music
Across
- 3. a dramatic work in which all or most of the words are sung to music
- 8. a musical instrument with strings, which you hold under your chin and play with a bow
- 10. musical instrument that usually has six strings and that you play with your fingers or with a plectrum
- 13. a group of people who sing together, for example in church services or public performances
- 14. a voice or singer with a range between tenor and bass
- 16. a performance of two musicians or singers
- 19. a singing voice with the highest range for a woman or boy
- 20. a musical instrument that you hold in both hands to produce sounds.
- 21. a piece of music written as an introduction to an opera or a ballet
- 23. producing sound, and eventually speech.
- 24. a musical instrument of the woodwind group, like a thin pipe in shape
- 26. a piece of music designed to give a player practice in technical skills
- 27. sounds that are arranged in a way that is pleasant or exciting to listen to.
- 29. a large musical instrument with strings stretched from top to bottom on a frame, played with the fingers
- 30. large musical instrument played by pressing the black and white keys on the keyboard
Down
- 1. a musical show, with people playing music
- 2. a musical instrument like a guitar with a body in the shape of a triangle and two, three, or four strings popular especially in Russia
- 4. based on a scale in which the third note is a semitone / half step higher than the second note
- 5. a musical instrument made of two rows of wooden bars of different lengths that you hit with two small sticks
- 6. to use one's vocal chords to make musical tones.
- 7. a large group of people who play various musical instruments together
- 9. a short piece of music, especially an introduction to a longer piece
- 11. a musical instrument made of a hollow round frame with plastic or skin stretched tightly across one or both ends.
- 12. a simple musical instrument that consists of a long piece of metal bent into the shape of a triangle, that you hit with another piece of metal
- 15. lowest tone or part in music, for instruments or voices
- 17. a person who stands in front of an orchestra, a group of singers etc., and directs their performance, especially somebody who does this as a profession
- 18. based on a scale (= a series of eight notes) in which the third note is two whole tones / steps higher than the first note
- 22. a strong regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements
- 25. a man’s singing voice with a range just below the lowest woman’s voice
- 28. the most exciting part of a play, piece of music, etc. that usually happens near the end