Praxis Subject Assessment: Music: Content Knowledge (5113)

The Music: Content Knowledge test is designed to assess a beginning music teacher's knowledge and understanding of music and music education. Examinees taking this test will typically have completed, or will have nearly completed, an undergraduate music education program. The test content assesses key indicators of the beginning educator's musical knowledge and professional readiness for K-12 music instruction required for individuals teaching courses to students in instrumental, vocal, or general music settings, or who will teach courses drawn from any combination of these three areas. Such knowledge is acquired through completion of an undergraduate music education degree program. The material in the test, therefore, is not appropriate for those hired in an adjunct capacity to teach a single element of the curriculum (e.g., those hired to teach only individual lessons or classes on a single instrument). Materials appearing on the test reflect the diversity of examinees' music instruction specialties as well as the cultural and demographic inclusiveness of modern music instruction. These materials also reflect instrumental (woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings), vocal, jazz, and general music instruction specialties across the K-12 grade range. Questions selected for the test represent an equitable distribution of topics, including topics unique to each specialty as well as those that are common across all specialties.