May 2005
Organists' Crossword 8	Show Menu

Clues Across

4. With Galatea, it becomes a Handel masque (4)
7. Bolero is one of his well-known works (5)
10. Herbert, English composer, teacher and cathedral organist (7)
11. In Anglican chanting, the allocation of the words to the music (8)
12. Timetable; list of events or rates (8)
13. Stiff bristle at the top of wheat or barley (3)
14. Mute (4)
15. Dramatic musical work (5)
16. See 20 down.
18. Rats in the sky! (4)
19. Austrian violinist and composer; friend of Haydn and Mozart (11)
24. An abbreviated work (2)
25. These pictures are a cycle of five songs by Elgar (3)
27. Composer of Jerusalem (5)
28. Night pieces, literally (9)
30. The first performance of his great oratorio was in 1846 (11)
32. Organ stop imitating a stringed instrument (5)
35. Little-known Swiss composer, now remembered only for his Cavatina (4)
38. Malcolm, 20-century English composer (6)
39. Once described as a collection of people scraping, blowing and banging (9)
40. A short biblical priest (3)
41. Second note (2)
42. Bedrich, 19-century Czech composer; influenced by national folk music (7)
43. Léon, French organist and composer (9)

Clues down

1, 2, 3 Venues for the Three Choirs festivals (9, 8, 10)
5. Pigeon song? (3)
6. Feathered vertebrate with musical cry (8)
7. These’s a Christmas song about this colourful ruminant (8)
8. Whimsical notion or action (6)
9. An example of 6 down (6)
11. Italian foot key or keys (6)
17. Short pithy saying; many are attributed to Solomon (7)
20 (+16 across) Oratorio by Handel, noted for its double choruses (6,2,5)
21. Scottish river (3)
22. Musical composition in which one section occurs intermittently (5)
23. This terra is secure (5)
26. Biblical tambourines (9)
27. A shortened Gilbert & Sullivan nautical operetta (8)
29. Prefix an octave lower (6)
31. American bandmaster-composer of marches (5)
32. Spherical; world-wide (6)
33. University city of Italy (6)
34. The organ mechanism is fighting! (6)
36. Strip of wood fixed on the finger board (4)
37. Player’s part supported by a violin (4)
38. Organist’s qualification (1,1,1,1)

Enigma Variations

from a collection of howlers in school essays on classical music

• Refrain means don’t do it. In music it’s the part you’d better not sing.
• Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was rather large.
• Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music.
• Henry Purcell was a well-known composer few people have heard of.
• Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.
• Caruso was at first an Italian. Then someone heard his voice and said he would go a long way. So he went to America.

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