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Across 4. Instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with strings, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well 6. Turn of the 17th century in Rome that was exemplified by drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur 8. An era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use approximately between 1600 and 1750 10. A form of classical and dramatic work in which singers convey the drama 12. Musical form sung by a soloist with the accompaniment of instruments often used in operas and oratorios 13. Meeting at which the Roman Catholic Church decided that art should appeal to the illiterate and uneducated 18. An influential Italian violoinist and composer of influential Baroque music 20. English composer who wrote 21. Music for one melodic voice with accompaniment, characteristic of the early 17th century, especailly in Italy 24. Collection of orchestral movements, often considered as three suites, composed by George Frederic Handel 26. Became popular in the court of Louis XIV where Jean-Baptiste Lully was the leading court composer 27. Nicknamed the "Red Priest" 28. The phase between late Baroque and the early Classical era, with its broad mixture of competing ideas and attempts to unify the different demands of taste, economics, and world view 29. The idea that chords rather than notes, created the sense of closure

Down 1. One of the earliest works recognized as an opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi with text by Allesandro Striggio for the annual carnival of Mantua 2. A type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts 3. A French composer of Italian birth, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France 5. Performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part 6. A kind of integer musical notation used to indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones, in relation to a bass note which was used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period 7. Music with one melodic voice and rythmically similar accompaniment 9. Musical flourishes that are not necessary to the overall melodic (or harmonic) line, but serve to decorate that line 11. First person to use the term "Baroque Music" in 1919 14. Type of musical work which typically employs a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra 15. A group of academics who met informally in Florence in the palace of Count Giovanni De'Bardi to discuss arts, as well as sciences 16. Prolific German composer and organist 17. German born composer famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grossi 19. Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas he is considered the founder of the Nepolitan School of Opera 22. A large musical compostion including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists 23. King of France during the Baroque period 25. Northern city in Italy, epicenter of Baroque musical composition