CSET Multiple Subject Subtest III Visual
and Performing Arts Music questions and
answers 2024\2025 A+ Grade
Aesthetic Perception
- correct answer Insight into our world of images, sound, color, patterns, forms, and movements.
The educational Goals of Aesthetic Perception
- correct answer 1. To develop sensitivity to musics expressive qualities.
2. To increase aural awareness
3. To encourage musical responsiness, involvement, and discrimination.
Elements of Music
- correct answer Pitch, Thythm, Harmony, Form, Texture, Tempo, Dynamics, Timbre, Notation.
Pitch
- correct answer The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration. A tone's
highness or lowness; depends on frequency. Creaes Melody. Progressive pitches crete scales like Do-Re-
Me-Fa-So-La-Te-Da.
Melodic Meaning
- correct answer effected by range, register length, of groupings, and size of intervels
Rhythm
- correct answer Musical quality in language produced by repetition. Measered in units of time. These
beats can be organized into sets. Patterns can be repeated.
Harmony
- correct answer Simultaneous sounding of two or more different tones. Thre or more simultaneous
tones make a chord. Chords can be modified.
, Form
- correct answer The design of music is created by the interaction of its elements. Repetition of elements
creates unity. Contrasting elements creates variety.
Texture
- correct answer Total sound may have differing textures such as thick this opaque and trasparent.
Motifs may have texures such as Legato, smooth sounding or staccato, clipped sounding.
Tempo
- correct answer The speed at which a composition is to be played. It effects musics character. Adds to
expressiveness. Is referred to by specific terms like lento, slow and prest, quick.
Dynamics
- correct answer The degrees of loudness in a musical work. Changes the expressive effect. Is referred to
by specific terms such as piano, soft, pianissimo, very soft, forte, loud, and forissimo, very loud.
Timbre
- correct answer The unique tonal quality produced by an instrument or voice. Each instrument family of
woodwinds, percussion, strings, and brass has its characteristic sound.
Notation
- correct answer The written form of music. Composed of a avariety of symbols for notes, rests, pitch
and so on.
Development of Musical Skills
- correct answer 1. Basis for complete musical understanding.
2. Skill development leads to sensitivity of music's expressive qualities and Development of musical
responsiveness, involement and discrimination.
Auditory Skills
- correct answer Hearing the sounds of music.Children engage in attentive listening and further develop
aural acuity.
This means that children must be able to hear and reproduce the tones of music in their minds when no
sound is actually being produced.
and Performing Arts Music questions and
answers 2024\2025 A+ Grade
Aesthetic Perception
- correct answer Insight into our world of images, sound, color, patterns, forms, and movements.
The educational Goals of Aesthetic Perception
- correct answer 1. To develop sensitivity to musics expressive qualities.
2. To increase aural awareness
3. To encourage musical responsiness, involvement, and discrimination.
Elements of Music
- correct answer Pitch, Thythm, Harmony, Form, Texture, Tempo, Dynamics, Timbre, Notation.
Pitch
- correct answer The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration. A tone's
highness or lowness; depends on frequency. Creaes Melody. Progressive pitches crete scales like Do-Re-
Me-Fa-So-La-Te-Da.
Melodic Meaning
- correct answer effected by range, register length, of groupings, and size of intervels
Rhythm
- correct answer Musical quality in language produced by repetition. Measered in units of time. These
beats can be organized into sets. Patterns can be repeated.
Harmony
- correct answer Simultaneous sounding of two or more different tones. Thre or more simultaneous
tones make a chord. Chords can be modified.
, Form
- correct answer The design of music is created by the interaction of its elements. Repetition of elements
creates unity. Contrasting elements creates variety.
Texture
- correct answer Total sound may have differing textures such as thick this opaque and trasparent.
Motifs may have texures such as Legato, smooth sounding or staccato, clipped sounding.
Tempo
- correct answer The speed at which a composition is to be played. It effects musics character. Adds to
expressiveness. Is referred to by specific terms like lento, slow and prest, quick.
Dynamics
- correct answer The degrees of loudness in a musical work. Changes the expressive effect. Is referred to
by specific terms such as piano, soft, pianissimo, very soft, forte, loud, and forissimo, very loud.
Timbre
- correct answer The unique tonal quality produced by an instrument or voice. Each instrument family of
woodwinds, percussion, strings, and brass has its characteristic sound.
Notation
- correct answer The written form of music. Composed of a avariety of symbols for notes, rests, pitch
and so on.
Development of Musical Skills
- correct answer 1. Basis for complete musical understanding.
2. Skill development leads to sensitivity of music's expressive qualities and Development of musical
responsiveness, involement and discrimination.
Auditory Skills
- correct answer Hearing the sounds of music.Children engage in attentive listening and further develop
aural acuity.
This means that children must be able to hear and reproduce the tones of music in their minds when no
sound is actually being produced.
