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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. Harold Bauer credited his piano interest to what dancer?
(a) Mary Whipley.
(b) Isadora Duncan.
(c) Maria Callais.
(d) Sarah Earnheart.

2. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?
(a) Sergei Rachmaninoff's.
(b) Josef Lhevinne's.
(c) Paderewski's.
(d) Isadora Duncan's.

3. Where was Josef Hofmann born?
(a) Poland.
(b) The United States.
(c) Austria.
(d) Great Britain.

4. Who was described by the author as an incomparable pianist who added new theories and ideas about pedaling and sonority with new ideas of figuration and layout?
(a) Alexander Scriabin.
(b) Claudio Arrau.
(c) Claude Debussy.
(d) Franz Liszt.

5. Under whom did Leopold Godowsky study for three years?
(a) Moriz Rosenthal.
(b) Saint-Saens.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Percy Grainger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose powerful opening made orchestra conductor Eugen Pabst leave the podium to watch his hands and the "audience went wild"?

3. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?

4. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?

5. What Australian pianist hiked to concerts with a knapsack and was one of the most gifted pianists of the 20th century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?

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

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

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

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

9. What advances and contributions did Glenn Gould bring to musical presentation?

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

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