Ethiopian princess in Verdi's opera · Italian
Italian for fairly lively · Italian
Italian, a song for a single voice · Italian
The triangular Russian stringed instrument · Russian
A song that tells a story
A short necked Japanese lute · Japanese
From bossa nova, Brazil's smooth jazz samba · Portuguese
Bold, brilliant playing that shows off skill · Italian
The closing turn of a musical phrase
A soloist's showy flourish near the end · Italian
A sung work for voices and instruments · Italian
A keyboard of chiming bells, the sound of the Sugar Plum Fairy · Italian
The closing passage of a piece of music · Italian
A small hexagonal squeezebox
A sweet sounding stringed instrument struck or plucked
A study piece written to build skill · French
A pause held as long as the player likes · Italian
The silvery woodwind played sideways
A lively French dance of the Baroque · French
Devoted daughter in Verdi's Rigoletto · Italian
A Cuban dance with a swaying rhythm · Spanish
Notes sounded together, from the Greek harmonia
Hildegard of Bingen, the medieval composer and abbess · German
A thumb piano of metal tines from Africa
The 21 stringed harp lute of West Africa · Mandinka
The long, graceful zither of Japan · Japanese
A gentle song to send someone to sleep · English
A pear shaped stringed instrument of old · Arabic
The ancient stringed instrument of Greek poets · Greek
The words of a song, from the Greek lyrikos, of the lyre
A small stringed instrument, from the Italian mandolino
A rattle filled with seeds, shaken in pairs · Spanish
A percussion instrument of tuned wooden bars · Bantu
A lively Polish folk dance · Polish
The thumb piano of the Shona people of Zimbabwe · Shona
A small keyboard you blow into
A tune, from the Greek melodia, singing
An elegant dance in three time · French
Lively singer in Puccini's La Boheme · Italian
A dreamy piece written for the night · French
A small clay wind instrument · Italian · small dogs
A light, short opera · Italian · small dogs
The orchestral opening of an opera · French
Italian for very soft, for a quiet little dog · Italian · small dogs
A pear shaped Chinese lute · Chinese · small dogs
A bouncy Bohemian dance · Czech
A free flowing piece of music
A Cuban dance with a rolling rhythm · Spanish
Brazilian dance and music · Portuguese
An evening song performed outdoors · French
A piece of music for one or two instruments, Italian
A short, simple sonata · Italian · small dogs
The highest of the singing voices · Italian
Clever maid in The Marriage of Figaro · Italian
A grand work for full orchestra
A hand drum ringed with jingling discs · French · small dogs
A whirling Italian dance · Italian
A showy keyboard piece full of quick runs · Italian
Icy princess in Puccini's final opera · Italian
A plucked stringed instrument of South India · Sanskrit
The alto voice of the string family
Village bride in Mozart's Don Giovanni · Italian
The Scottish wind instrument with a bag and drones · Scottish
A poet and storyteller of Celtic tradition · Welsh
The rich middle male singing voice · Greek
Count Basie, the swing bandleader and pianist
The lowest range of sound, from the Latin bassus, low · big dogs
The deep, buzzy woodwind with a long folded tube
Bix Beiderbecke, the jazz cornet player of the 1920s
Georges Bizet, the composer of Carmen · French
Luigi Boccherini, the cellist composer of the famous minuet · Italian
The Irish frame drum played with a small stick · Irish
A slow Spanish dance in three time · Spanish
A small hand drum · small dogs
The long necked lute of Greek music · Greek
A valveless brass horn used for calls · French
A street musician, for a dog who performs for treats
A box drum from Peru that you sit on and slap · Spanish
A large, deep toned stringed instrument, from the Italian · big dogs
A small Andean guitar · Spanish · small dogs
Polish composer of poetic piano music · Polish
Muzio Clementi, the pianist and piano maker · Italian
John Coltrane, the jazz saxophonist
A work for a soloist and an orchestra · Italian
Arcangelo Corelli, the Baroque violinist and composer · Italian
A small, mellow brass instrument like a trumpet
French composer of Clair de Lune · French
The long wooden wind instrument of Aboriginal Australians, Didge for short
Antonin Dvorak, the Czech composer of the New World Symphony · Czech
English composer of the Enigma Variations · English
Duke Ellington, the great jazz bandleader and composer
Quick thinking barber in Rossini's opera · Italian
A warm toned brass instrument like a wide trumpet · German
Italian for very loud, for a dog with a big bark · Italian
Christoph Willibald Gluck, the reformer of opera · German
A large bronze disc that rings when struck
Edvard Grieg, the Norwegian composer of Peer Gynt · Norwegian
Joseph Haydn, the father of the symphony · German
Gustav Holst, the composer of The Planets
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, the pianist composer · German
Scott Joplin, the king of ragtime
Musical direction meaning broad and slow · Italian
The American folk and blues singer
Franz Liszt, the dazzling Hungarian pianist · Hungarian
Jean Baptiste Lully, the court composer of Louis XIV · French
Italian for majestic · Italian · big dogs
Title of respect for a great conductor · Italian
Gustav Mahler, the composer of vast symphonies · German
A lively Cuban dance and rhythm · Spanish
A travelling medieval singer
Jacques Offenbach, the composer of the can can · French
A numbered work in a composer's catalogue · Latin
The pear shaped lute of the Middle East · Arabic
Johann Pachelbel, the composer of the famous Canon · German
Italian violinist of dazzling skill · Italian
