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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. Paderewski did not receive systematic instruction until what age?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 13.
(d) 16.

2. What term is used to identify a type of music that is a singing, nuanced, fluffy, polite, and melodic approach developed after Bach's death when the heavy contrapuntal style used in the tempestuous fugue fell into disfavor?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Etude.
(c) Sonata.
(d) Legato.

3. Where was Chopin born?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Vienna, Austria.
(d) Krakaw, Poland.

4. 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) Romanticism.
(d) Cubism.

5. What Polish student of Franz Liszt amazed fellow pianists with his speed, power and endurance?
(a) Saint-Saens.
(b) Emil von Sauer.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Moriz Rosenthal.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

2. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?

3. What student of Franz Liszt was described as having touch that was "soft as velvet and as strong as a man's"?

4. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?

5. Who played melody with his thumbs in the middle of the keyboard while his fingers played arpeggios up and down the keyboard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What musical figure is described in Chapter XXI, An Archangel Come Down to Earth? Whose student was he?

2. What was the nickname of Sigismond Thalberg? Why?

3. Who was Theodor Leschetizky? Where was he from and what contributions did he make to music?

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

6. When did the romantic upheaval take place in music? Who were its forerunners?

7. How does the author describe changes in playing techniques in Chapter VI, In the Interim? Who initiated these adaptations?

8. Describe the differences in piano manufacturing and their impact on piano music in Chapter VI, In the Interim. Where were pianos made?

9. How did musical styles evolve after the death of Bach? What is the definition of "contrapuntal style"?

10. When did John Field begin training on the piano? With whom?

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