Across
- 1. I’m confused. Where’s tonic????
- 5. Opera singing place kicker
- 6. A style of singing that features lyrical agility and purity of tone
- 8. How many notes an octave spans
- 11. Two eighth notes equal one __________________
- 13. The space in music notation that is between two barlines
- 14. A concordant or agreeable combination of tones
- 19. Copland’s “Hoedown” from Rodeo was used to advertise this product
- 21. Stories and music without scenery or costumes
- 23. The first secular song for which we have music notation
- 25. The first part of a fugue
- 26. Comedic Italian opera
- 29. She was a composer, healer, and feminist in the middle ages
- 30. All performers play/sing the same thing but begin at different times
- 32. Two characters who like to sing opera in a car
- 36. Madrigal composer who was a murder and a madman
- 38. The simultaneous use of two or more rhythmic patterns
- 39. Madrigals often used the technique of _______
- 40. Don Giovanni’s sidekick
- 42. A song with no repeated musical information
- 45. The vocal style in opera that imitates the natural inflections of speech
- 46. The distance between two notes
- 48. Rigoletto composer
- 49. The “big” beat
- 52. To hear music in the mind
- 53. A highly emotional song in an opera
- 54. The first accented beat of a group of beats
- 56. The birthplace of organum
- 57. Composer who wrote operas and then oratorios
- 58. Era of J.S.
- 59. Thy hand ____________
Down
- 2. The text of an opera
- 3. Berry He helped break down musical racial barriers
- 4. What a lot of pop songs are
- 7. A tonality that is often described as sad, spooky, scary
- 9. A musical idea
- 10. The musical term for various volume levels.
- 12. A map of the sequence of high and low pitches in a melody
- 14. The three notes that make up a C major chord
- 15. Organizing patterns of rhythmic pulses
- 16. A melody that moves by small intervals is said to be this
- 17. The 5th note of a major scale
- 18. Additional music at the end of piece to finalize it.
- 20. Porgy and Bess composer
- 22. Beethoven used this
- 24. What Simba will become
- 27. Unaccompanied vocal music
- 28. The “map” of a piece of music
- 31. Term for a span of pitches in a song from the lowest to the highest
- 33. Beethoven wrote nine of these
- 34. Multi-movement sacred work
- 35. The first note of a major scale
- 37. What not to do between movements
- 41. The orchestral introduction heard at the beginning of an opera
- 43. A repeated pattern in music (Pachelbel used this)
- 44. The little beat
- 47. Singing different lyrics to the same melody
- 50. Stravinsky wrote a “new” one
- 51. Ring Cycle composer
- 55. The highest singing voice