MTEL Music questions with verified answers
Alberti Bass Ans✓✓✓-A broken chord bass configuration. The notes of a triad are
played low, high, middle, high, low.
aleatoric music Ans✓✓✓-Chance music. John Cage.
Amy Beach Ans✓✓✓-First female composer from America who had a successful
large-scale work published.
Appogiatura Ans✓✓✓-"to lean"
A note that sounds dissonant against the melody and usually resolves
downwards.
Augmented 6th Chords Ans✓✓✓-All have do, fi, and le.
Italian: do, le, fi
French: do, re, le, fi
German: do, me, le, fi
leads to V chord.
Bartok Ans✓✓✓-Wrote Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Percussion and
Celesta. Used Edison cylinders to record Hungarian peoples music to use in his
own music.
Beethoven Ans✓✓✓-Classical, more Romantic composer. Uses scherzos in his
3rd movement. Second movements are usually theme and variations. Partially
deaf- used an ear trumpet .Heiligenstadt testament - Beethoven writes to his
, brother,. coming to terms with his overbearing deafness. His third symphony is a
joyful masterpiece of overcoming his deafness. Introduces the trombone in the
last movement of symphony 5. Introduces chorus in Sym 9. Wrote 1 opera -
Fidelio.
Berg Ans✓✓✓-Last of the Second Viennese School, famous for atonal operas
Wozzeck and Lulu
Bernstein Ans✓✓✓-Composer and Conductor. Most influential American
musician to ever walk the earth. First real American that Europeans took
seriously. Champion of American music - especially Copland, Diamond, and Roy
Harris.
Billings Ans✓✓✓-first american choral composer. Mostly, self-taught.
Clara Schumann Ans✓✓✓-one of the best pianists of the romantic era. One of
the first female composers.
Comprehensive Musicianship Ans✓✓✓-ways to develop and improve the music
teacher's education.
concerto grosso Ans✓✓✓-when music is passed between a group of soloists and
a full orchestra.
Copyright Laws of Music Ans✓✓✓--For a new song or other work, copyright
begins at the moment of fixation — when the music and lyrics have been set
down on paper, recorded, or stored on a computer. Copyright protects the
musician even if the song is never registered with the Copyright Office.
Alberti Bass Ans✓✓✓-A broken chord bass configuration. The notes of a triad are
played low, high, middle, high, low.
aleatoric music Ans✓✓✓-Chance music. John Cage.
Amy Beach Ans✓✓✓-First female composer from America who had a successful
large-scale work published.
Appogiatura Ans✓✓✓-"to lean"
A note that sounds dissonant against the melody and usually resolves
downwards.
Augmented 6th Chords Ans✓✓✓-All have do, fi, and le.
Italian: do, le, fi
French: do, re, le, fi
German: do, me, le, fi
leads to V chord.
Bartok Ans✓✓✓-Wrote Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Percussion and
Celesta. Used Edison cylinders to record Hungarian peoples music to use in his
own music.
Beethoven Ans✓✓✓-Classical, more Romantic composer. Uses scherzos in his
3rd movement. Second movements are usually theme and variations. Partially
deaf- used an ear trumpet .Heiligenstadt testament - Beethoven writes to his
, brother,. coming to terms with his overbearing deafness. His third symphony is a
joyful masterpiece of overcoming his deafness. Introduces the trombone in the
last movement of symphony 5. Introduces chorus in Sym 9. Wrote 1 opera -
Fidelio.
Berg Ans✓✓✓-Last of the Second Viennese School, famous for atonal operas
Wozzeck and Lulu
Bernstein Ans✓✓✓-Composer and Conductor. Most influential American
musician to ever walk the earth. First real American that Europeans took
seriously. Champion of American music - especially Copland, Diamond, and Roy
Harris.
Billings Ans✓✓✓-first american choral composer. Mostly, self-taught.
Clara Schumann Ans✓✓✓-one of the best pianists of the romantic era. One of
the first female composers.
Comprehensive Musicianship Ans✓✓✓-ways to develop and improve the music
teacher's education.
concerto grosso Ans✓✓✓-when music is passed between a group of soloists and
a full orchestra.
Copyright Laws of Music Ans✓✓✓--For a new song or other work, copyright
begins at the moment of fixation — when the music and lyrics have been set
down on paper, recorded, or stored on a computer. Copyright protects the
musician even if the song is never registered with the Copyright Office.
