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

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

4. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?
(a) 100.
(b) 150.
(c) 200.
(d) 50.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

2. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?

3. 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?

4. When was Johann Hummel born?

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

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