Opera Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
  2. 7. A cheer of approval for female opera singers.
  3. 8. the loudness and softness of musical sound.
  4. 12. the second highest part of a contrapuntal musical texture and is also applied to its associated vocal range, especially in choral music.
  5. 14. Italian meaning to make notes short, detached and separated
  6. 15. an estimate or forecast of a future situation or trend based on a study of present ones
  7. 16. a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
  8. 17. The male voice is between the tenor and the bass voices. The range is from b on the second line of the bass clef to a d above the staff on the bass clef.
  9. 18. 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. 21. a theatrical production combining drama, vocal and orchestral music, costumes, scenery, and sometimes, dance.
  11. 23. a soprano who has been specially trained to sing rapid passages, trills and difficult runs.
  12. 24. what the conductor of the orchestra uses to lead an opera or musical. The score contains both the music and the vocal parts.
  13. 25. Italian meaning to smoothly connect notes.
  14. 27. A cheer of approval for male opera singers.
Down
  1. 1. a song written for two voices
  2. 2. the highest of the four standard singing voices.
  3. 4. the text of an opera from the Italian word meaning “little book.”
  4. 5. 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
  5. 6. The lowest of the male voices which is usually not developed until after the age of 16 or 17. The range of a bass is from a d below the staff on the bass clef to a c above the staff on the bass clef.
  6. 9. a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
  7. 10. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
  8. 11. a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
  9. 13. any frequency higher than the fundamental frequency of a sound.
  10. 19. realism in the arts, especially late 19th-century Italian opera.
  11. 20. Loud
  12. 22. a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range.
  13. 23. The part of an opera sung by a large group.
  14. 26. A song for solo voice, often designed to show off a singer’s vocal ability.