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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. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?

2. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?

3. What celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?

4. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?

5. What romantic Polish pianist born in 1830 spent most of his life after 1878 in Vienna?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who held the first solo concerts of the romantic period? What were they like?

2. What students of Leschetizky are described in Chapter XXIII, Some of the Leschetizky Group?

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

4. Who was Clara Schumann? What was her musical contribution?

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

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

7. What eccentricities does the author describe of the salonists in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?

8. What musicians are described in Chapter XVI, Tyrant and Intellectual? Who established the German school?

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

10. When and where did piano playing arise in history? What instruments led up to the development of the piano?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the biography and works of Ludwig van Beethoven. What advancements was Beethoven responsible for in the style and technique of piano and composition?

Essay Topic 3

Define and describe the terms "fugue," "legato," and "style galant." How did these stylistic elements contribute to the changes from classicism to romanticism?

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