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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 Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher was known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion in piano playing?
(a) Claude Debussy.
(b) Leopold Godowsky.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Ferruccio Busoni.

2. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1911.

3. 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?
(a) David Tudor.
(b) Vladimir Horowitz.
(c) Arthur Rubinstein.
(d) Claude Debussy.

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

5. What musician debuted in 1906 America and amazed other pianists with his "quasi-glissando" that seemed impossible?
(a) Mischa Levitzski.
(b) Simon Barrere.
(c) Claude Debussy.
(d) Josef Lhevinne.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Isaac Albeniz when he debuted in 1864 Spain?

2. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?

3. In Chapter XXXVI, Bach a la Mode, the author comments on a trend that was unfashionable to play Bach on piano since whose resurgent harpsichord playing?

4. In what year was Alfred Brendel born?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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