Across
- 2. keyboard instrument that has two models: 'grand' and 'upright'
- 6. man who led the Protestant Reformation
- 8. this composer was was named a chevalier and commissioned Haydn to write 6 works for orchestra
- 9. an extended composition usually for orchestra and often composed of multiple movements
- 13. an introduction to a collection of dances but is not technically a dance movement
- 14. a melodic or harmonic passage occurring at the end of a phrase that conveys a sense of conclusion
- 15. the primary texture of music in the Classical period
- 21. a musical form that literally means 'a work to be sung'
- 22. a poet, composer, and musician of the middle ages who composed love songs and laments
- 24. John Philip Sousa helped redesign this marching instrument
- 25. in medieval times, the role of music in the church was to accompany this
- 27. Classical composer who suffered from deafness and symptoms of lead poisoning
- 28. any instrumental work in multiple movements
- 29. Classical composer often considered the greatest musical genius of all time
Down
- 1. Renaissance composer who wrote the operas 'L'Orfeo' and 'L'Arriana'
- 3. the viola strings are tuned an octave above this bowed string instrument
- 4. the political system of the Middle Ages
- 5. Italian composer and violinist who wrote 'The Four Seasons'
- 7. the metal tubes under the xylophone and marimba bars are called what?
- 10. a sacred vocal composition based on Gregorian Chant with 2 or more parts in polyphonic texture
- 11. man who invented the printing press
- 12. the primary patron of the arts and education in the Middle Ages
- 16. keyboard instrument that makes sound with pressurized air moving through pipes of various lengths
- 17. a piece of highly systemized procedure of imitative polyphony
- 18. instrument that is the Renaissance ancestor to the oboe
- 19. Gregorian chant is primarily in this language
- 20. woodwind instrument that the alto, tenor, and baritone members are the most commonly played
- 23. renaissance composer best known for his madrigals
- 26. French word that means 'rebirth'
- 27. plucked string instrument of African origin
