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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XX through XXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who invented the piano?
(a) John Field.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Muzio Clementi.
(d) Bartolomeo Cristofori.

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) Fugue.
(b) Stacatto.
(c) Legato.
(d) Etuge.

3. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Contrapuntal style.
(b) Legato.
(c) Arpeggio.
(d) Fugue.

4. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Carl Czerny.

5. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?
(a) Broadwood and Sons.
(b) Steinway.
(c) Henselt and Sons.
(d) Hammel and Sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?

2. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?

3. Where was Johann Hummel from?

4. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?

5. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

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