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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. Where was Anton Rubinstein born?
(a) Russia.
(b) Czechoslavakia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Austria.

2. 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) Legato.
(c) Contrapuntal style.
(d) Fugue.

3. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?
(a) Clara Schumann.
(b) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(c) William Sterndale Bennett.
(d) Felix Mendelssohn.

4. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?
(a) Realism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Romanticism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?

2. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?

3. Paris Conservatoire rejected what thirteen-year old for being "too savage"?

4. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?

5. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?

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