Crossword and Quiz
Test your wits and musical knowledge
The first correct solution of our monthly crossword to be picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music worth £40 (available at bookstores or www.oup.co.uk). Send your answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 307, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 18 May 2017 (solution in our August 2017 issue). Crossword set by Paul Henderson
ACROSS
1 Minimum of solemnity in character when exhibiting Hungarian dance (7) 5 Company’s roles in HMS Pinafore? They get equal billing (2-5) 9 Some fertile area – as referenced by Vaughan Williams? (3) 10 US composer left with US honor, I fancy? That’s about right (3,8) 11 Rhythmic pattern is cut out (5) 12 Peculiar equipment brought back and left for musical (5,4) 13 Musical item, strangely lame, not presented in one go? (9) 15 German composer leaving around start of recital (4) 18 Talent show winner perhaps engaged in ritornello – disaster when played back (4) 19 I argue wildly about 75% of Ring, waving historic violin (9) 22 60% of contraltos sadly regret backing story-teller (9) 24 Early trombone, minus some contents, recalled brass instruments (5) 25 Singer depicting nocturnal storm? (11) 26 Duo ditching piano for song (3) 27 German city choir’s initial English quality (7) 28 Shorten article by English composer (7)
DOWN
1 Demand that is encompassing musical work for steam-organ (8) 2 Hit parade, sadly, is a hated system (9) 3 Schubert piece only taken up by US label (5) 4 Soprano’s bad mood over the French disorder (7) 5 Lady in choir heading for local radio station? (7) 6 14’s collaborator, apparently having problems with the brass section? (9) 7 Enough attack? Not quite (5) 8 Recording some bands in Gleneagles (6) 14 Jazz great heading off for New Zealand city (9) 16 Part of guitar producing drab forte, possibly (9) 17 Finish arrangement of airs with English hymn from the past (4,4) 19 Scottish performer from Scottish valley about to leave French city (7) 20 Arabic and Indian music enthralling one Spanish composer (7) 21 Good series of performances, say, upheld rock style (6) 23 Confines one American composer with second (5) 24 Tenor, one receiving bequest of those people (5)