SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Praxis II Music Education Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
praxis
,
teaching
,
performing-arts
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. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Melodic Sequences
Accent
Diminution
Irregular rhythm
2. Musical announcement played on brass instruments before the arrival of an important person. Usually played on trumpets and built from the notes of one major triad.
Inversions of chords
Fanfare
Texture
Diminution
3. A- A
Submediant
Interrupted Cadence
Aeolian
Timbre
4. Pick up bar.
Anacrusis
Articulation
Riff
Tonal Sequence
5. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Subdominant
Bassoon
Notes of Anticipation
Texture
6. Clarinets - bass clarinets - trumpets - tenor saxes - baritones
Irregular rhythm
Stretto
Ternary Form
B flat instruments
7. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Accented Passing Note
Homophonic
Ionian
Real Sequence
8. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Hocket
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Rhythmic displacement
Natural Minor Scale
9. Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
Articulation
Kodaly Method
Arco
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
10. Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
Bassoon
Alto Clef
Coda
Repetition
11. F- F
Fanfare
Diminished
Stretto
Lydian
12. Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices imitate a leading voice.
Arpeggio
Kodaly Method
Canon
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
13. Repetition by one or more different voices of a phrase.
Note that is transposing figured around
Imitation
Diminution
Stretto
14. V - vi
Harmonic
Interrupted Cadence
Accidentals
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
15. Piccolo - Guitar - Bass Guitar
Friedrich Froebel
Instruments that transpose at the octave
AOSA
Major Scale Semitones
16. Increasing the note values of a musical theme - usually to twice their value.
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
Consonance
Augmentation
Portamento
17. Repeating a theme or motif with notes of smaller value (usually half)
Accent
Arpeggio
Diminution
Programme Music
18. C clef sometimes used by the cello - bassoon - and trombone. C is on the second to top line
Tenor Clef
B flat instruments
Extension
Countermelody
19. Turning upside down. Change of the relative position of an interval - chord - or melody.
Inversion
Mixolydian
Ionian
Coda
20. Music that attemtps to paint a picture or mood - describe an action - or tell a story. Very popular in the Romantic period.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Programme Music
Harmonic Sequences
Melodic Sequences
21. Middle C
Comenius
Ionian
Tonal Sequence
Note that is transposing figured around
22. Modification of motif and themes. The main ways of developing a theme are by imitation - sequence - inversion - fragmentation - augmentation - and diminution.
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Homophonic
Whole Tone Scale
Development
23. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Articulation
Chromatic Scale
Hammer on
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
24. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Dominant
Consonance
Contrary motion
Passing Notes
25. Consists entirely of whole steps.
Motif
Tonic
Whole Tone Scale
Figured Bass
26. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Real Sequence
Imitation
Subdominant
Melodic Sequences
27. Made smaller.
A instruments
Binary form
Fragmentation
Diminished
28. Alto and tenor clefs
Plagal Cadence
C Clefs
Hocket
Alberti Bass
29. General music courses involve listening - composing - and performing for all students.
ASCAP
Auxiliary Notes
MM
Bennet Reimer
30. A melody moves by inversion if it moves in ___________ when repeated. Sometimes the intervals are not exact.
Notes of Anticipation
Register
Contrary motion
Pull off
31. Founder of kindergarten. Advocated dance and music in regards to nature as they played outside. Wrote Mother Play and Nursery songs with tunes.
Passing Notes
Imitation by Inversion
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Friedrich Froebel
32. 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.
Phrygian
Dalcroze
Glissando
Riff
33. IV - I
Plagal Cadence
5
B flat Bass Transposition
Chromatic Scale
34. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Absolute Music
French Horn Transposition
Interval
Augmented
35. 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.
Note that is transposing figured around
ACDA
Phrase
Dominant
36. Third tone in a major or minor scale
ASCAP
Inverted Pedal
Mediant
Tenor
37. Background support for a melody.
Inverted Pedal
Accompaniment
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Accidentals
38. Phrase is imitated by turning it upsidedown.
Melodic Minor Scale
MM
Imitation by Inversion
JRME
39. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Leading Note
Irregular rhythm
Programme Music
Consonance
40. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
B flat Bass Transposition
Kodaly
AOSA
Inversion
41. Distance between any two notes
Interval
Supertonic
Introduction
Melody
42. Scales that share the same key signature (C major - A minor)
Ostinato
Chromatic Scale
Imitation
Relative (Major/Minor)
43. If the pedal is in any part other than the bass.
Pulse
Inverted Pedal
Articulation
Melody
44. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Accent
Retrograde
Inverted Pedal
Imitation by Inversion
45. Sounds major sixth lower. Written with key signature.
Phrase
Ternary Form
E flat Tenor Horn/E flat Alto Sax Transposition
Lydian
46. Fifth tone in a major or minor scale.
Retrograde
Leading Note
Dominant
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
47. Natural Pitch
Harmonic
ABA
Natural Minor Scale
Coda
48. Sharpened 6 and 7 - but reverted to naturals when descending
Perfect Cadence
Melodic Minor Scale
Concert pitch
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
49. Come at the end of a passage and anticipate the final chord.
Notes of Anticipation
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
ASCAP
Glissando
50. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Rhythmic Imitation
Baritone - Euphonium - Tenor Trombone Transposition
Ionian