Baroque Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. showpiece for vocal soloist in opera/oratorio
  2. 4. composer of Messiah; conductor, composer, impresario
  3. 5. early Baroque composer of operatic masterpieces such as Orfeo
  4. 6. greatest English composer of all-time; Dido and Aeneas
  5. 8. the main theme of a fugue
  6. 9. polyphonic composition whose main theme is the subject
  7. 11. most characteristic feature of Baroque music; type of accompaniment
  8. 13. German Lutheran choirmaster, organist, master of the fugue
  9. 15. similar to opera but no costumes, scenery, acting
  10. 16. music composed as it is performed; ad lib
Down
  1. 1. virtuoso violinist who composed The Four Seasons
  2. 3. alternating tutti/solo sections
  3. 7. imitates speech rhythms and fluctuations
  4. 10. all players play or all singers sing
  5. 12. staged dramatic genre w/ orchestra, soloists, chorus
  6. 14. most important vocal category in Baroque opera