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What does Chopin's Op. 63 No. 3 have that is rare?
triple time
What time are Chopin's polonaises written in?
Elsner
Chopin's ability to create an advanced polonasises surpassed even two of his teachers, Zywny and who?
martial
Chopin's polonaise often have what kind of rhythm in their melodies?
formidable
Chopin's polonaises needed what kind of playing technique?
21
How many nocturnes did Chopin compose?
agitated expression
What is it about the middle of Chopin's nocturnes that increases their drama?
Field
Chopin's nocturnes were more structured than who?
1833
What year did Chopin meet Field?
nocturnes
Which type of Chopin's compositons were difficult for perfomers due to their middle sections?
études
What pieces of his did Chopin use to teach his technique?
straightforward ternary
What form are most of Chopin's études in?
études
Chopin often taught his piano technique using what form of music he wrote?
The Well-Tempered Clavier
What piece of Bach's did Chopin take inspiration for his preludes?
Kenneth Hamilton
Who suggested that Chopin's preludes were not intended to be played as a group?
The preludes
What was described as "the beginning of studies" by Schumann?
J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier
What inspired Chopin for his preludes?
generic preludes to others of his pieces
Kenneth Hamilton suggests that the preludes may not have been meant as a group but rather as what?
Ferruccio Busoni
Who did a recording where Étude Op. 10 No. 5. follows relude Op. 28 No. 7?
four
How many movements are No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58 in?
Kornel Michałowski and Jim Samson
What two people claimed that Op 58 was "worthy of Brahms"?
four
How many movements are in No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58?
The last movement
Which movement was found lacking in musicality by Schumann?
Op. 58
According to music historians, which sonata is similar to German tradition and worthy of Brahms?
Claude Debussy
Chopin's chord progressions are similar in style to what other composer?
harmonic innovations
What likely arose due to Chopin's technique with keyboards?
Temperley
Who wrote about Chopin's "novel harmonic effects"?
independent finger technique
What was Chopin's style based upon?
Léon Escudier
Who wrote about a Chopin 1841 recital?
his Projet de méthode
What writing of Chopin talks about everything about piano playing has to do with proper fingering?
Karol Szymanowski
According to J. Barrie Jones who was the only true successor to Chopin?
national modes and idioms
Many people were considered influenced by Chopin's what?
Nikolai Zverev
Who was Alexander Scriabin's teacher?
Karol Szymanowski
Who was Chopin's worthy successor according to Jones?
Alexander Scriabin
Who was devoted to the music of Chopin?
Nikolai Zverev
Who was Alexander Scriabin's teacher?
Jonathan Bellman
Who wrote that the current large concert style conflicts with Chopin's preference of intimate performances?
rigid procedures
What did Chopin tend to avoid?
"always crescendo to a high note"
What has been falsely credited to Chopin?
hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art
What did Chopin tell a student is given up in concerts?
Berlioz
Who wrote about Chopin's "chromatic embroidery"?
Hiller
Who wrote that Chopin's music, when played by him, became a "colorful wreath of flowers"?
rubato
Chopin's compositions are often played with what?
the practice in performance of disregarding strict time
What does rubato mean?
rubato
In Chopin's music where strict timing is disregarded, what is it called?
mazurkas
What type of Chopin's music had the most disregard for strict timing according to Charles Rosen?
Friederike Müller
According to who did Chopin demand strictly sticking with rhythm?
Friederike Müller
Which student said Chopin made sure his students knew his legato, cantabile style of playing?
rhythm.
According to Friederike Müller, Chopin insisted his students have the strictest adherence to what?
sense of nationalism
Chopin was noted as introducing music to what?
1836
What year did Schumann review Chopin's piano concertos?
Poland
In his review Schumann made note of Chopin's emotions for what?
the failure of the November 1830
Why did Schumann say the Poles were in mourning?
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
A biography on Chopin released under Franz Liszt's name was likely written by who?
polonaises
Chopin was able to bring about a new sense of nationalism with his music because of his mazurkas and what?
Schumann
Who wrote a glowing review of Chopin's love for his country through his music in 1836?
flowers
Schumann described Chopin's music as cannons buried in what?
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Though Franz Liszt is credited with Chopin's 1863 biography, who probably actually wrote it?
Barbara Milewski
Who said that Chopin's familiarity with Polish music was more "urbanised" than true folk music?
Michał Kleofas Ogiński and Franciszek Lessel
George Golos references what two musicians when claiming Chopin's nationalism was overrated?
Richard Taruskin
Who said Chopin's works were modeled after Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Field?
intuitive
William Atwood suggested that Chopin's music wasn't purposely patriotic but what?
freedom
A modern commentator, William Atwood, feels Poles not only sought solace in Chopin's music but also found them a source of strength as they continued to fight for what?
Europe and the New World
Where were Poles scattered to?
Byronic flamboyance
Arthur Hutchings stated that Chopin's lack of what made him special?
Liszt and Henri Herz
Who were two of Chopin's contemporaries?
Paris
What place was considered lucky for Chopin to have arrived at considering how much he charged for piano lessons?
Arthur Hutchings
Who said Chopin was unlike his romantic contemporaries Liszt and Henri Herz?
Carnaval
In what suite did Schumann name a work for Chopin?
Ballade No. 2 in F major
What piece of Chopin's work was dedicated to Schumann?
six
How many of Chopin's Polish songs did Liszt transliterate for piano?
Alkan
With who did Chopin feel comfortable speaking of folk music with?
qualities as a pianist and composer
What was recognized about Chopin from his musical peers?
Carnaval
What Schumann suite contained the name of a piece Schumann named for Chopin?
Ballade No. 2 in F major
What piece did Chopin dedicate to Schumann?
Liszt
What other musician shows to have elements of Chopin in his work?
Debussy
Who dedicated his 1915 piano Études to Chopin?
Jacques Durand
For what publisher to Debussy edit Chopin's music for?
Raoul Koczalski
Who was a student of Chopin's former students and actually recorded some Chopin music?
Chopin's
What music did Debussy play a lot at the Paris Conservatoire?
Mainland Chinese scholars
Who were Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain?
horse trade
What important trade did the Ming Dynasty have with Tibet?
1402–1424
During what years did the Mongol leader Kublai Khan rule?
Deshin Shekpa
Who did the Yongle Emperor try to build a religious alliance with?
the Karma Kagyu school
Deshin Shekpa was the head of what school?
Nepal
The Tibetan leaders had a diplomacy with what neighboring state?
armed resistance
What did the Tibetans use against Ming forays?
the Mongols
Who were the armed protectors for the Gelug Dalai Lama?
the Ganden Phodrang
Which regime did Güshi Khan help establish?
1578
When was the Mongol-Tibetan alliance started?
the 9th century
In what century did the Tibetan Empire fall?
The Yarlung rulers of Tibet
Who signed multiple peace treaties with the Tang?
the borders between Tibet and China
What did one of the treaties between the Tang and Tibet help fix?
Tibet
Who was the Tangs biggest rival?
821
What year did Tang and Tibet sign a treaty to fix the borders?
907–960
When did the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of China take place?
960–1279
When did the Song dynasty take place?
Song dynasty
What dynasty was concerned with countering northern enemy states?
the Khitan
Who ruled the Liao dynasty?
Jurchen
Who ruled the Jin dynasty?