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. Chord without a third.






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






3. Exact transposition of each note in a sequence.






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






5. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.






6. Middle C






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






8. General music is required until grade...






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






10. F- F






11. G- G






12. V - I






13. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).






14. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.






15. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.






16. E- E






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






18. Consists entirely of whole steps.






19. Sounds a perfect fifth lower than it is written. Music is written without a key.






20. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






21. V - vi






22. Without key center






23. 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.






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






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






26. Way of playing or singing in which some of the notes are slightly hurried while others are slowed down. Free flowing expressiveness according to the performer.






27. An annual budget is provided for the replacement of school - owned instruments that is equivalent to at least ______ of the current replacement value of the total inventory.






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






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






30. Bars of music before the main tune begins.






31. 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.






32. Developing a phrase or motif by making it longer.






33. Between 3/4 and 7/8






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






35. Actual pitch at which an instrument sounds.






36. 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


37. Educator in Moravian church in 1600s. Believed music ed was instinctual for children who first learn to make sounds through vocalizations..






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






39. IV - I






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






41. Series of tones arranged in a rhythmic pattern - often built by repeating and varying a motif.






42. A long held note or series of repeated notes - usually in the bass - above which harmonies constantly change. Tonic and dominant pedals are the most common.






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






44. Between 2/3 - 5/6 - 7/8






45. I - IV - V






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






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






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






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






50. A B A C A. Usually sections B and C are in a different key.