If you are assigned a crossword puzzle on music for home

It happens that at school, as homework, they ask you to write music crossword. This, in general, is not a tricky matter, however, this problem can be solved even easier if you use a special program for composing crossword puzzles.

In this article I will show you a simple example musical crossword, and I’ll tell you how easy it is to make one yourself. I compiled a crossword puzzle on music taking into account the school curriculum – the questions are downright simple.

When you compose a musical crossword yourself, in order not to rack your brains coming up with words and questions, just open your school notebook and use the notes you made in class. Various terms, names of works, musical instruments, names of composers, etc. will work for this work.

Example of a musical crossword

Here’s the crossword puzzle I came up with, try to solve it:

1. The title of the famous play by I.S. Bach for flute.
2. The founder of Russian classical music.
3. An orchestral introduction to an opera or ballet, sounded just before the start of the performance.
4. An ensemble of four musicians, as well as the name of one famous fable by I.A. Krylova.
5. For example, Mozart has a work for choir, soloists and orchestra, a funeral mass.
6. A percussion musical instrument, with a tremolo (this is a playing technique) of which Haydn’s 103rd symphony begins.
7. The name of the ballet by P.I. Tchaikovsky on a New Year’s theme, in which the tin soldier fights the mouse king.
8. Musical and theatrical genre, in which such works as “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by M.I. were written. Glinka, “The Queen of Spades” by P.I. Tchaikovsky.
9. Low male voice.
10. One of the “whales” in music: dance, march and…?
11. A musician who conducts a symphony orchestra.
12. Belarusian song-dance about potatoes.
13. A musical instrument whose name is made up of Italian words meaning “loud” and “quiet.”
14. Opera epic N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov about the guslar and the sea princess Volkhov.

1. A musical interval connecting two adjacent steps.
2. Austrian composer, author of the song “Evening Serenade”.
3. A sign in musical notation that indicates the sound is lowered by a semitone.
4. An ensemble of three instrumentalists or singers.
5. The name of the composer who opened the first conservatory in Russia.
6. Who wrote the series “Pictures at an Exhibition”?
7. The dance that underlies Strauss’s play On the Beautiful Blue Danube.
8. A piece of music for a solo instrument and orchestra, in which the orchestra and soloist seem to compete with each other.
9. The musical style to which the work of I.S. belongs. Bach and G.F. Handel.
10. Austrian composer who wrote “Little Night Serenade” and “Turkish March”.
11. Polish national dance, for example, in Oginski’s play “Farewell to the Motherland.”
12. A great German composer who wrote many fugues, and he is also the author of the St. Matthew Passion.
13. Consonance of three or more sounds.

1. Joke 2. Glinka 3. Overture 4. Quartet 5. Requiem 6. Timpani 7. Nutcracker 8. Opera 9. Bass 10. Song 11. Conductor 12. Bulba 13. Piano 14. Sadko

1. Second 2. Schubert 3. Flat 4. Trio 5. Rubinstein 6. Mussorgsky 7. Waltz 8. Concerto 9. Baroque 10. Mozart 11. Polonaise 12. Bach 13. Chord

How to make a crossword on music?

Now I’ll tell you a little about how I made this miracle. Helped me program for creating crosswords called Crossword Creator. It is free, very easy to find on the Internet and install (weighs about 20 MB – that is, not much). Before I started this program, I tried a number of others. This one seemed the best to me.

As you can see, I didn’t include many words for guessing in my musical crossword puzzle – only 27. You can use any number of words. The list of required words is simply entered into the program window, which itself then distributes them vertically and horizontally and beautifully crosses them.

All we have to do is choose a design style, and then download the finished crossword puzzle. Moreover, you can download several necessary files at once: a crossword puzzle without answers, or one with filled-in cells, a list of all answers, and a list of questions. True, the questions are taken from different dictionaries, so most likely the questionnaire will have to be adjusted. For the music crossword example I showed you, I wrote the questions by hand.

Now a very important point. How to output the crossword itself into a graphic file? There is no separate function for exporting to other formats in the Crossword Creator program. Essentially, we just copy the image and then paste it wherever we want. It is best to paste it into some graphic editor: Photoshop, for example. The easiest way is in standard Paint, or you can directly in Word, in the same file where you have the questions.

One technical point. After the picture is inserted into the graphic editor, click , then enter the name and (important!) select the format. The fact is that in Paint the default bitmap is bmp, and Photoshop has its own format, but it is most profitable for us to save the image in JPEG format, so we select it.

Conclusion.

Your music crossword is ready. Thank you for attention. If you find this material “useful for society”, please send it to “Contact”, “My World” or somewhere else – there are buttons for this right under this text. See you again!