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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old was Isaac Albeniz when he debuted in 1864 Spain?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.
2. What term refers to any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration?
(a)
(b)
(c) Percussion.
(d)
3. How old was Josef Hofmann when he made his American debut?
(a) 9.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.
4. When did Josef Hofmann make his Hamburg debut?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1915.
5. In what year was Harold Bauer born?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1858.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1911.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Josef Hofmann born?
2. How old was Wilhelm Backhaus when he made his first concert tour?
3. In what year did Josef Hofmann play 255 different works in twenty-one concerts without repeating any?
4. What musical school did Anton Rubinstein found?
5. In what year did Isaac Albeniz go to San Francisco before returning to Europe?
Short Essay Questions
1. What example is given to illustrate modernist principles with Josef Hofmann?
2. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?
3. Who were the forerunners of modernism? How did modernism differ from romanticism?
4. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut? What toll did it take on him?
5. Who was Harold Bauer? Describe the Bauer's early career.
6. What was the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on music?
7. Compare the style and works of Busoni and Godowsky. How does the author relate their philosophical differences?
8. What relationship did Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz share? How did they differ in performance styles?
9. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?
10. What Polish pianists are described in Chapter XXIV, The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and Others in addition to de Pachmann and Godowsky?
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