Across
- 3. sacred work for soloists, chorus and orchestra for concert performance
- 6. composed the Four Seasons
- 7. Lutheran predecessor to hymns
- 8. Father of Opera
- 10. improvised solo passage near the end of a movement
- 11. repeated theme in bass instruments
- 13. musical worship service for Lutheran church
- 15. the Gabrielis lived and worked in the city
- 16. master of Italian opera and English oratorio
- 19. serious opera always in Italian
- 21. set of dances taken from an opera or ballet
- 23. Italian comic opera
- 24. text of an opera
- 25. means return of a central theme; contrast between soloist and orchestra
- 26. self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form
Down
- 1. long accompanied song for a solo voice with full accompaniment
- 2. city where opera started
- 4. imitates the rhythms and accents of spoken language, rather than melody
- 5. orchestral piece at beginning of an opera, oratorio, etc..
- 8. probably the most famous oratorio, written by Handel
- 9. six concertos written by Bach
- 12. famous German composer
- 14. composition for a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra
- 17. court composer for Louis XIV
- 18. Greatest English composer of the Baroque
- 20. intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe
- 22. composition for small group of soloists and orchestra