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

2. 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?
(a) Lute.
(b) Clavichord.
(c) Harpsichord.
(d) Organ.

3. Where was Chopin born?
(a) Vienna, Austria.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Krakaw, Poland.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

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

5. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?
(a) Paris.
(b) Vienna.
(c) London.
(d) Oslo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?

2. 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?

3. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?

4. 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?

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

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