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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. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Legato.
(c) Contrapuntal style.
(d) Arpeggio.

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

3. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Style galant.
(b) Legato.
(c) Arpeggio.
(d) Fugue.

4. 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) Fugue.
(c) Legato.
(d) Stacatto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?

2. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?

3. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?

4. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?

5. When was Johann Hummel born?

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