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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV through XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Contrapuntal style.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Legato.

2. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1523.
(b) 1654.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1790.

3. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Vienna.
(d) New Orleans.

5. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1856.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

2. 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?

3. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?

4. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?

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

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