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Romantic Piano Music

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1. The Romantic piano had:

felt covered hammers
metal plates and braces
seven octaves
all of the above

2. At the beginning of the 19th century there were two major schools of piano playing. One emphasized clarity of texture and fluency of technique. It was led by J. N. Hummel, a pupil of:

Beethoven
Salieri
Mozart
Clementi

3. Clementi wrote a famous collection of etudes that included contrapuntal and virtuosic studies. Debussy later referred to this work in the title of one of his piano pieces. Clementi's work is

24 Etudes
Gradus ad Parnassum
The Children's Corner
Ludus tonalis

4. John Field's nocturnes served as a model for the more famous nocturnes of

Chopin
Schubert
Mendelssohn
Schumann

5. All of the following were 19th century piano virtuosi except:

Hans von Buelow
Anton Rubinstein
Nicolo Paganini
Louis Moreau Gottschalk

6. Romantic piano music was strongly influenced by 19th century opera.

True
False

7. An important school of Bohemian pianists, strongly influenced by Mozart, was active in the early 19th century. Among these Czech musicians were all of the following except:

Dvorak
Tomasek
Vorisek
Dussek

8. In the 19th century piano works tended to be either Romantic miniatures or large, expansive pieces. All of the following are examples of miniatures except:

Schubert's Moments musicaux
Schumann's Wanderer Fantasie
Mendelssohn's Songs without Words
Chopin's Etudes Op. 10

9. Schubert wrote eleven complete sonatas. All of the following statements are true except:

He sometimes used three keys in the exposition instead of two.
He was strongly influenced by Haydn and Mozart.
His focus was on lyrical melodies.
His primary influence was Beethoven.

10. The Romantic composer who was very devoted to the works of J. S. Bach and who wrote three organ preludes and six organ sontatas is:

Schubert
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Carl Maria von Weber

11. The Romantic composer was who also editor of the periodical Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik was

Mendelssohn
Schumann
Berlioz
Tausig

12. Florestan, Eusebius, and Raro are characters from Schumann's:

Carnaval
Scenes from Childhood
Papillons
Kreisleriana

13. Chopin was an avid nationalist who wrote piano pieces influenced by folk dances from his native

France
Austria
Bohemia
Poland

14. Polonaises are associated with the peasantry and mazurkas with the nobility.

True
False

15. The ___________are to Chopin as The Well-Tempered Clavier is to Bach.

preludes
etudes
scherzos
ballades

16. Chopin's Opp. 10 and 25 focus on many aspects of virtuosic piano technique. They are the

scherzos
ballades
waltzes
etudes

17. _______is to the piano as Paganini is to the violin

Chopin
Schubert
Gottschalk
Liszt

18. A Romantic composer who wrote tone poems from literary models was:

Chopin
von Weber
Brahms
Liszt

19. Liszt wrote piano rhapsodies inspired by his native

Bohemia
Poland
Hungary
Slovakia

20. The word "Romany" refers to

Romanians
Hungarians
Italians
gypsies

21. In___________Liszt wrote a piece on a Classic model that works out four themes spread out over a large work in three major sections.

Totentanz
Mazeppa
Fantasy on Hungarian Themes
Sonata in B minor

22. All of the following are characteristics of Brahms' piano works except:

full sonority
orchestral concept
cross rhythms
dominant soprano melody