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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 a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?
(a) Etuge.
(b) Stacatto.
(c) Legato.
(d) Fugue.

2. Where was Anton Rubinstein born?
(a) Czechoslavakia.
(b) Poland.
(c) Russia.
(d) Austria.

3. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1919.

4. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Legato.
(c) Arpeggio.
(d) Style galant.

5. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Vienna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?

2. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?

3. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?

4. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?

5. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What students of Leschetizky are described in Chapter XXIII, Some of the Leschetizky Group?

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

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

7. How are Franz Liszt's fans described in Chapter X, Thunder, Lightning, Mesmerism, Sex? How did Liszt react to the public?

8. Describe the early life and career of Mozart. How old was he when he first performed musically?

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

10. How did Chopin feel about his contemporaries? Who did he consider the only two great composers?

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