Ch. 39 Music Quiz

"Tempo rubato" translates as

After his conservatory studies, Chopin spent most of his productive career in

Chopin paid homage to his Eastern European ancestry by composing

Chopin taught his students to play rubato by keeping the right hand steady, while the music in the left hand hesitated and hurried forward.

Factory production of the nineteenth-century piano meant

What was Chopin's native land?

Which are technical advances made to the piano during the nineteenth century?

The polonaise represents musical nationalism because it is a

Which statement about the nineteenth-century piano is NOT true?

Works with fanciful titles are _______ pieces.

The instrumental equivalent to the song was the

The most valued aspect(s) of the nineteenth-century piano

The musical elements that contribute to the "military splendor" in Chopin's Polonaise include all of the following EXCEPT:

What describes the character of Chopin's Military Polonaise?

Which American piano maker took the top award at the Paris Exhibition of 1887?

Which city was the center of the new Romanticism of the 1830s?

Which composer is credited with originating the modern piano style?

Which describes Chopin's compositional output?

Which describes the character of Chopin's nocturnes?

Which does NOT apply to Chopin's compositional style?

Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin's compositional output?

Which is NOT a characteristic of a polonaise?

Which statement regarding the piano in nineteenth-century culture is NOT true?

Who was George Sand?

_______ praised Chopin as a "poet" of the piano.