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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Johann Hummel from?
(a) Austria.
(b) Russia.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Scotland.

2. What celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) Muzio Clementi.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) John Field.

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) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Legato.
(c) Arpeggio.
(d) Style galant.

5. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?
(a) 19th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 17th.
(d) 16th.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what year was the piano invented?

3. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?

4. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?

5. 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?

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