Praxis 5113 Performance Exam Questions With
100% Correct Answers 2024.
What to pay attention to in order to achieve good choral blend
Vowel modification, dynamics, and vibrato.
How do you produce a pure vowel sound?
The mouth cavity must be open with a raised palette.
Negative results of not hearing yourself sing in a choral setting
Productive collaboration is hindered, inaccurate intonation, and less likely to be actively
listening and self-adjusting.
Negative results of not hearing yourself play in an ensemble
Productive collaboration is hindered, inaccurate tuning, rhythm, and phrasing, and less
likely to actively listen and self-adjust.
Key musical elements of a unified ensemble performance
Tuning, balance, phrasing, articulation, and cut-offs.
Choral balance
An equal level of sound coming from all voices and ranges
Choral blend
Uniformity of vowel formation and tone among singers
2/4 Conducting pattern
Down-up
3/4 conducting pattern
Down-out-up
4/4 conducting pattern
Down-out-in-up
6/8 conducting pattern
Down-in-in-out-out-up
Advantages of studying recordings
Helps conductor become more familiar with a piece.
Disadvantages of studying recordings
Could cause conductor to "parrot" recordings instead of making their own
interpretations. Conductors could imitate styles that are not historically accurate.
Techniques used to learn a score
Play all the vocal parts together on the piano, play the accompaniment separately, read
the text aloud poetically, analyze the score structurally, harmonically, dynamically, and
melodically, and mark the score extensively.
Resources for score research
Scholarly books, journals, and articles. Extra-musical art forms such as literature,
dance, visual art, and theater. Various recordings and interviews from the composer.
Musical elements involved in interpretation
Note durations, stresses, tempo, articulation, phrasing, dynamics, and the conductor's
own understanding of the music's beginnings, climaxes, and endings as well as the
historical background of the piece.
Ostinato
, A short, repeating accompaniment pattern throughout a musical work that can consist of
a simple rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic idea.
How are ostinatos used in terms of improvisation?
Tool for creating new ideas and melodies. Allows the melody line to focus on a free
delivery.
What is an ostinato called when used in Baroque music?
Basso ostinato or ground bass
What is an ostinato called when used in jazz music?
Riff or vamp
What areas besides the west use ostinatos?
Africa and India
Arpeggio
A chord that is played note by note, successively instead of simultaneously.
Another term for arpeggio
Broken chord
Using arpeggiation in accompaniment
The musician plays individual chords as arpeggios. Fills out the texture of the sound
and adds forward motion to the music. Tend to soften the delivery of the
accompaniment and give the music a sense of lightness.
Blocked chords
Pitches that are played simultaneously like a chord.
Using blocked chords in accompaniment
Can help simplify the sight-reading process, and makes accompaniment simple if
reading from a chord chart.
Most common clefs in Western music notation
G clef (treble clef), C clef (tenor clef), and F clef (bass clef)
Durational rhythm
closely tied with meter, and consist of the aspect of rhythm associated with patterns of
duration, emphases, and groupings.
Tonal rhythm
independent of meter. rhythmic properties of the tonal system. EX. sources of tonal
rhythm include recurrence of a single tone, the octave relationship chordal and linear
associations, consonance, and dissonance.
Forzando
Italian for "forced." Strongly accent notes.
Rinforzando
"reinforcing" or "strengthening." Increase in volume of a group of notes throughout a
phrase. Like a crescendo but over a shorter length of time
Sforzando
Italian for "forced." Strongly accent notes. Interchangeable with forzando
Con
With
Con amore
With love. "Amorevole" or "amoroso" or "lovingly."
Con bravura
with bravery
100% Correct Answers 2024.
What to pay attention to in order to achieve good choral blend
Vowel modification, dynamics, and vibrato.
How do you produce a pure vowel sound?
The mouth cavity must be open with a raised palette.
Negative results of not hearing yourself sing in a choral setting
Productive collaboration is hindered, inaccurate intonation, and less likely to be actively
listening and self-adjusting.
Negative results of not hearing yourself play in an ensemble
Productive collaboration is hindered, inaccurate tuning, rhythm, and phrasing, and less
likely to actively listen and self-adjust.
Key musical elements of a unified ensemble performance
Tuning, balance, phrasing, articulation, and cut-offs.
Choral balance
An equal level of sound coming from all voices and ranges
Choral blend
Uniformity of vowel formation and tone among singers
2/4 Conducting pattern
Down-up
3/4 conducting pattern
Down-out-up
4/4 conducting pattern
Down-out-in-up
6/8 conducting pattern
Down-in-in-out-out-up
Advantages of studying recordings
Helps conductor become more familiar with a piece.
Disadvantages of studying recordings
Could cause conductor to "parrot" recordings instead of making their own
interpretations. Conductors could imitate styles that are not historically accurate.
Techniques used to learn a score
Play all the vocal parts together on the piano, play the accompaniment separately, read
the text aloud poetically, analyze the score structurally, harmonically, dynamically, and
melodically, and mark the score extensively.
Resources for score research
Scholarly books, journals, and articles. Extra-musical art forms such as literature,
dance, visual art, and theater. Various recordings and interviews from the composer.
Musical elements involved in interpretation
Note durations, stresses, tempo, articulation, phrasing, dynamics, and the conductor's
own understanding of the music's beginnings, climaxes, and endings as well as the
historical background of the piece.
Ostinato
, A short, repeating accompaniment pattern throughout a musical work that can consist of
a simple rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic idea.
How are ostinatos used in terms of improvisation?
Tool for creating new ideas and melodies. Allows the melody line to focus on a free
delivery.
What is an ostinato called when used in Baroque music?
Basso ostinato or ground bass
What is an ostinato called when used in jazz music?
Riff or vamp
What areas besides the west use ostinatos?
Africa and India
Arpeggio
A chord that is played note by note, successively instead of simultaneously.
Another term for arpeggio
Broken chord
Using arpeggiation in accompaniment
The musician plays individual chords as arpeggios. Fills out the texture of the sound
and adds forward motion to the music. Tend to soften the delivery of the
accompaniment and give the music a sense of lightness.
Blocked chords
Pitches that are played simultaneously like a chord.
Using blocked chords in accompaniment
Can help simplify the sight-reading process, and makes accompaniment simple if
reading from a chord chart.
Most common clefs in Western music notation
G clef (treble clef), C clef (tenor clef), and F clef (bass clef)
Durational rhythm
closely tied with meter, and consist of the aspect of rhythm associated with patterns of
duration, emphases, and groupings.
Tonal rhythm
independent of meter. rhythmic properties of the tonal system. EX. sources of tonal
rhythm include recurrence of a single tone, the octave relationship chordal and linear
associations, consonance, and dissonance.
Forzando
Italian for "forced." Strongly accent notes.
Rinforzando
"reinforcing" or "strengthening." Increase in volume of a group of notes throughout a
phrase. Like a crescendo but over a shorter length of time
Sforzando
Italian for "forced." Strongly accent notes. Interchangeable with forzando
Con
With
Con amore
With love. "Amorevole" or "amoroso" or "lovingly."
Con bravura
with bravery
