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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 school promoted musicianship, severity, strength and solidity rather than charm and sensuality?
(a) The Russian school.
(b) The French school.
(c) The German school.
(d) The British school.

2. Vladimir de Pachmann dressed in a smelly, old gown he claimed was whose?
(a) Chopin's.
(b) Bach's.
(c) Emil von Sauer's.
(d) Beethoven's.

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

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

5. Who codified twentieth century theory of technique beyond Chopin's ideas?
(a) David Tudor.
(b) Arthur Rubinstein.
(c) Vladimir Horowitz.
(d) Claude Debussy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Wilhelm Backhaus when he made his first concert tour?

2. At what age did Glenn Gould begin playing piano?

3. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?

4. Where was Josef Hofmann born?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What relationship did Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz share? How did they differ in performance styles?

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

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

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

5. What American pianists does Schonberg describe in Chapter XXXVIII, Made in America?

6. What was the critical and public response to Busoni's performances?

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

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

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

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

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