September 2009

Organist's Crossword 12

Another puzzle for you crossword addicts to test your musical knowledge again!

Clues Across

 1. Choral work usually with orchestral accompaniment (7)
 5. Instrumental works for one or two players (7)
 9. Opera about a young Druidic priestess torn between love and duty (5)
10. Composer of 9 across (7)
11. Initially a British music publisher (3)
12. Nationality of Glinka and Borodin (7)
13. Manual 5 on the organ (5)
15. Tonic sol fa note in Corelli (2)
16. Tonic sol fa note in Smetana (2)
17. A musical work—literally (4)
20. How Schubert left his eighth symphony (10)
23. Time of year for a Hugh Roberton evening choral work (5)
24. Having to do with hearing (5)
25. You’ll find this in a reed pipe but not in a flue pipe (6)
26. Access the organ diapasons (4)
29. Initially the orchestra based in London’s Barbican Centre (3)
30. Not making any sound (4)
31. German Protestant leader, singer and lutenist and hymn writer (6)
32. Recessional voluntary at the end of a church service (8)
34. Flowers from Amsterdam (6)
35. Keyboard pieces that exhibit the player’s skill (8)
36. Metal of which a whistle may be constructed (3)

Clues Down

 1. With spirit or dash, musically (3,4)
 2. James, 18th-century English organist and composer of church music and harpsichord pieces (5)
 3. In tempo, between largo and andante (6)
 4. Tomaso, 17th/18th-century Italian composer (8)
 5. Antonio, Italian composer who intrigued against Mozart (7)
 6. ‘Sing’ like a horse! (5)
 7. A work for three (4)
 8. Opposite of 26 across (7)
14. La Cinderella opera by Rossini (11)
16. A French minuet (6)
18. Little by little, musically (4,1,4)
19. The legendary Sir Malcolm (7)
20. Character sung by the tenor in Haydn’s Creation (5)
21. Obsolete six-holed wind instruments of the recorder type (8)
22. Opera by R. Strauss about a New Testament biblical woman (6)
27. Person who insists of absolute adherence to tradition rules in language or music (6)
28. A mass for an admiral (6)
33. A meadow found in a treble aria (3)

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