Music

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Someone who plays a ___ instrument (8)
  2. 4. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 (9)
  3. 5. German baroque organist and contrapuntist (4)
  4. 7. A musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players (9)
  5. 8. An alloy of copper and zinc (5)
  6. 9. A creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (13)
  7. 13. A thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir (5)
  8. 14. United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (7)
  9. 15. Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest (9)

Down

  1. 1. The person who leads a musical group (9)
  2. 3. Any large and important church (9)
  3. 6. The section of a band or orchestra that plays ___ instruments (10)
  4. 8. The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the ___ style of art, architecture (7)
  5. 10. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages (8)
  6. 11. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat (11)
  7. 12. United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (6)