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Crossword puzzle, chamber music
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By Greg Cahill


Think you’re tops when it comes to knowing string-playing terms? Test your chops with this crossword puzzle and prove you know it all!
ACROSSDOWN

    3. A little
    6. With the bow
    8. A lively Scottish dance, slower than a reel
    9. The type of music developed between roughly 1600 and 1750
    11. The distance in pitch between two notes
    13. The keynote for a scale
    14. Playing successive notes with down bow and up bow in alternation, but not staccato
    15. An evening song

    1. To change from one key to another
    2. Composition with two or more simultaneous melodies
    4. Half a semitone
    5. An emphasis given to a note
    7. Playing with spirit
    10. Very soft, quiet
    12. A rapid scale passage

Answers to the crossword puzzle can be found here.
This article also appears in Teen Strings, Issue #11




 
 

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