Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis II Music Education Vocab

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






2. Journal of Research for Music Education






3. Used to give a more melodic bass part and to give variety to the music.






4. Occurs when a phrase is repeated immediately at exactly the same pitch.






5. Sounds Major 9th lower. i.e. major second + octave






6. An unessential note that falls on the beat






7. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.






8. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






9. Sound that results when two or more notes are played at the same time.






10. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.






11. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.






12. Made larger.






13. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






14. Breaking of a theme into segments in order to develop it






15. 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.






16. Organization of musical notes in time.






17. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.






18. How high or low a note is.






19. American String Teachers Assocation






20. Trademark teaching methods using solfege hand signs - musical shorthand - rhythm solmization






21. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.






22. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.






23. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






24. Bed post - double reed - connected with a bocal






25. Gliding or sliding from one note to another. Can be shown by a line between notes or by writing the actual notes to be played.






26. Sounds major 13th lower. i.e. major sixth + octave






27. Instruction on string instruments begins no later than grade...






28. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






29. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending






30. Key note. Tonic of C major is C. The tonic triad is C E G.






31. F- F






32. Background support for a melody.






33. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.






34. Flutes - oboes - bassoons - trombones - tubas - string instruments






35. E- E






36. V - I






37. Teaching methods help teachers establish ewquential curricular objectives in accord with their own teaching styles and beliefs.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


38. Rhythmic Gymnastics - teaches concept of rhythm - structure - and expression through movement.






39. Effect of tension or disturbance made by using discords in music. Jazz uses many colorful dissonant chords.






40. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.






41. American Bandmaster's Association






42. IV - I






43. Highest natural adult male voice






44. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.






45. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.






46. Third tone in a major or minor scale






47. Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small and large musical sections.






48. I - V ii - V IV - V






49. Continuously repeated musical phrase in jazz music - played over changing harmonies.






50. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.