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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. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1523.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1790.

2. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Classicism.

3. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?
(a) 1740.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1750.

4. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) John Field.
(c) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(d) Muzio Clementi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?

2. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?

3. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?

4. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?

5. 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?

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