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. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.






2. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line






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






4. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.






5. Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses similar material.






6. Unessential note that forms part of the harmony






7. I - V ii - V IV - V






8. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.






9. Highest natural adult male voice






10. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






11. Made smaller.






12. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.






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






14. Without key center






15. Combination of aggreable tones.






16. Journal of Research for Music Education






17. Short - constantly repeated motif. Usually - but not always in the bass.






18. Distance between any two notes






19. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)






20. Come between notes of the same pitch - either a note higher or note lower.






21. Sounds a minor third higher.






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






23. Scale consisting of five notes. No semitones. One major third - two minor thirds. All fifths are perfect.






24. Made larger.






25. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written with a key.






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






27. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






28. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






29. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.






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






31. Part of the total pitch range of an instrument that has a distinctive quality.






32. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.






33. An unessential note that falls on the beat






34. 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.






35. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






36. IV - I






37. Rate of speed at which a musical composition is to be played.






38. Glissando in jazz music






39. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.






40. Scale made entirely of semitones.






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






42. Articulation for guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next down and back. Similar to a slur.






43. Second tone in a major/minor scale






44. American String Teachers Assocation






45. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






46. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.






47. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.






48. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.






49. Interval of less than a semitone






50. 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.