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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 Russian pianist played Chopin's Polonaise for an amazed critic, George Bernard Shaw?

2. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?

3. At what age did Isaac Albebiz catch a train to a casino where he played piano for guests and gamblers?

4. What refers to an instrumental musical composition usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill?

5. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the correlation between pianists and composers in Chapter XXVI, Composers at the Keyboard?

2. Who represented Schnabel's German/Austrian legacy in music? How is the German school described?

3. Who was Isaac Albeniz? Describe his early career.

4. What was the critical and public response to Busoni's performances?

5. How are Alfred Brendel and Maurizio Pollini described in Chapter XXXVII, Two Cult Figures?

6. What American pianists does Schonberg describe in Chapter XXXVIII, Made in America?

7. What advances in piano technique are described in Chapter XXXI, New Philosophies, New Styles? Where did they originate?

8. Compare the style and works of Busoni and Godowsky. How does the author relate their philosophical differences?

9. Describe Harold Bauer's American debut. What is noted of the pianist's style?

10. What was the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on music?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the biographies and works of Johann Hummel and Ignaz Moscheles. What does "bravura" style mean and who was known for it?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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