opera cross-word puzzle
Across
- 1. The highest male singing voice/ the lowest female singing voice
- 3. a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists
- 6. in a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.plot the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
- 8. an introductory piece of music, most commonly an orchestral opening to an act of an opera, the first movement of a suite, or a piece preceding a fugue.
- 9. orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments
- 11. a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company
- 16. an adult male singing voice between tenor and bass or an instrument that is second lowest in pitch in its family
- 17. An elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody
- 18. soprano a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
- 20. a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
- 21. a sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others
- 23. an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other
- 24. composition.
- 27. the highest of the four standard singing voices
Down
- 2. a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range
- 4. a large keyboard musical instrument
- 5. A sound of the lowest range/ The lowest adult singing voice
- 6. the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
- 7. a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music
- 10. a long, accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio
- 12. the volume of a sound or note
- 13. used to express approval when a performer or other person has done something well.
- 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
- 15. when your voice is loud
- 19. a thing at which someone excels.
- 22. realism in the arts, especially late 19th-century Italian opera.
- 25. a performance by two people, especially singers, instrumentalists, or dancers
- 26. exclamation