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ARCHPOET
A classical music word search puzzle by ALLAN RAE
Archpoet (circa 1130-circa 1165), or Archipoeta (in Latin and German), is the name given to an anonymous twelfth century author of ten extremely personal medieval Latin poems, the most famous being his 'Confession' found in the Carmina Burana manuscript. It's possible that the Archpoet came from Western Europe, probably north of the Alps, and possibly Germany, and was of noble birth. He was very well educated, possibly an itinerant cleric and possibly a court poet. The poems appear to have been written for specific occasions, and many of them seem to be clever attempts to ask for clothes, drinks, food or money from a rich patron.
Archpoet is one of many words hidden in my latest word search puzzle, below, provided here for your weekend entertainment, similar to those which I've published here previously.
My 'Find a word' puzzle Archpoet is shown above. How many words can you find? If the puzzle is not visible, or if you can't see the letters in the puzzle clearly, then please click here. All of the words below are hidden in the puzzle above. If you can't see the list of words clearly, please click here.
You may find it useful to print out both the puzzle and word list, so that you can mark the puzzle squares with a stroke and mark the words in the list that you've already found.
Just to remind you, words in these puzzles can be hidden vertically, horizontally, diagonally and in retrograde.
The solution is complex as many letters are used multiple times, making these puzzles very dense, so only marking a line 'stroke' through the word is necessary. (Many commercial puzzles specify that each word should be circled when found; on these hand drawn puzzles, however, it is necessary just to stroke.)
A section of the Archpoet word puzzle
containing the word 'archpoet'
Some of the words in the puzzle may be unfamiliar, so while you attempt to solve the puzzle, why not also try looking up those words that you don't know - for example Bretel, Capote, Espirando, Hétu, Iseler, Manico, Ventadorn or Weinzweig - to improve your vocabulary.
Please note that any accents in words such as Carreño, Hétu, Pärt and Trapèze have been omitted from the puzzle, so that accented letters can share puzzle squares with non-accented letters from other words.
Good luck! Please let me know how you get on, via the Classical Music Daily contact page. You can also suggest words - composers, compositions, musical terms etc - for future puzzles. I have a dictionary of sorts containing at least 2,500 music terms, and have made several hundred puzzles like the one above, twenty-seven of which are now available via this online magazine. More next month!
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Allan Rae,
Calgary, Canada