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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. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Sigismond Thalberg.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

2. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Bertold Hummel.
(d) Franz Liszt.

3. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?
(a) Classicism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Style galant.
(d) Romanticism.

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

5. Who is Anton Rubinstein described as looking and playing like?
(a) Chopin.
(b) Bach.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Mozart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?

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

5. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?

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