Western Music History Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. The biggest genre of music in the 1700s
  2. 6. Comedic opera
  3. 7. How many instruments in a string quartet
  4. 9. a hired audience
  5. 10. Music performed in churches
  6. 12. Male singers who had surgery to keep their voices high
  7. 13. Lyrics in an opera
  8. 14. Practice exercise that focus on technical challenges.
  9. 17. superhuman music skills
  10. 19. to decorate music
  11. 21. Serious Opera
  12. 22. the first "pop-star"
  13. 23. Music played within the home, typically by women
  14. 25. A collection of dance music
  15. 26. The pushing and pulling of time/tempo
  16. 27. A reoccurring theme
Down
  1. 1. Small concert music played on Sundays
  2. 3. child prodigy
  3. 4. This composer never left Germany
  4. 5. Music that symbolizes death
  5. 6. deaf composer
  6. 8. recreation of greek tragedy
  7. 11. English vocal music
  8. 15. father of the classical symphony
  9. 16. Hired musicians by cities to play music in the streets
  10. 18. Music that has a deeper meaning or tells a story
  11. 20. Main instrument in the Baroque era
  12. 24. Music for the only purpose of music