opera scenario 1
Across
- 1. a song written for two voices
- 6. a group of various string instruments who perform together
- 7. A male singer or voice with a range higher than a bass and lower than a tenor.
- 8. The ornamentation of music written for the voice with florid passages, especially
- 11. a cheer of approval for male opera singers
- 12. a speechlike, declamatory vocal style that is used in the conversational passages in an opera
- 15. Italian meaning to make notes short, detached and separated
- 17. Italian meaning to smoothly connect notes
- 19. soft
- 20. the text of an opera; from the Italian word meaning “little book”
- 22. having the pleasing qualities of music : enjoying music : having a talent for playing music
- 23. loud
- 24. a low sound created by instrument or by voice
- 25. Soprano A voice having a range between soprano and contralto.
Down
- 1. Of or relating to energy or to objects in motion
- 2. Italian meaning realism or the idea of taking events from real life and using those ideas to make an opera or drama.
- 3. how far you can carry your voice out for others to hear (loudness)
- 4. highest female voice whose range falls between middle c and a c above the staff
- 5. 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 sung
- 9. is a song for solo voice, often designed to show off a singer’s vocal ability
- 10. A melodic passage or phrase, especially in Wagnerian opera, associated with a specific character, situation, or element.
- 13. an instrumental introduction to an opera, an oratorio, or other stage work; the term is sometimes given to an independent orchestral composition
- 14. A low female singing voice; a contralto.
- 15. a document showing all the notes of a piece of music
- 16. a group of people who sing together divided by parts
- 18. an instrumental introduction to a musical drama, usually shorter than an overture; also, a short, independent composition.
- 21. a musical drama for voices and orchestra, usually based on a religious narrative usually: performed without scenery or action