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. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.






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






3. Tones that sound alike but have different names (C sharp and D flat)






4. American Choral Director's Association






5. Three part musical form created by repeating the first section without changing. A B A.






6. Occur in all parts.






7. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.






8. Music with a single melody line and no harmony.






9. Consists entirely of whole steps.






10. Note that does not form part of the harmony and is approached by a leap and quitted by a step






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






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






13. Combination of aggreable tones.






14. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.






15. G- G






16. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.






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






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






19. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.






20. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






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






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






23. Needs to be written a minor third higher.






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






25. 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


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






27. Without key center






28. Sharps - flats - and naturals placed in front of notes that alter their pitch.






29. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.






30. 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.






31. Smallest interval in common use in western music. The interval between one note on the piano and the next.






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






33. Exercises played by beginning pianists using only five consecutive notes of the scale.






34. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.






35. Journal of Research for Music Education






36. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers






37. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones






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






39. Second tone in a major/minor scale






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






41. Articulation on guitar produced by sliding the finger from one fret to the next up and back.






42. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves






43. Sounds a minor third higher.






44. 1. Avoiding ledger lines 2. Provide a better key signature 3. Avoid changing the pattern of fingering for different pitches






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






46. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






47. F- F






48. Made smaller.






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






50. Made larger.