Opera Scenario #1

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Across
  1. 2. used to express approval when a performer or other person has done something well.
  2. 5. A melody.
  3. 6. in a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.
  4. 8. a thing at which someone excels.
  5. 9. 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
  6. 12. Musical composition for two voices or instruments.
  7. 13. a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range.
  8. 15. fine plaster used for coating wall surfaces or molding into architectural decorations
  9. 17. a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
  10. 21. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
  11. 23. A lyric soprano of high range.
  12. 26. the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
  13. 27. a large organized group of singers, esp. one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company
Down
  1. 1. orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments.
  2. 2. an instrument that is second lowest in pitch in its family
  3. 3. a voice, instrument, or part below the highest range and above tenor, in particular.
  4. 4. short, constantly recurring musical phrase
  5. 7. introductory piece of music, most commonly an orchestral opening to an act of an opera, the first movement of a suite, or a piece preceding a fugue.
  6. 10. realism in the arts, esp. late 19th-century Italian opera.
  7. 11. 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. The strings' vibration is stopped by dampers when the keys are released, and it can be regulated for length and volume by two or three pedals.
  8. 14. a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
  9. 16. a group of instrumentalists, esp. one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
  10. 18. Uppermost part or voice.
  11. 19. an estimate or forecast of a future situation or trend based on a study of present ones.
  12. 20. an introduction to something more substantial.
  13. 22. the branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces.
  14. 24. a voice, instrument, or sound of the lowest range, in particular.
  15. 25. used to express approval when a performer or other person has done something well.