Music Education Praxis Exam 2024/2025Questions and
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The balalaika is a stringed instrument commonly heard in the folk music of - ✔✔Russia
Which of the following statements about the guitarron, played in traditional Mexican
mariachi
ensembles, is correct? - ✔✔Its part is primarily played in octaves.
What time period is Arcangelo Corelli placed in? - ✔✔Baroque
What time period is Muzio Clementi placed in? - ✔✔Classical
What time period is Charles-Francois Gounod placed in? - ✔✔Romantic
What time period is Josquin des Pres placed in? - ✔✔Renaissance
Subito meno mosso - ✔✔Suddenly with less motion or at a slower tempo
Subito piu mosso - ✔✔suddenly more movement
Passacaglia - ✔✔Variations over a ground bass.
Toccata - ✔✔a virtuoso piece common during the Baroque Period, written in free style with
many scales and rapid passages
, chorale prelude - ✔✔Relatively short setting for organ of a CHORALE MELODY, used as an
introduction for congregational singing or as an interlude in a Lutheran church service.
Syncopation - ✔✔temporary irregularity in musical rhythm
Hemiola - ✔✔a shift of the rhythmic pulse from a division of 2 to a division of 3
Rubato - ✔✔Flexible tempo
Anacrusis - ✔✔pick up note
Rim shot - ✔✔(drumming technique) one loud hit
Flam - ✔✔you know this
Paradiddle - ✔✔(drumming technique)par-a-di-dle
Imitative polyphonic texture - ✔✔Texture with multiple lines in rounds
nonimitative polyphony - ✔✔two or more melodic lines playing distinct melodies
monophony (monophonic texture) - ✔✔single-line texture, or melody without
accompaniment
Homophony Texture - ✔✔music that features a melodic line supported by chords
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The balalaika is a stringed instrument commonly heard in the folk music of - ✔✔Russia
Which of the following statements about the guitarron, played in traditional Mexican
mariachi
ensembles, is correct? - ✔✔Its part is primarily played in octaves.
What time period is Arcangelo Corelli placed in? - ✔✔Baroque
What time period is Muzio Clementi placed in? - ✔✔Classical
What time period is Charles-Francois Gounod placed in? - ✔✔Romantic
What time period is Josquin des Pres placed in? - ✔✔Renaissance
Subito meno mosso - ✔✔Suddenly with less motion or at a slower tempo
Subito piu mosso - ✔✔suddenly more movement
Passacaglia - ✔✔Variations over a ground bass.
Toccata - ✔✔a virtuoso piece common during the Baroque Period, written in free style with
many scales and rapid passages
, chorale prelude - ✔✔Relatively short setting for organ of a CHORALE MELODY, used as an
introduction for congregational singing or as an interlude in a Lutheran church service.
Syncopation - ✔✔temporary irregularity in musical rhythm
Hemiola - ✔✔a shift of the rhythmic pulse from a division of 2 to a division of 3
Rubato - ✔✔Flexible tempo
Anacrusis - ✔✔pick up note
Rim shot - ✔✔(drumming technique) one loud hit
Flam - ✔✔you know this
Paradiddle - ✔✔(drumming technique)par-a-di-dle
Imitative polyphonic texture - ✔✔Texture with multiple lines in rounds
nonimitative polyphony - ✔✔two or more melodic lines playing distinct melodies
monophony (monophonic texture) - ✔✔single-line texture, or melody without
accompaniment
Homophony Texture - ✔✔music that features a melodic line supported by chords
