Contrasts in Music Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• crescendo : the opposite of getting softer
• fortissimo : contrasting with very soft sections of music
• largo : a very different tempo than allegro
• strings : an alternative instrument family to brass
• scale : some go up, while others go down
• compound : a contrasting meter to simple time
• polyphonic : a change of texture to homophonic
• minor : the opposing tonality to major
• staccatto : a contrasting articulation to tenuto
• bass : the other end of the range to soprano or treble
• rhapsody : a musical structure that uses highly contrasting sections
• mute : a device that alters the timbre of a musical instrument
• rest : when not playing notes
• semibreve : longer and more sustained than quavers and crotchets
• violin : the other end of the spectrum to a double bass
• piccolo : the highest woodwind instrument
• triangle : high, sparkling, percussive sound, very different to a bass drum
• tuba : the lowest of the brass instruments