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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV through XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?
(a) William Sterndale Bennett.
(b) Theodor Döhler.
(c) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(d) Antoine de Kontski.

2. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?
(a) Stacatto.
(b) Etuge.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Legato.

3. 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?
(a) Realism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Romanticism.

4. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk return to the United States to give a New York concert?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1853.

5. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Style galant.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Legato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which student of Franz Liszt is described as having musical skill that was mostly telling tales published in "Music Study in Germany"?

2. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?

3. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?

4. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?

5. Who was Liszt's favorite female student?

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