opera crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
  2. 6. the highest of the four standard singing voices.
  3. 7. the course of a thought or mean
  4. 10. the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
  5. 13. a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation
  6. 15. A large group of organized singers.
  7. 16. a group of instrumentalists combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections they play classical music.
  8. 18. the presentation of an image on a surface, or a movie screen.
  9. 19. 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.
  10. 20. a melody sung solo with accompaniment.
  11. 22. high range in soprano
  12. 24. a performance done by two people.
  13. 26. variation or gradation in the volume of the sounds in music
  14. 27. praising a performer.
Down
  1. 1. a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.
  2. 3. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
  3. 4. orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments.
  4. 5. 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.
  5. 8. a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
  6. 9. a passage performed or marked to be performed loudly
  7. 11. praising a female performer.
  8. 12. an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition.
  9. 14. with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.
  10. 17. the lowest female voice.
  11. 21. A male voice between tenor and bass.
  12. 23. realism in the arts. Late 19th-century Italian opera.
  13. 25. soft
  14. 27. lowest pitch of range.