Music Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. a type of jazz originating in the 1940's and characterized by complex harmony and rhythms.
  2. 5. a clef placed on the fourth line of a staff to indicate that the fourth line of the staff represents the F next below middle C
  3. 7. a person who plays a musical instrument, especially as a profession, or is musically talented
  4. 8. A clef indicating that the second line from the bottom of a staff represents the pitch of G above middle C
  5. 9. sad music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. The queen of the blues is Koko Taylor
  6. 10. a person who writes music
  7. 12. playing notes that aren't written out for you
  8. 14. a slow or romantic song
  9. 16. A song that is an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians. They are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners
Down
  1. 2. a section in a song that changes from the original verses and choruses. A bridge does not get repeated anywhere else in the song
  2. 3. A scale with only five notes
  3. 4. the pattern of stresses or accents that provide the pulse or beat of music
  4. 6. a musical rhythm that normally accents the weak beat
  5. 7. a pleasing series of musical notes that form the main part of a song or piece of music
  6. 11. a treble staff joined to a bass staff by means of a brace, with the treble staff on top
  7. 13. is a repeating musical figure, like a guitar riff
  8. 15. a type of music of African-American origin characterized by improvisation and syncopation
  9. 16. A kind of jazz generally played by a “Big Band” and characterized by a lively rhythm suitable for dancing