Exploratory Music

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Across
  1. 2. Before modern times, shaman or medicine men were given this instrument to play.
  2. 8. Thelonious Monk once described this instrument as its notes can do no wrong.
  3. 9. Generally recognized as the first rap single called Rappers Delight
  4. 10. The name of the country where the oldest song we know about was discovered.
  5. 11. The name of an artist who wrote a famous song while waiting for risotto in a Venice restaurant
  6. 12. Known for making America's first blue yodel. my first name is
  7. 14. the first female artist to have her first six studio albums debut at number one.
  8. 15. This blues artist helped make Maxwell House Coffee famous through a song. His name is?
  9. 16. The oldest carbon dated instrument is about 42,000 years old. It is called a...
  10. 18. how old Michael Jackson was for his first performance
  11. 19. Blind Willie McTell is among some of the most famed American roots blues musicians and recorded more than 120 titles in fourteen sessions. Blind Willie McTell could read and write music in code, this code is known as what?
Down
  1. 1. Prince made this song as an allegory dedicated to a Jimi Hendrix song.
  2. 3. In 1976 The Band hosted it's farewell concert with many other artists. This concert was hosted on what holiday?
  3. 4. The last name of a Baroque Composer whose influence was immense in the 1600s and wasn't fully realized until 1946.
  4. 5. This artist hasn’t released music in a long time but still is one of the greatest of all time. In 2016 they sold more CDs than Beyonce and Adele. Who are they?
  5. 6. A nickname for the instrument normally called a harmonica by early american musicians.
  6. 7. I claimed to name the blues. You may know me by a shorter version of saying mother or stormy weather.
  7. 13. This rapper released their latest album to only be heard in the Brooklyn Museum
  8. 17. I was inducted into rock n roll hall of fame in 1987. My initials are AF and you may know the name of my most famous song about how to treat others.