If you set a home crossword for music

It happens that the school as a homework set to make music crossword. This, in general, is not a tricky business, nevertheless, this task can be solved even easier if you use a special program for crossword puzzles.

In this article I will show you as an example a simple musical crosswordand tell you how easy it is to do the same. The crossword of music was compiled by me with regard to the school curriculum - the questions are plainly simple.

When you yourself will make a musical crossword, then not to wrestle with the invention of words and questions, just open the school notebook and use the notes that you did in the classroom. Different terms, names of works, musical instruments, names of composers, etc. will fit for this work.

An example of a musical crossword

Here is the crossword that I have, try to solve it:

Questions horizontal:

1. The name of the famous play I.S. Bach for flute.
2. Ancestor of Russian classical music.
3. An orchestral introduction to opera or ballet, which sounds just before the beginning of the performance.
4. The ensemble of four musicians, as well as the name of one famous fable I.A. Krylov.
5. A piece for choir, soloists and orchestra, a requiem mass, has, for example, Mozart.
6. Percussion musical instrument, with a tremolo (this is such a game technique) of which Haydn's 103rd symphony begins.
7. The name of the ballet PI Tchaikovsky on the New Year theme, in which the tin soldier fights with the mouse king.
8. Musical and theatrical genre, in which such compositions as "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by M.I. Glinka, "The Queen of Spades" PI Tchaikovsky.
9. Low male voice.
10. One of the "whales" in music: dance, march and ...?
11. The musician who runs the symphony orchestra.
12. Belarusian song-dance about potatoes.
13. A musical instrument whose name is composed of Italian words, meaning "loud" and "quietly".
14. Opera tale N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov about the guslar and the sea princess Volkhov.

Questions on the vertical:

1. Musical interval connecting two adjacent steps.
2. Austrian composer, author of the song "Evening Serenade".
3. A sign in a note that indicates a drop in sound by half a tone.
4. The ensemble of three instrumental musicians or singers.
5. The name of the composer who opened the first conservatory in Russia.
6. Who wrote the cycle "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 the soloist as if compete with each other.
9. The musical style to which the work of I.S. 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. The great German composer who wrote a lot of fugues, and he is also the author of Matthew Passion.
13. The consonance of three or more sounds.

Answers

Horizontally:

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

Vertically:

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

How to make a crossword puzzle for music?

Now I will tell a little about how I did this miracle. Helped me crossword puzzle maker entitled Crossword creator. It is free, it is very easy to find on the Internet and install (it weighs about 20 MB - that is, not enough). Before I entered this program, I tried a number of others. This seemed to me the best.

As you can see, I haven't included too many words for guessing in my musical crossword - only 27. You can use any number of words. The list of necessary words is simply entered into the window of the program, which itself then distributes them vertically and horizontally and crosses beautifully.

We need only to choose the style of design, and then download the finished crossword puzzle. And you can download several necessary files at once: a crossword puzzle with no answers, it’s also filled with cells, a list of all the answers, and a list of questions. True, here, the questions are taken from different dictionaries, so it is most likely that the questionnaire will have to be corrected. For an example of a musical crossword that I showed you, I wrote the questions manually.

Now a very important point. How to bring the crossword itself to a graphic file? Separately designated functions of export to other formats in the program Crossword Creator no. In fact, we simply copy the image and then paste it wherever we want. It is best to insert it into any graphics editor: in Photoshop, for example. The easiest way is to use standard Paint, or you can go straight to Word, to the same file where you have questions.

One technical point. After the picture is inserted into the image editor, click "Save as", then enter the name and (important!) choose the format. The fact is that in Paint the default is bmp bitmap, and in Photoshop its own format, it’s more advantageous for us to save a picture in JPEG format, and choose it.

Conclusion

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