Cheerful birdcatcher in The Magic Flute · German
Italian, quickly · Italian
Italian composer of Tosca and La Boheme · Italian
Henry Purcell, the great English Baroque composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff, the Russian pianist and composer · Russian · big dogs
French composer of the famous Bolero · French
A solemn choral work of remembrance · Latin
A short repeated musical phrase
Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, the composer of Flight of the Bumblebee · Russian
A form where the main tune keeps returning · Italian
Gioachino Rossini, the composer of The Barber of Seville · Italian
Antonio Salieri, the Viennese court composer · Italian
Erik Satie, the eccentric French composer of the Gymnopedies · French
Short for saxophone, the smooth voice of jazz
Domenico Scarlatti, the composer of hundreds of keyboard sonatas · Italian
A brisk playful movement in a symphony · Italian
Robert and Clara Schumann, the composer couple of the Romantic era · German
Jean Sibelius, the Finnish composer of Finlandia · Finnish
John Philip Sousa, the march king
The giant brass tuba that wraps around the player · big dogs
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the composer of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker · Russian
Italian, the speed of a piece of music
The high male singing voice · Italian
The brass instrument with a slide, for a loud and happy dog
A wandering poet musician of medieval France · French
A bright voiced brass instrument · French
The deep voiced giant of the brass family · Latin · big dogs
Italian composer of Aida and Rigoletto · Italian
A performer of great skill · Italian
Italian composer of The Four Seasons · Italian
The squeezebox instrument with bellows and buttons
Musical direction meaning slow and graceful · Italian
Italian for agitated, for a dog who cannot sit still · Italian
Musical direction meaning brisk and lively · Italian
Italian for lovingly · Italian
Musical direction meaning at a walking pace · Italian
A rousing song of celebration · English
A chord played one note at a time · Italian
A fast, inventive style of jazz · English
An American music style rooted in African American song
A rolling blues piano style · English
Italian for vigour, as in con brio, with spirit · Italian
A lively, playful piece of music · Italian
A woodwind with a warm, woody voice · French
The sign at the start of a stave that sets the pitch
A tall Cuban drum played with the hands · Spanish
A metal bell played in bands, the more of it the better
A passage that grows steadily louder · Italian
A brass disc struck for a bright crash · Greek
A dance music style, short for the French discotheque
A Chinese bamboo flute · Chinese
A goblet shaped hand drum from West Africa · Mandinka
A mellow tenor brass instrument, from the Greek for sweet sounding
A lively Spanish dance with castanets · Spanish
A short brass flourish that announces an arrival · French
Another word for the violin, from the Old English fithele
A small, shrill flute of marching bands · small dogs
The last movement of a work, often the grandest · Italian
The passionate music and dance of Andalusia · Spanish
Traditional music passed down by ear
Italian for force and power · Italian
A piece where one theme chases another · Latin
A groovy, rhythm heavy style of music
Italian for fire, as in con fuoco, with fire · Italian
Italian for playful and merry · Italian
German for bell play, a set of tuned metal bars · German
Joyful choral music of the church · English
The feel of a rhythm that makes you move
A small mouth organ played by breathing · Greek · small dogs
A tall stringed instrument plucked by hand · English
To sing with closed lips, a cosy little name · small dogs
A cranked, buzzing string instrument of medieval fairs
An American music style built on improvisation
A fast, lively folk dance
The humming toy instrument you blow into, for a dog who sings along · small dogs
Notes played smoothly and joined together · Italian
Italian for slow, for a calm, unhurried dog · Italian
An unaccompanied song for several voices · Italian
A reedy woodwind with a clear, nasal tone · French
The span of eight notes in a scale · Latin
Plucking the strings instead of bowing them · Italian · small dogs
A short piece that opens a larger work · French
An early jazz style with a syncopated beat · English
A quick Scottish and Irish folk dance
Italian for robbed time, playing freely with the beat · Italian
A three stringed Japanese lute · Japanese
A rousing work song of sailors
The long necked stringed instrument of Indian classical music · Hindi
A bouncy Jamaican music style, the parent of reggae
The crisp drum that keeps the beat · English
A heartfelt style of music born from gospel and blues
Notes played short and detached · Italian
The bouncing big band jazz of the 1930s and 1940s
Paired hand drums of Indian classical music · Hindi
An electronic instrument played without touching it · Russian
The big tuned kettledrums of the orchestra · Italian · big dogs
Italian for calm and peaceful · Italian
The high voice in music · small dogs
A rapid trembling repetition of a note · Italian
A rapid flutter between two notes
Italian for all together, when the whole orchestra plays · Italian
A clay pot drum of Nigeria · Igbo · small dogs
Short for ukulele, the little four stringed instrument of Hawaii · Hawaiian · small dogs
Hawaiian, jumping flea · Hawaiian · small dogs
A wavering, singing pitch · Italian
Musical direction meaning lively and fast · Italian
A sweeping ballroom dance in three time · German
A flat stringed instrument played on the lap · German
Accordion led dance music of Louisiana · French