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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. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1919.

2. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?
(a) 1754.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1798.

3. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?
(a) Glass.
(b) Silk.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Velvet.

4. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Carl Czerny.

5. 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) Sonata.
(b) Etude.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Legato.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?

3. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?

4. 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?

5. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

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