Music crossword

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Across
  1. 2. the story around which the musical or opera is based
  2. 5. A voice, instrument, or part below the highest range above tenor.
  3. 6. an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition
  4. 8. Good job/ ending to classical music
  5. 9. what opera singers need to do in order to be heard due to large opera halls.
  6. 11. what the conductor of the orchestra uses to lead an opera or musical. The score contains both the music and the vocal parts.
  7. 14. the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
  8. 15. the highest of the four standard singing voices.
  9. 16. A group of people singing in unison
  10. 17. Soprano a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
  11. 19. a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in.
  12. 20. a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
  13. 21. Low in pitch; of the lowest pitch
  14. 22. an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
  15. 23. smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones.
Down
  1. 1. the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
  2. 2. a large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard and metal strings, which are struck by hammers when the keys are depressed.
  3. 3. a musical composition for two voices or instruments
  4. 4. Italian meaning to make notes short, detached and separated.
  5. 7. a speechlike, declamatory vocal style that is used in the conversational passages in an opera.
  6. 10. Dynamics-variation and gradation in the volume of musical sound
  7. 12. the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful.
  8. 13. a relatively short, independent instrumental composition, free in form and resembling an improvisation.
  9. 14. a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
  10. 18. a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
  11. 21. Interjections
  12. 24. An air or melody