Music in Religion

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A religion represented by the many groups that profess various forms of the ___ doctrine (8)
  2. 6. Showing reverence or devotion to a deity. (7)
  3. 7. Offering words of homage as an act of worship (6)
  4. 9. The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca (5)
  5. 10. German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (11)
  6. 12. German composer of instrumental music (9)
  7. 14. A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work (plural) (5)
  8. 15. How much matter something contains (4)
  9. 16. A chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony (5)

Down

  1. 1. Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud (7)
  2. 2. A woman religious (plural) (4)
  3. 4. A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States (plural) (10)
  4. 5. Folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United (6)
  5. 8. An adherent of ___ (10)
  6. 11. A song of praise (plural) (5)
  7. 13. German baroque organist and contrapuntist (4)