Music

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Style of music with improvisation, born in New Orleans (4)
  2. 5. A stringed instrument usually having six strings (6)
  3. 7. A tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece (8)
  4. 9. Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to (3)
  5. 10. A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes (4)
  6. 12. German baroque organist and contrapuntist (4)
  7. 13. Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest (9)
  8. 14. A high-pitched woodwind instrument (5)

Down

  1. 1. Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the ___ family (6)
  2. 2. An outbuilding for housing automobiles (6)
  3. 3. A prolific British baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (6)
  4. 6. A three-sided polygon (8)
  5. 7. A combination of blues ___ jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians (5)
  6. 8. Music of general appeal to teenagers (3)
  7. 11. Hard piece of stone (4)
  8. 12. The color of the sky on a clear day (plural) (5)