2. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."
(a) Sonatas.
(b) Scales.
(c) Etudes.
(d) Harmonies.

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

4. When was Frédéric Chopin born?
(a) 1786.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1810.

5. 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) Etudes and scales.
(b) Etude and arpeggio.
(c) Devices and mechanisms.
(d) Legato and stacatto.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?

4. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?

5. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

(see the answer key)

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