Across
- 5. A chamber-music piece in several movements for three instruments plus continuo in Baroque; for only one or two instruments since then
- 7. A written-out composition in an improvisational style, usually for organ or harpsichord
- 8. From the Baroque period on, the system where all chords have a specific function;major/minor
- 11. An ostinato in the bass
- 13. Drama set to music, with characters singing, not speaking
- 15. Sectional pieces in which each section repeats certain musical elements while others change around them
Down
- 1. A set of chords continuously underlying the melody and the instruments playing the continuo, usually cello and harpsichord
- 2. A motive, phrase, or theme repeated over and over again
- 3. "The last great madrigalist and the first great opera composer"
- 4. A composition of systematic imitative polyphony, usually with a main theme, the fugue subject
- 6. Composer nad organist at St. Mark's; mixes Renaissance and Baroque characteristics
- 9. A lively fuguelike composition, one of several 16th-and 17th-century genres of instrumental music
- 10. - A half-singing, half-reciting style of presenting words in opera and oratorio
- 12. A piece consisting of a series of dances
- 14. A vocal number for solo singer and orchestra in opera and oratorio