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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who married composer Robert Schumann, wore black in his memory, and was the authority on his music?
(a) Mary Schumann.
(b) Louise Schumann.
(c) Andrea Schumann.
(d) Clara Schumann.

3. 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?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Cubism.
(d) Romanticism.

4. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1800.

5. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?
(a) Theodor Döhler.
(b) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(c) William Sterndale Bennett.
(d) Antoine de Kontski.

Short Answer Questions

1. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?

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

3. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?

4. What refers to an early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings?

5. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What female students of Franz Liszt are described in Chapter XVII, The Children of the Abbe? What were their attributes?

2. How does the author describe the transition to concert hall? Who was among the first concert hall pianists?

3. Which of Liszt's students was considered his equal? How did students seek Liszt to teach them?

4. What does the author write about the style of early musical composition on the piano in the Preface? How did advancements take place?

5. What eccentricities does the author describe of the salonists in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?

6. Who was Eugene d'Albert? What does the author write of his musical contributions?

7. How does the author describe Mozart's playing style in Chapter II, It Should Flow Like Oil?

8. How was Chopin related to romanticism? How does the author describe Chopin's appearance?

9. Who were the great models of piano and composition teaching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How was their style defined?

10. What formal training did Ignacy Jan Paderewski receive and where?

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