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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. Where was Johann Hummel from?
(a) Austria.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Russia.
(d) Hungary.

2. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

3. 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?
(a) Legato and stacatto.
(b) Devices and mechanisms.
(c) Etudes and scales.
(d) Etude and arpeggio.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?

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?

3. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?

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

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?

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