Opera Scenario 1

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Across
  1. 2. the highest female voice whose range falls between middle c and a c above the staff.
  2. 3. 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.
  3. 5. what the conductor of the orchestra uses to lead an opera or musical. The score contains both the music and the vocal parts.
  4. 6. variation and gradation in the volume of musical sound.
  5. 7. Italian meaning to make notes short, detached and separated.
  6. 8. Italian meaning realism or the idea of taking events from real life and using those ideas to make an opera or drama.
  7. 10. the female voice which is between that of an alto and a soprano and whose range is from middle c to a g above the staff.
  8. 13. the story around which the musical or opera is based
  9. 14. the part of an opera sung by a large group.
  10. 17. Italian meaning to smoothly connect notes.
  11. 18. A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition.
  12. 19. a theatrical production combining drama, vocal & orchestral music, costumes, scenery, and sometimes, dance.
  13. 21. a song for solo voice, often designed to show off a singer’s vocal ability.
  14. 22. sound is louder and stronger.
  15. 23. an orchestral composition forming the prelude or introduction to an opera, oratorio, etc.
  16. 24. a cheer of approval for male opera singers.
  17. 26. the highest male voice whose range is from an e on the first line of the staff to a g above the staff on the treble clef. An important note is that the tenor voice sounds an octave lower than it is written.
Down
  1. 1. clarity of voice through environment.
  2. 3. the male voice is between the tenor and the bass voices. The range is from a b on the second line of the bass clef to a d above the staff on the bass clef.
  3. 4. a cheer of approval for female opera singers.
  4. 9. a soprano who has been specially trained to sing rapid passages, trills and difficult runs.
  5. 11. a speechlike, declamatory vocal style that is used in the conversational passages in an opera.
  6. 12. 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.
  7. 15. a song written for two voices.
  8. 16. a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
  9. 18. text of an opera; from Italian word meaning “little book.”
  10. 20. an instrumental introduction to a musical drama, usually shorter than an overture; also, a short, independent composition.
  11. 25. the lowest female voice whose range is from an a below the staff to an e on the fourth space of the staff.