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