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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. Who played melody with his thumbs in the middle of the keyboard while his fingers played arpeggios up and down the keyboard?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Bertold Hummel.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Sigismond Thalberg.

2. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(d) Carl Czerny.

3. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?
(a) Classicism.
(b) Style galant.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Modernism.

4. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?
(a) Chord.
(b) Scale.
(c) Octave.
(d) Sonata.

5. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1869.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?

3. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?

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

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

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