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Romantic Piano Music
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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.
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