Music Puzzle
Across
- 1. a type of jazz originating in the 1940's and characterized by complex harmony and rhythms.
- 5. a clef placed on the fourth line of a staff to indicate that the fourth line of the staff represents the F next below middle C
- 7. a person who plays a musical instrument, especially as a profession, or is musically talented
- 8. A clef indicating that the second line from the bottom of a staff represents the pitch of G above middle C
- 9. sad music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. The queen of the blues is Koko Taylor
- 10. a person who writes music
- 12. playing notes that aren't written out for you
- 14. a slow or romantic song
- 16. A song that is an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians. They are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners
Down
- 2. a section in a song that changes from the original verses and choruses. A bridge does not get repeated anywhere else in the song
- 3. A scale with only five notes
- 4. the pattern of stresses or accents that provide the pulse or beat of music
- 6. a musical rhythm that normally accents the weak beat
- 7. a pleasing series of musical notes that form the main part of a song or piece of music
- 11. a treble staff joined to a bass staff by means of a brace, with the treble staff on top
- 13. is a repeating musical figure, like a guitar riff
- 15. a type of music of African-American origin characterized by improvisation and syncopation
- 16. A kind of jazz generally played by a “Big Band” and characterized by a lively rhythm suitable for dancing