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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 is the term used to describe an elegant drawing room used in formal receptions that is different in layout and size than a public hall or auditorium used for concerts?
(a) Studio.
(b) Stage.
(c) Salon.
(d) Concerto.

2. 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.

3. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Tempo rubato.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Legato.

4. What musician played like a skilled de Pachmann, according to the author?
(a) Moriz Rosenthal.
(b) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Percy Grainger.

5. Who credited Nicholas Rubinstein as his chief teacher and said Liszt was too old to teach him?
(a) Emil von Sauer.
(b) Alfred Grunfeld.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Saint-Saens.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

3. In what year was the piano invented?

4. Under whom did Leopold Godowsky study for three years?

5. What is the name of a term used to describe a piano playing style that was a brilliant romanticist musical approach that transcended technique and was made famous by Franz Liszt and others?

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