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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVIII and XXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?
(a) Sergei Rachmaninoff's.
(b) Josef Lhevinne's.
(c) Isadora Duncan's.
(d) Paderewski's.

2. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Legato.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Tempo rubato.

3. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1799.

5. Where was Chopin born?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Krakaw, Poland.
(d) Vienna, Austria.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?

2. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?

3. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?

4. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

5. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?

(see the answer key)

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