Opera Crossword

7. The forces of operative in any field.
8. A musical introduction to an opera.
10. The text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
12. A projecting or protruding part.
13. Loud music.
14. An air or melody.
15. A recurring short melodic phrase or theme used, especially in Wagnerian music dramas, to suggest a character, thing, etc.
16. A large stringed key-board instrument.
17. Smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones.
19. Medium, middle.
22. Music with distinct breaks with excessive tones.
24. A theatrical word used to praise a performer.
25. A notch, scratch, or incision; a stroke or line.
26. A group of persons singing in unison.
27. Used in praising a female performer.

1. A combination of different music pieces combined together.
2. A relatively short, independent instrumental composition, free in form and resembling an improvisation.
3. The range of the lowest male voice.
4. A musical composition for two voices or instruments.
5. A male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
6. pertaining to or of the nature of recital.
9. The highest singing voice of women or boys.
11. 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.
16. The plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
18. Runs, trills, and other florid decorations in vocal music.
20. 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.
21. The lowest female voice; contralto.
23. The adult male voice intermediate between the bass and the alto or countertenor.