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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXX through XXXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did the pianist Vladimir de Pachmann acquire?
(a) "Chopinzee."
(b) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(c) "The Maestro."
(d) "The Little Giant."

2. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?
(a) Vienna School of Music.
(b) Carnegie Mellon School of Music.
(c) New York University School of Music.
(d) Juilliard School of Music.

3. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?
(a) Sonata.
(b) Chord.
(c) Scale.
(d) Octave.

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

5. What school did Isaac Albeniz attend at age 15?
(a) Julliard School of Music.
(b) Brussels Conservatory.
(c) Metropolitan Opera.
(d) Vienna Conservatory.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?

2. Who played difficult music fast and accurately but died in 1951 at the piano in Carnegie Hall?

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

4. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?

5. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?

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