The BBC Music Magazine
PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 348
The first correct solution of our crossword picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music. A runnerup will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (see www.oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 348/July, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 9 July 2020 (solution in Oct 2020 issue).
ACROSS
1 Standard applied to a tragic opera (5) 4 Good many upset with curtailed music broadcast (German school) (9) 9 Staff to arrange orchestra initially for composer (7) 10 Ship’s master dismissing one hogging second place where shanties are sung (7) 11 A piece by Bizet? It may be carried on the breeze (5) 12 Italian composer replies vaguely, about to leave (9) 13 What may supply music in car, nothing more? (5) 15 Italian composer good for France, once almost popular with Italy (9) 16 Time a Parisienne initially followed Lully, not opening in melodic style (9) 18 What may soften sound of bells around start of day? (5) 20 West Indian performers lend beats, possibly (5,4) 22 Irish music critic beginning to maul old instrument (5) 24Test, formerly relative key of C maj, then E (7) 25 Ballet step quartet curtailed – better reduced on both sides (7) 26 Witty comment by host identifying brass players on street? (5,4) 27 Successor to Paganini occupying Western studio (5)
DOWN
1 Rock band in front in stormy rain (7) 2 Runs activity around one broadcast medium (5) 3 I am not excited after a lively movement? (7) 4 Band to move higher, around No. 4 in charts (5) 5 Cricketers with musical skill, say, longing to take up pop legend (9) 6 Mountain instrument in a recording displacing matter in mountain (7) 7 Astir amongst the clarinets and oboes? (2,3,4) 8 American composer, a fellow I note in charge, rising (7) 14 Mostly lack Handel being played in entertainment venue (5-4) 15 Singer in dance with a clarinet? Revolutionary (9) 16 They 24 last of performers in street, possibly (7) 17 Fake half of Falstaff if company’s closing (7) 18 An opus arranged, requiring English and German trombone (7) 19 English composer enthralled by unusual amber traffic-light (7) 21 French composer starts to use flutes in time (5) 23 A new fashionable group delivering Bruckner? (5)