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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII through X.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?
(a) 1772.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1814.
2. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Carl Czerny.
3. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.
4. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?
(a) 1740.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1798.
5. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.
Short Answer Questions
1. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?
2. 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?
3. What musical instrument consists of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air, played by means of one or more keyboards, and capable of producing a wide range of musical effects?
4. What term is used to identify a type of music that is a singing, nuanced, fluffy, polite, and melodic approach developed after Bach's death when the heavy contrapuntal style used in the tempestuous fugue fell into disfavor?
5. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?
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