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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI through XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was William Sterndale Bennett from?
(a) France.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Canada.
(d) The United States.

2. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1919.

3. 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) Realism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Classicism.

4. Who invented the piano?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(d) John Field.

5. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Etuge.
(c) Stacatto.
(d) Legato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?

2. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?

3. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?

4. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?

5. 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?

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