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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. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
(a) 1749.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1714.

2. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Contrapuntal style.
(c) Legato.
(d) Fugue.

3. 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?
(a) Etude.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Sonata.
(d) Legato.

4. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?
(a) Classicism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Modernism.

5. When was Johann Hummel born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1778.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?

2. What celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?

3. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?

4. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?

5. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?

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