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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."
2. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?
3. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?
4. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
5. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Louis Moreau Gottschalk and how did he represent American ideals in musical composition?
2. How are Franz Liszt's fans described in Chapter X, Thunder, Lightning, Mesmerism, Sex? How did Liszt react to the public?
3. What musicians are described in Chapter XVI, Tyrant and Intellectual? Who established the German school?
4. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt? How did they differ in their performance styles?
5. Describe the early life and career of Mozart. How old was he when he first performed musically?
6. What students of Leschetizky are described in Chapter XXIII, Some of the Leschetizky Group?
7. Who were the salonists described in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?
8. What was the nickname of Sigismond Thalberg? Why?
9. What relationship did Chopin share with Franz Liszt? How did they meet?
10. What eccentricities does the author describe of the salonists in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When and where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born? Where did he rise to fame? When did he make his American debut and where?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the pianist and conductor Hans von Bulow. How did he influence the German school of thought? What characteristics does the author make of the German style?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the piano style and techniques of Felix Mendelssohn. What school of music did Felix Mendelssohn later form? How did this influence music?
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