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100

Name four U.S. nationalistic composers.

Who are Ives, Harris, Gershwin, and Copland?

100

I-tonic, II-supertonic, III-mediant, IV-subdominant, V-dominant, VI-submediant, VII-leading tone or subtonic

What are all of the scale degrees?

100

Productive collaboration is hindered and inaccurate intonation may occur. Adjusting to surrounding musicians becomes minimal.

What are the results of a singer who cannot hear themselves in a choral setting?

100

When students are _______ ______, there will be satisfaction in the activity or task at hand.

What is intrinsically motivated?

100

This method what developed in the 1920s by a German composer, musician, and educator who believed that music should be actively experienced and is best learners through a child's natural tendency to play.

What is the Orff-Schulwerk method?

200

This movement (1800-1920) in music was influenced by the synonymous movement in visual arts by painters such as Monet, Cezanne, Degas, and Renoir in which subtle brushstrokes obscured any sharp lines to give a general "impression" of a scene without precise details.

What is the Impressionist Movement?

200

The subdominant sounding harmony resolving to the tonic harmony, notated as IV-I or iv-i in Western tonal theory.

What is the Plagal Cadence?

200

Feet shoulder width apart with one foot slightly more forward. Knees should not bend, equal weight should be placed on each foot.

What is the optimal stance a conductor should have?

200

When students are ______ _______, satisfaction lies in an external reward, pressure, or prompt.

What is extrinsically motivated?

200

This method was introduced in the 1950s by a Hungarian composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator who believed that music is an innate part of every human's experience.

What is the Kodaly method?
300

This term refers to a texture of music in which all voices or parts hold similar musical prominence or interest.

What is polyphony?

300

A dominant sounding harmony resolving to the tonic harmony, notated as V-I or V-i in Western tonal theory.

What is the authentic cadence?

300

Must be directly on the ictus. Give a preparatory beat (which should be at the same tempo as the ensemble will be playing). Give. direct eye contact and a head nod.

How would a conductor give a preparatory beat?

300

Principles of _____ a music curriculum can be based on three different techniques: content ____, task _____, or ______ of elaboration.

What is sequencing?

300

This method was developed in the mid-20th century by a Japanese violinist, composer, and educator who believed that musical development is best structured through a mother tongue approach.

What is the Suzuki Method?

400

This has several voices or parts, but but melodic interest is reduced to a single voice or part.

What is Homophony?

400
The dominant-sounding harmony progressing to a harmony that defies the expected tonic harmony, most commonly in the submediant harmony.

What is the Deceptive Cadence?

400

When indicating this, the conductor should use a preparatory beat.

What is the cutoff?

400

____ learners learn best by hearing educational content.

What is aural?

400

This theory was developed by a Hungarian dancer and theorist whose foundational theories for once have been adopted by music educators for movement-based education.

What is the Laban theory?

500

This centers on a single melodic line; however, unlike homophony, it does not have supplemental accompaniment parts.

What is Monophony?

500

Any harmony progressing to a dominant harmony.

What is the Half Cadence?

500

Conductor should gesture in a circular motion downward as long as the _____ is to be held.

What is a fermata?

500

_______ learners learn best by doing, and need to integrate movement with the introduction of new concepts and ideas.

What is kinesthetic?

500

This man's music philosophy whose book presents the praxial philosophy of music education.

Who is David Elliot?