MUSIC HISTORY AND MUSICAL TERMS
Across
- 2. Gradual changes in volume, specifically the frequent use of crescendo (getting louder) and decrescendo/diminuendo (getting softer.
- 4. A short, lyric art song for voice and piano that sets a poetic text, highly popularized by Franz Schubert.
- 5. Music that completely abandons a central key or tonal center, treating all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale equally
- 8. An instrument introduced in the classical period.
- 9. a dramatic theatrical performance where the entire story is told through music and singing, rather than spoken dialogue
- 12. Loud and strong.
- 13. The place Mozart was born.
- 15. German word for a "wonder child"
- 16. A return to the balanced, orderly forms of the 18th century (Classical/Baroque) but with modern, dissonant harmonies
- 18. A compositional method where all 12 chromatic notes are arranged into a specific, ordered "tone row". The row can be played forward, backward, inverted, or retrograded
Down
- 1. A "leading motive". Pioneered by Richard Wagner,
- 3. Period known as the age of enlightment.
- 6. Middle name of Mozart.
- 7. Honorary title that Mozart was given at the age of 13.
- 10. The speed or pace of a musical piece.
- 11. Solo vocal piece common in his operas.
- 14. At a walking pace.
- 17. Second name of one of the piano masters in the 19th century.