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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. Where was Chopin born?
2. 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?
3. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?
4. What German composer and pianist is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music?
5. Paderewski did not receive systematic instruction until what age?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe Mozart's playing style in Chapter II, It Should Flow Like Oil?
2. Who are the musicians described in Chapter XIII, Two Sensitive Ones? When did they live?
3. What four pianists are described in Chapter VII, From Ireland to Bohemia? Who is noted as the best of the group?
4. What was the nickname of Sigismond Thalberg? Why?
5. Who was Saint-Saens? What were his musical contributions?
6. Describe the differences in piano manufacturing and their impact on piano music in Chapter VI, In the Interim. Where were pianos made?
7. Who were the great models of piano and composition teaching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How was their style defined?
8. What eccentricities does the author describe of the salonists in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?
9. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt? How did they differ in their performance styles?
10. What formal training did Ignacy Jan Paderewski receive and where?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the influences of Friedrich Chopin on romanticism, piano technique, and style. When was Chopin born? When did he debut? When did he die?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Compare the pianists John Field and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. When and where was each born? What advancements did the pianist or composer make in music?
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