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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) Classicism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Neo-Classicism.
(d) Romanticism.

2. In what year was Maurizio Pollini born?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1949.

3. What instrument did Harold Bauer play as a child prodigy?
(a) Organ.
(b) Saxophone.
(c) Violin.
(d) Harpsichord.

4. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1798.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who played difficult music fast and accurately but died in 1951 at the piano in Carnegie Hall?

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

3. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?

4. What term refers to an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in the fine arts, at singing or playing a musical instrument?

5. At what age did Isaac Albeniz hide on a ship crossing the Atlantic to Puerto Rico and play in his French musketeer costume for passengers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Harold Bauer? Describe the Bauer's early career.

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

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

4. How are Alfred Brendel and Maurizio Pollini described in Chapter XXXVII, Two Cult Figures?

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

6. When did Glenn Gould retire? What emotional disturbances did he suffer from?

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

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

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

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

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