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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 late nineteenth and twentieth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist reverts back to playing with strict adherence to composers' written musical note?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Neo-Classicism.

2. In what year did Josef Hofmann play 255 different works in twenty-one concerts without repeating any?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1938.

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

4. What is the name of a performance hall in New York City where Paderewski made a debut in 1891 on his tour for the Steinway piano company?
(a) New York Philharmonic.
(b) Vienna Philharmonic.
(c) Metropolitan Opera.
(d) Carnegie Hall.

5. Who sought ideal music he could play and compose and eventually settled on Mozart's twelve piano concertos at farewell concerts in 1922?
(a) Ferruccio Busoni.
(b) Claudio Arrau.
(c) Claude Debussy.
(d) Franz Liszt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Josef Hofmann make his Hamburg debut?

2. With whom did Arthur Rubinstein share an uneasy friendship but recognized each other's strengths?

3. What school did Isaac Albeniz attend at age 15?

4. At what age did Isaac Albebiz catch a train to a casino where he played piano for guests and gamblers?

5. What term refers to any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on music?

2. Who were the forerunners of modernism? How did modernism differ from romanticism?

3. How did Vladimir Horowitz's piano career begin? What was the public reaction to the pianist?

4. Who was Isaac Albeniz? Describe his early career.

5. What example is given to illustrate modernist principles with Josef Hofmann?

6. What Polish pianists are described in Chapter XXIV, The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and Others in addition to de Pachmann and Godowsky?

7. Who represented Schnabel's German/Austrian legacy in music? How is the German school described?

8. What advances in piano technique are described in Chapter XXXI, New Philosophies, New Styles? Where did they originate?

9. What female students of Liszt are described in Chapter XXV, The Ladies?

10. How is the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff described by the author? Where was Sergei Rachmaninoff from?

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