| SERAPHIM | Arrangement for harps, ie music originally for angels |
| FUGUE | Music originally for ukulele, finally using lute regularly? |
| RHAPSODY | Does it call for harps to be played for somebody? (8) |
| CFLAT | Standard key for harps |
| FILM | John Williams's genre, for instance - light music, originally (4) |
| NEUME | Word for a "breath" of music originally, later a symbol representing a melodic gesture (5) |
| MARVEL | Be amazed at music, originally a Ravel composition (6) |
| MOTOWN | Genre of music originally from Detroit (6) |
| MRBIG | Important person backing rock and roll music originally (2,3) |
| EMBRYO | Early form of English music originally had liveliness, so it's said |
| POLYPHONIC | Like some music originally hit on in old college film? |
| ZYDECO | Kind of American dance music, originally from Louisiana (6) |
| EURHYTHMICS | System of training to music originally taught by Emile Jacques-Dalcroze (11) |
| CONCERTO | Music originally composed on cornet, perhaps (8) |
| BSIDE | "Ice Ice Baby" vis-a-vis "Play That Funky Music," originally |
| THAIRM | Gju string, perhaps old type used in traditional music originally |
| SYMPHONIC | Like some music originally carried in my shop, oddly (9) |
| CALYPSO | A kind of West Indian music, originally from Trinidad (6) |
| SKA | Dance music originally from Jamaica (3) |
| SROS | Favorite signs for angels |
