A) Cello and piano B) Violin solo C) Piano solo D) Full orchestra
A) 27 B) 48 C) 12 D) 24
A) Only major keys B) Only minor keys C) All major and minor keys D) Natural keys only
A) Four B) Two C) Five D) Three
A) E♭ minor B) C major C) C♯ minor D) A♭ major
A) 1839 B) 1834 C) 1838 D) 1835
A) C♯ minor B) E♭ minor C) A♭ major D) C major
A) No. 25 B) No. 27 C) No. 24 D) No. 26
A) No. 28 B) No. 27 C) No. 25 D) No. 26
A) 1835 B) 1845 C) 1839 D) 1838
A) 1835 and 1839 B) 1825 and 1828 C) 1830 and 1832 D) 1840 and 1842
A) Vienna B) Paris C) Warsaw D) Mallorca
A) Paris, France B) Berlin, Germany C) Valldemossa, Mallorca D) Rome, Italy
A) To meet Johann Sebastian Bach B) To open a piano factory C) To escape the damp Paris weather D) To attend a music festival
A) Mozart B) Bach C) Schumann D) Beethoven
A) The Well-Tempered Clavier B) The Brandenburg Concertos C) The Goldberg Variations D) The Art of Fugue
A) Busoni B) Kessler C) Sand D) Pleyel
A) Ferruccio Busoni B) Alfred Cortot C) Camille Pleyel D) Joseph Christoph Kessler
A) George Sand B) Anna Yesipova C) Camille Pleyel D) Joseph Christoph Kessler
A) Composer and violinist B) Music critic C) Piano-maker and publisher D) Concert promoter
A) 2,000 francs B) 1,000 francs C) 500 francs D) 5,000 francs
A) The English edition B) The German edition C) The French edition D) The Spanish edition
A) Five years B) Ten years C) Fifteen years D) Twenty years
A) Op. 10 B) Op. 28 C) Op. 31 D) Op. 45
A) To describe an introductory piece B) As a vocal accompaniment C) As a standalone symphony D) As a grand finale
A) As unfinished sketches B) As orchestral arrangements C) As improvisatory warm-ups D) As self-contained units
A) A genre title often associated with improvisatory 'preluding' B) The standard sonata form C) The rules of classical harmony D) The traditional fugue structure
A) In random order B) According to keys separated by rising semitones C) By major keys only D) Using a circle of fifths
A) Rising semitones B) A circle of fifths C) Descending chromatic scale D) Random key ordering
A) The subdominant key B) The dominant key C) Its parallel major D) Its relative minor
A) Twenty-four B) Twelve C) Four D) Two
A) 10 years B) 100 years C) 25 years D) 50 years
A) Ferruccio Busoni B) Anna Yesipova C) Joseph Christoph Kessler D) Alfred Cortot
A) 1926 B) 1915 C) 1876 D) 1839
A) Alfred Cortot B) Anna Yesipova C) Ferruccio Busoni D) Camille Pleyel
A) 1926 B) 1915 C) 1839 D) 1876
A) Magnetic audio tape B) Digital compact discs C) Piano rolls for the Duo-Art label D) Vinyl LP records
A) Anna Yesipova B) George Sand C) Joseph Christoph Kessler D) Alfred Cortot
A) 1876 B) 1926 C) 1915 D) 1939
A) Yes, to half of them B) Only to the minor keys C) No D) Yes, to all of them
A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn B) Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt C) Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn D) Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven
A) 45 bars B) 90 bars C) 24 bars D) 12 bars
A) Number 9 B) Number 7 C) Number 17 D) Number 28
A) 1 minute 25 seconds B) 45 seconds C) 90 seconds D) 12 seconds
A) Jeffrey Kresky B) Anatole Leikin C) Jeremy Nicholas D) Henry Finck
A) Golden dreams B) Opus 28 C) Eagle pinions D) Dies irae
A) Wedding mass B) Easter mass C) Requiem mass D) Christmas mass
A) As a single uninterrupted 90-bar piece B) As individual eagle pinions C) As twenty-four completely random pieces D) Conceived in pairs
A) Death B) Nature C) Romance D) Joy
A) Formal thematic structure B) Pairs of preludes C) Connected motifs D) Hidden quotes
A) Circle of fifths B) Descending diatonic scale C) Random key sequence D) Ascending chromatic order
A) Hummel B) Mozart C) Schubert D) Beethoven
A) 2002 B) 1815 C) 1841 D) 1834
A) Presto con leggierezza B) Allegro maestoso C) Andante spianato D) Devil's Trill
A) 2002 B) 1918 C) 1834 D) 1841
A) Joseph Christoph Kessler B) Jeffrey Kallberg C) Pierre Wolff D) Alain Jacquon
A) Pierre Wolff B) Harold C. Schonberg C) Alain Jacquon D) Jeffrey Kallberg
A) Joseph Christoph Kessler B) Johann Sebastian Bach C) Giuseppe Tartini D) Hummel
A) Newport B) Geneva C) Majorca D) Paris
A) Written in gold ink B) Completely missing C) Neat and precise D) Hastily scrawled
A) 1841 B) 1918 C) 1834 D) July 2002
A) Jeffrey Kallberg B) Harold C. Schonberg C) Pierre Wolff D) Alain Jacquon |