OCP
Across
- 3. Loud.
- 7. The highest in the range above tenor.
- 9. The highest of the four standard singing voices.
- 10. Used in praising a performer.
- 12. An extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes a ballet.
- 13. The text or words of an opera.
- 15. An introduction to something more substantial.
- 16. Realism in the arts.
- 17. An elaborate vocal melody sung by sopranos.
- 18. Orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments.
- 19. A performance by two people usually singers.
Down
- 1. A singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range.
- 2. Smooth and connected.
- 4. A voice or instrument lowest the musics volume.
- 5. A large keyboard instrument with metal strings.
- 6. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work.
- 7. An elaborate melody in an opera.
- 8. A male voice or voices that are between tenor and bass.
- 11. Middle.
- 12. A group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
- 14. Musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note.
- 17. A large group of singers.