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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. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?
(a) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(b) Sergei Rachmaninoff.
(c) Paderewski.
(d) Josef Lhevinne.

2. What term refers to an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in the fine arts, at singing or playing a musical instrument?
(a) Virtuoso.
(b) Mentor.
(c) Maestro.
(d) Master.

3. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?
(a) Australia.
(b) Russia.
(c) Germany.
(d) Canada.

4. 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?
(a)
(b)
(c) Percussion.
(d)

5. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1799.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did the musician Mischa Levitzski die?

2. Who was world exponent of ultra-avant-garde pianism because he could read the new printed notes that required playing simultaneously piano keyboard, sounding board and strings, tape recorder and kazoo?

3. What Russian composer and pianist initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin?

4. What album by Glenn Gould is described as combining personality, ideas, bouncing rhythm and fast tempos?

5. What nickname did the pianist Vladimir de Pachmann acquire?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?

3. How does the author describe the correlation between pianists and composers in Chapter XXVI, Composers at the Keyboard?

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

5. Compare the style and works of Busoni and Godowsky. How does the author relate their philosophical differences?

6. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?

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

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

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

10. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut? What toll did it take on him?

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