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. A- A
Inverted Pedal
Aeolian
Hammer on
Binary form
2. Breaking of a melody into single notes or very short phrases by using rests. The melody is then shared between different voices.
Subdominant
Tonality
Melodic Minor Scale
Hocket
3. Repeating a rhythm in a different part of the bar.
Rhythmic displacement
Bennet Reimer
45
Cadence
4. Music where two or more equally important melodic lines are combined and woven together with rhythmic contrast happening between the voices.
Polyphonic
5
5%
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
5. G- G
Pedal Point
Stretto
Augmented
Mixolydian
6. Sounds major 16th lower. i.e. major second + two octaves
Dominant
B flat Soprano Saxophone Transposition
Note that is transposing figured around
B flat Bass Transposition
7. Fourth tone in a major/minor scale
Absolute Music
Mediant
Rondo Form
Subdominant
8. Sounds major second lower. Same as B flat trumpets.
Pulse
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Fanfare
Inversions of chords
9. 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.
Mediant
Fanfare
Accompaniment
French Horn Transposition
10. Only occur in the melody over an independent bass.
Harmonic Minor Scale Semitones
Rhythmic displacement
Accent
Melodic Sequences
11. I - V ii - V IV - V
Imperfect Cadence
Instruments that transpose at the octave
Dorian Mode
Plagal Cadence
12. Music that moves in harmonic blocks (as opposed to the linear way polyphonic music moves)
Figured Bass
Notes of Anticipation
Homophonic
Texture
13. E- E
Phrygian
Monophonic
Chromatic Scale
Tonal Sequence
14. Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
Notes of Anticipation
Rhythm
Antiphonal
Polytonality
15. A composition or part of a composition that can be performed backwards as well as forwards.
B flat instruments
Aeolian
Inverted Pedal
Retrograde
16. Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato - legato - accent.
Consonance
8
Accidentals
Articulation
17. Needs to be written a minor third higher.
Register
A instruments
Imitation by Inversion
Semitone
18. American String Teachers Assocation
Dalcroze
Introduction
ASTA
Timbre
19. Minor key with the same tonic as a major one. C major and C minor.
5
Accidentals
Tonic Minor
Pentatonic Scale
20. For these instruments to sound a major second lower than it is written - their music needs to be written a major second higher.
Inversion
Polytonality
B flat instruments
Extension
21. Highest natural adult male voice
Supertonic
Tonic
Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Tenor
22. Only the rhythm of a passage is imitated - not the melody.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Tenor Clef
Submediant
Rhythmic Imitation
23. Rhythms that constantly change or are grouped in a different way.
Dominant
Homophonic
Irregular rhythm
Imitation by Inversion
24. American Orff - Schulwerk Association
Register
Imitation
Friedrich Froebel
AOSA
25. Seventh tone in a major or minor scale
Hammer on
Tenor Clef
Leading Note
Ionian
26. Middle C
Note that is transposing figured around
Augmented
Polytonality
Pull off
27. Distance between any two notes
Kodaly Method
Interval
Concert pitch
Hornbostel - Sachs System of Musical Instruments Classification
28. Stress placed on a particular note in relation to others around it.
Stretto
Accent
Leading Note
Tonic Minor
29. C- C
ACDA
Ionian
Rhythm
Ternary Form
30. Background support for a melody.
Passing Notes
Accompaniment
Imperfect Cadence
Kodaly Method
31. 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
32. Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic period is known as the period of chromaticism.
E flat Soprano Cornet Transposition
Harmonic Minor Scale
Canon
Chromatic
33. Maelzel's Metronome
MM
Subdominant
Hocket
Arpeggio
34. Form of decoration; Unessential note that is not part of the harmony. Occurs off the beat.
Contrary motion
Semitone
Dalcroze
Passing Notes
35. Second tone in a major/minor scale
Microtone
Phrygian
Supertonic
Pull off
36. Thick or thin - How many instruments or voices are performing together.
Rubato
Cor Anglais Transposition
Texture
Atonal
37. Chord that is in a different key to the one before it with no notes in common.
Pulse
Smear
Imperfect Cadence
Unrelated Chord
38. Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Antiphonal
Pull off
Glissando
Arpeggio
39. Intervals of the first phrase are NOT reproduced exactly.
Rondo Form
Tonal Sequence
Microtone
Imitation by Inversion
40. F- F
Lydian
B flat Bass Transposition
Consonance
Contrary motion
41. American Choral Director's Association
Extension
Tonality
ACDA
Instruments that transpose at the octave
42. Accenting of a beat that is not normally accented
Perfect Cadence
Dissonance
Syncopation
Whole Tone Scale
43. High - clear - pure sound produced on a string instrument by lightly stopping the string at its halfway point.
Interrupted Cadence
Binary form
Absolute Music
Harmonic
44. Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
Accidentals
Blues
Rubato
45. C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
B flat Cornet Flugel Horn Transposition
Timbre
Natural Minor Scale
Alto Clef
46. Glissando in jazz music
Smear
Inverted Pedal
Tonal Sequence
Articulation
47. Steady beat that is present in almost every musical composition.
Pulse
Chromatic Scale
Arco
E flat Bass/E flat Baritone Saxophone Transposition
48. Pure music - not linked to words or descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Tenor
Leading Note
Polytonality
Absolute Music
49. I - IV - V
Primary Triads
ABA
Inversion
Supertonic
50. Organization of musical notes in time.
Aeolian
Natural Minor Scale
Harmonic
Rhythm