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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXIV and XXV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?
(a) Legato.
(b) Arpeggio.
(c) Tempo rubato.
(d) Fugue.

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?
(a) Legato and stacatto.
(b) Devices and mechanisms.
(c) Etude and arpeggio.
(d) Etudes and scales.

3. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Antoine de Kontski.
(c) Theodor Döhler.
(d) William Sterndale Bennett.

4. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Franz Liszt.

5. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."
(a) Scales.
(b) Harmonies.
(c) Sonatas.
(d) Etudes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?

2. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt?

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

4. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

5. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?

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