DC) - CORRECT ANSWER A cadence that creates the expectation of
going to I, but substitutes another chord instead. It goes to ANYTHING, but the I
Adagio - CORRECT ANSWER Slow bro
Andante - CORRECT ANSWER Walking Pace or Moderately slow
Allegro - CORRECT ANSWER Brisk or lively
Presto - CORRECT ANSWER Very Fast
Allegro con spirito - CORRECT ANSWER fast tempo with spirit
allegro moderato - CORRECT ANSWER slightly slower than allegro but quicker than moderato
