Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical Terms

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Across
  1. 2. music A music genre that has to do with religious subject matter.
  2. 4. consort An ensemble of instruments belonging to the same instrument family.
  3. 5. Containing multiple lines that move independently of one another.
  4. 6. A specific religious text. Used only in the Catholic Church.
  5. 7. Unstaged opera that has a religious subject.
  6. 12. music A music genre that has to do with popular or "normal" subject matter.
  7. 15. The more serious operas of the Baroque era were replaced by comic operas, featuring "real" people.
  8. 16. Fancy little musical alterations that were expected to be used by musicians.
  9. 17. quartet Two violins, one viola, and one cello.
  10. 18. consort An ensemble of instruments belonging to different instrument families.
Down
  1. 1. Shorter choral works that could be sung by a church congregation.
  2. 3. grosso A work for a solo instrument with orchestra accompaniment.
  3. 6. Sacred works that did not follow a specific text. Used primarily in the Catholic Church.
  4. 8. Work for orchestra.
  5. 9. A work based on different types of dances; can be for any kind of instrumentation.
  6. 10. Songs that relate a narrative.
  7. 11. A collection of songs, usually about the same subject matter.
  8. 13. Solo instrument with orchestra accompaniment.
  9. 14. Solo instrument with keyboard accompaniment.