Music crossword

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Across
  1. 4. the story around which the musical or opera is based
  2. 5. a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
  3. 7. smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones.
  4. 10. an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition
  5. 11. Italian meaning to make notes short, detached and separated.
  6. 12. Soprano a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
  7. 14. a soprano who has been specially trained to sing rapid passages, trills and difficult runs.
  8. 15. variation and gradation in the volume of musical sound.
  9. 18. a speechlike, declamatory vocal style that is used in the conversational passages in an opera.
  10. 20. the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
  11. 21. what the conductor of the orchestra uses to lead an opera or musical. The score contains both the music and the vocal parts.
  12. 22. a person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in.
  13. 24. 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.
  14. 25. An air or melody
Down
  1. 1. 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.
  2. 2. the highest of the four standard singing voices.
  3. 3. the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition
  4. 4. a relatively short, independent instrumental composition, free in form and resembling an improvisation.
  5. 6. a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
  6. 8. Low in pitch; of the lowest pitch
  7. 9. Good job/ ending to classical music
  8. 10. 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.
  9. 13. what opera singers need to do in order to be heard due to large opera halls.
  10. 16. A group of people singing in unison
  11. 17. a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
  12. 19. 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.
  13. 23. Interjections
  14. 26. A voice, instrument, or part below the highest range above tenor.