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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII through X.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
(a) 1749.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1714.
(d) 1780.

3. 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?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

4. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?
(a) Steinway.
(b) Broadwood and Sons.
(c) Henselt and Sons.
(d) Hammel and Sons.

5. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?
(a) Keys.
(b) Fugues.
(c) Pedaling.
(d) Chords.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?

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

3. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?

4. 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?

5. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?

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