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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVI and XXVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) Muzio Clementi.
(c) John Field.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

2. 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) Etuge.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Legato.

3. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?
(a) "The Piano God."
(b) "The Little Giant."
(c) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(d) "Chopinzee."

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) Romanticism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Modernism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?

2. What Russian composer and pianist initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin?

3. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk return to the United States to give a New York concert?

4. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?

5. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?

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