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

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?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Cubism.
(d) Romanticism.

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) Etude and arpeggio.
(c) Etudes and scales.
(d) Devices and mechanisms.

4. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1798.

5. 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) Clavichord.
(b) Organ.
(c) Harpsichord.
(d) Lute.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the piano invented?

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

3. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?

4. A primitive cylinder recording of Brahms was found dated from what year?

5. 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?

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