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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A primitive cylinder recording of Brahms was found dated from what year?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1873.

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

3. What musical instrument consists of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air, played by means of one or more keyboards, and capable of producing a wide range of musical effects?
(a) Organ.
(b) Clavichord.
(c) Harpsichord.
(d) Lute.

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

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) Etuge.
(b) Legato.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Stacatto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

2. Where was Johann Hummel from?

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

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

5. What refers to an early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings?

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