TExES Music Content: Competency 1
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Pass the TExES Music EC-12 3rd ed.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Melody | a succession of single pitches |
| Interval | the distance between two different pitches |
| Scales | The orderly graduated arrangement of ascending or descending pitches |
| Pitch Collections | the use of something other than complete scales from which a melody or composition is derived. |
| Rhythm | the organization of music over time using long and short note and rest values |
| meter | a systematic grouping of beats in their division and regularly reccurring patterns |
| syncopation | the disruption of the normal accent in a measure by shifting it to an unexpected beat |
| augmentation | the proportional to Marchman of rhythmic values |
| diminution | the proportional reduction of rhythmic values |
| hemiola | arrhythmic device found in all periods of Western music; alteration of triple meter at two different metrical levels, as in juxtaposition of 6/8 and 3/4 |
| texture | the horizontal and vertical relationship of musical elements |
| monophonic | music composed for a single unaccompanied voice or unison choir |
| polyphonic | music with more than one voice part |
| chord structures | combinations of concurrently sounding or arpeggiated notes, the identity of which is understood and named without accounting for any foreground elaboration (I. E., Suspensions, apology tour is, passing tones, auxiliary notes, ETC.) |
| court progressions | successions of functional chords proceeded by strong root movements which may be elaborated by intervening noncore functional courts (auxiliary court, passing court, applauded sure accord) |
| cadences | enclosing pattern or formula that terminates a phrase, section, or complete composition |
| timbre | tone color quality: vocal, instrumental, keyboard, synthesized sound |
| dynamics | varying degrees of loud and soft |
| terraced dynamics | expressive style typical of some early music, particularly Baroque, in which volume level shift abruptly from soft to loud and back without gradual crescendos and decrescendos |
| form | the organization and structure of the composition |
| binary | a two-part form |
| Ternary | a three-part form |
| 12 bar blues | a I, IV, V chord progression, often using jazz style, making use primarily of dominant seventh chords played over 12 bars or measures |
| Rondo | a repeated return of musical material in phrases and sections interspersed with phrases and sections of new musical material (ABACADA, etc.) |
| theme and variations | the style of composition that first present the basic theme and then develops and alters that seem in successive statements |
| sonata allegro | a multi-sectional form often used as a first movement form |
| fugue | a polyphonic procedure involving a specified number of voices in which a motive (subject) is exposed, in each voice, in an initial tonic/dominant relationship, then develop by contrapuntal means |
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