Music History

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Someone who ___ music as a profession (8)
  2. 6. A chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony (5)
  3. 7. Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person (7)
  4. 8. A prolific British baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (6)
  5. 11. Any large and important church (9)
  6. 13. The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world (11)
  7. 15. A building where musical dramas are performed (5)

Down

  1. 1. A musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms (6)
  2. 3. A musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players (9)
  3. 4. German baroque organist and contrapuntist (4)
  4. 5. The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the ___ style of art, architecture (7)
  5. 9. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages (8)
  6. 10. Concerned with religion or religious purposes (6)
  7. 12. Italian baroque composer and violinist (7)
  8. 14. English mathematician and physicist (6)