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Music Praxis II (5113) Questions with Correct
Answers | Updated (100% Correct Answers)
Aristotle: Answer: virtues not human reasoning
The quantization function in the MIDI software is used for Answer:
allowing the user to select the smallest note value that will be
imported into the score as the MIDI file is played.
Alto Flute: Answer: Sounds a perfect 4th lower than written
Aerophones: Answer: Instruments that produce sound by using air
ABA: Answer: American Bandmaster's Association
Op. (work) or Opp. (works) Answer: a term used to classify a
composition in relation to the composer's other compositions.
Absolute Music: Answer: Pure music, not linked to words or
descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Accelerando: Answer: Gradually accelerating or getting faster.
Accented Passing Note: Answer: an unessential note that falls on
the beat.
ACDA: Answer: American Choral Directors Association
Adagio: Answer: slow.
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Affective Behaviors: Answer: growth in physical or emotional areas
(attitude).
Alberti Bass: Answer: 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.
Alla Breve: Answer: a tempo marking indicating a quick duple meter
2/2.
Allegro: Answer: fast.
Alto Clef: Answer: C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Anacrusis: Answer: Pick up bar. An Upbeat or a pickup note(s); a
term used for unstressed notes at the beginning of a phrase of
music.
Andante: Answer: walking tempo.
Antiphonal: Answer: Alternate singing or playing by different
groups.
Anton Bruckner: Answer: Austria 1824-1896
AOSA: Answer: American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Appoggiaturas: Answer: Note that does not form part of the
harmony and is approached by a leap and left by a step.
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Arco: Answer: instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of
music.
Aria: Answer: solo vocal piece with instrumental accompaniment.
Arpeggio: Answer: chord whose notes are played one after another.
Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Articulation: Answer: Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include
staccato, legato, accent.
ASCAP: Answer: American Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers.
ASTA: Answer: American String Teachers Association
Atonal: Answer: without key center.
Attack: Answer: indicated by the speed of the acceleration and the
force of the ictus.
Augmentation: Answer: Statement of a melody in linger note
values, often twice as slow as the original. Increasing the note values
of a musical theme, usually to twice their value.
Augmented: Answer: made larger.
Auxiliary Notes: Answer: come between notes of the same pitch,
either a note higher or note lower.
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Bruno: Answer: spiral curriculam, each subject revisited at intervals.
B Flat Bass Clarinet: Answer: sounds a Major 9th lower than written
B Flat Clarinet: Answer: sounds a major 2nd lower than written
B Flat Soprano Sax: Answer: sounds a major 2nd lower than written
B Flat Tenor Sax: Answer: sounds a major 9th lower than written
B Flat Trumpet: Answer: Sounds a major 2nd lower than written.
Name in chronological order each piece of music was written--
Answer: Brandenburg Concertos, Magic Flute, Symphonie
Fantastique, Rite of Spring
Bassoon: Answer: Bed post, double reed, connected with a bocal
B Flat instruments Answer: clarinets, bass clarinets, trumpets, tenor
saxes, baritones
Bach Answer: Baroque composer, Brandenburg Concerto, Fugue in
D minor, Toccata; Organ was his main instrument.
Bare Chord: Answer: chord without a third
Baritones can sing in the range of-- Answer: G2-F4
Bass: Answer: Charlie Mingus
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Music Praxis II (5113) Questions with Correct
Answers | Updated (100% Correct Answers)
Aristotle: Answer: virtues not human reasoning
The quantization function in the MIDI software is used for Answer:
allowing the user to select the smallest note value that will be
imported into the score as the MIDI file is played.
Alto Flute: Answer: Sounds a perfect 4th lower than written
Aerophones: Answer: Instruments that produce sound by using air
ABA: Answer: American Bandmaster's Association
Op. (work) or Opp. (works) Answer: a term used to classify a
composition in relation to the composer's other compositions.
Absolute Music: Answer: Pure music, not linked to words or
descriptive ideas. Opposite of program music.
Accelerando: Answer: Gradually accelerating or getting faster.
Accented Passing Note: Answer: an unessential note that falls on
the beat.
ACDA: Answer: American Choral Directors Association
Adagio: Answer: slow.
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Affective Behaviors: Answer: growth in physical or emotional areas
(attitude).
Alberti Bass: Answer: 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.
Alla Breve: Answer: a tempo marking indicating a quick duple meter
2/2.
Allegro: Answer: fast.
Alto Clef: Answer: C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
Anacrusis: Answer: Pick up bar. An Upbeat or a pickup note(s); a
term used for unstressed notes at the beginning of a phrase of
music.
Andante: Answer: walking tempo.
Antiphonal: Answer: Alternate singing or playing by different
groups.
Anton Bruckner: Answer: Austria 1824-1896
AOSA: Answer: American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Appoggiaturas: Answer: Note that does not form part of the
harmony and is approached by a leap and left by a step.
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Arco: Answer: instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of
music.
Aria: Answer: solo vocal piece with instrumental accompaniment.
Arpeggio: Answer: chord whose notes are played one after another.
Sometimes it is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
Articulation: Answer: Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include
staccato, legato, accent.
ASCAP: Answer: American Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers.
ASTA: Answer: American String Teachers Association
Atonal: Answer: without key center.
Attack: Answer: indicated by the speed of the acceleration and the
force of the ictus.
Augmentation: Answer: Statement of a melody in linger note
values, often twice as slow as the original. Increasing the note values
of a musical theme, usually to twice their value.
Augmented: Answer: made larger.
Auxiliary Notes: Answer: come between notes of the same pitch,
either a note higher or note lower.
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Bruno: Answer: spiral curriculam, each subject revisited at intervals.
B Flat Bass Clarinet: Answer: sounds a Major 9th lower than written
B Flat Clarinet: Answer: sounds a major 2nd lower than written
B Flat Soprano Sax: Answer: sounds a major 2nd lower than written
B Flat Tenor Sax: Answer: sounds a major 9th lower than written
B Flat Trumpet: Answer: Sounds a major 2nd lower than written.
Name in chronological order each piece of music was written--
Answer: Brandenburg Concertos, Magic Flute, Symphonie
Fantastique, Rite of Spring
Bassoon: Answer: Bed post, double reed, connected with a bocal
B Flat instruments Answer: clarinets, bass clarinets, trumpets, tenor
saxes, baritones
Bach Answer: Baroque composer, Brandenburg Concerto, Fugue in
D minor, Toccata; Organ was his main instrument.
Bare Chord: Answer: chord without a third
Baritones can sing in the range of-- Answer: G2-F4
Bass: Answer: Charlie Mingus
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