Across
- 2. Ma Rainey is known as the "_________ of the Blues"
- 5. To play/sing loudly
- 6. "Father of the Blues"
- 7. Classical composer who lived from 1756-1791
- 9. Smith "Empress of the Blues"
- 12. Genre that originated from Christian and African music
- 16. A dramatic work set to music with costuming, sets, and acting with words originally in Italian
- 18. Instrument family where all instruments are chordophones
- 20. Musical time period from 1820-1900
- 21. Musical time period from 1450-1600
- 24. Baroque composer famous for "The Four Seasons Suite"
- 25. Name of BB King's guitars
- 27. Musical time period from 450-1450
- 29. "King of Ragtime", Scott ___________
- 30. "Our guy" that was famous for writing Renaissance motets
Down
- 1. Prayers sung on pitches
- 3. The distance between the highest and lowest notes
- 4. Highest female voice type
- 6. Classical and Romantic composer who went deaf
- 8. the use of repetition and simple melodies; Philip Glass
- 10. A nun and mystic who was the first female composer we studied
- 11. Musical time period from 1600-1750
- 13. Handel's most famous oratorio
- 14. To play/sing softly
- 15. This is another name for 12-tone system; "ism"
- 17. Spread out waves = _______ sound
- 18. Singing on a neutral/nonsense syllable
- 19. Make up words or music; Jazz
- 22. Musical time period from 1750-1820
- 23. Close waves = _____ sound
- 26. Instrument family where all instruments are aerophones and made of wood, brass, and nickel
- 28. No tonal center/key
