December 2001
Organists' Crossword 2	Show Menu

Clues Across

1. Patron saint of music (7)
7. Metrical division of music (3)
9. An American 7 across (7)
10. Collectively sounding the same note (6)
12. To which the pedal-playing part is attached is attached (3)
13. A 2 foot stop in the orchestra (7)
15. You play it from here (7)
16. James, 18th-century organist and composer of church music (5)
18. Purcell wrote music for this queen (5)
19. William, 16th-century organist and composer of church music (4)
21. An answer, explanation or resolution (8)
24. A Beethoven piano concerto or a Haydn string quarter (7)
25. The penultimate note? (2)
26. The ultimate note (4)
27. A succession of notes is the tune (6)
28. A fla,golet on the organ (7)
29. A large narrow-necked bottle enclosed in a wicker basket (8)
32. In the year of our Lord (1,1)
33. Sounds like Dame Myra but it’s not! (5)
34. Raw material for metals (for organ pipes?) (3)
35. The girl with the gun — in the musical (5)
36. Old Testament book which is sung in church (6)
37. The bird in the clear air, in the song by Schubert (4)

Clues Down

1. Where you are likely to find an organ (6)
2. Class of flute (that smokes?) in an organ (7)
3. One of the Mozarts (7)
4. Initially and literally, the correct time for a matinee (1,1)
5. A stop of closed pipes of 4 ft pitch (5,5)
6. 19th century Italian pianist, arranger and composer; Dr Faust is one of his works (6)
7. Where campanologists are found (6)
8. The choice of stops (12)
11. Nothing(3)
14. Suppressing official sounds like an incense burner (6)
17. Malcolm, 20th-century English composer (6)
19. 16 ft reed stops (9)
20. Name given to Schumann’s symphony in E (7)
21. Those who perform on their own (8)
22. George Phffipp, 18th century German composer of operas and orchestral works (8)

23. Bernard, 20th century English organist and composer of church music (6)
29. The head ofa cathedral (4)
30. Prophet and Old Testament book (4)
31. Perceive sound (4)

Well Done, to the following who submitted correct solutions to the crossword puzzle in Issue 1 of Soundboard: Alison McCormick, Angela Lucas, John Godden, Adrian Somérfield, Maeve Coghian, Susan McCormick, Eric de Courcy, Janet Ashe, the late Jack Roycroft, Ruth Reid, plus one with no name or address.

The lucky two whose names came out of the proverbial “hat” to receive prizes were Ruth Reid (All Saints, Grangegorman) and Adrian Somerfield (St Thomas’ Mount Merrion) and their prizes, respectively, were a CD of the church music of Thomas Wood, and two volumes of a recently-published series of books about hymn writers. Grateful acknowledgement is expressed to Priory Records Ltd and to Stainer & Bell for donating these items as prizes.

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