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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XX through XXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?
(a) Stacatto.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Legato.
(d) Etuge.

2. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

3. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) John Field.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1745.
(d) 1810.

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?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?

2. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?

3. In what decade did America discourage pupils away from European schools like Paris Conservatoire?

4. 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?

5. In what year was the piano invented?

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