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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 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) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Carl Czerny.

2. When was Johann Hummel born?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1902.

3. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Felix Mendelssohn.

4. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?
(a) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Carl Czerny.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?

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