Music Crossword

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