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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. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

2. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?

3. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

4. How much money did Ignacy Jan Paderewski earn for three months playing in the United States?

5. What is the term used to describe an elegant drawing room used in formal receptions that is different in layout and size than a public hall or auditorium used for concerts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Thalsberg's career like? When did he retire?

2. What historical period is related by the author in Chapter VI, In the Interim? Who instigated this transition?

3. What relationship did Chopin share with Franz Liszt? How did they meet?

4. Who was Louis Moreau Gottschalk and how did he represent American ideals in musical composition?

5. When did the romantic upheaval take place in music? Who were its forerunners?

6. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt? How did they differ in their performance styles?

7. Who are the musicians described in Chapter XIII, Two Sensitive Ones? When did they live?

8. Who were the great models of piano and composition teaching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How was their style defined?

9. How does the author describe Mozart's playing style in Chapter II, It Should Flow Like Oil?

10. Who were the salonists described in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the styles, philosophies, and techniques of Anton Rubinstein and his student Josef Hofmann. What style was Hofmann a forerunner of?

Essay Topic 2

How did the processes of piano manufacturing change in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? What impact did this have on the piano's popularity?

Essay Topic 3

When did the romantic upheaval take place in music and where? What world events led to the break with classicism? How is this transition defined in other art forms?

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