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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 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) Legato.
(c) Sonata.
(d) Etude.

2. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1856.

3. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1523.

4. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1815.

5. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?
(a) Buckingham court.
(b) Weimar court.
(c) Liszt court.
(d) Hammel court.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Louis Moreau Gottschalk when he died?

2. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

3. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?

4. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?

5. What musician helped establish the German school and played clearly, analytically, and precisely with authority?

Short Essay Questions

1. What historical period is related by the author in Chapter VI, In the Interim? Who instigated this transition?

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

3. What four pianists are described in Chapter VII, From Ireland to Bohemia? Who is noted as the best of the group?

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

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

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

7. When and where did piano playing arise in history? What instruments led up to the development of the piano?

8. What relationship did Chopin share with Franz Liszt? How did they meet?

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

10. Who was Clara Schumann? What was her musical contribution?

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