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






2. General music is required until grade...






3. American String Teachers Assocation






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






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






6. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale






7. Interval of less than a semitone






8. I - V ii - V IV - V






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






10. Background support for a melody.






11. Sharpened leading note ascending and descending






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






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






14. Highest natural adult male voice






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. Middle C






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






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






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






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






24. Journal of Research for Music Education






25. C- C






26. 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.






27. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.






28. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.






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






30. Glissando in jazz music






31. Sounds a minor third higher.






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






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






34. Tone color or quality of sound.






35. IV - I






36. Idiophones - Membranophones - Chordophones - Aerophones - Electrophones






37. Child - developmental approach. Quarter note = ta. Eight note pairs = ti ti. Half note = ta - a. Moveable do and hand signs.






38. Combination of aggreable tones.






39. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented






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






41. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale






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






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






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






45. Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of writing simple chords for the left hand - the composer arranges the same notes in a pattern of broken chords.






46. 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


47. F- F






48. Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a type of countermelody.






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






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