The Great Pianists Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Harold C. Schonberg
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Great Pianists Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Harold C. Schonberg
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI through XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?
(a) Etuge.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Legato.
(d) Stacatto.

2. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1902.

3. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?
(a) Felix Mendelssohn.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(d) Carl Czerny.

4. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Bertold Hummel.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

5. Who played melody with his thumbs in the middle of the keyboard while his fingers played arpeggios up and down the keyboard?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Bertold Hummel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings?

2. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?

3. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?

4. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?

5. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

(see the answer key)

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