Opera Terms

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Across
  1. 3. variation and contrast in force or intensity
  2. 6. with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others
  3. 9. the plan or main story
  4. 11. an associated melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation especially in a Wagnerian music drama
  5. 13. the highest adult male singing voice
  6. 15. realism in the arts, especially late 19th-century Italian opera
  7. 16. an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important manner
  8. 17. soft or softly
  9. 18. a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music
  10. 19. in a manner that is smooth and flowing
  11. 20. a rhythmically free vocal style that imitates the natural inflections of speech and that is used for dialogue and narrative in operas and oratorio
  12. 21. a dramatic song when people make their voices go very high
  13. 22. a style of singing usually in opera that contains a lot of high notes sung very fast
  14. 24. a shout of approval often used interjectionally in applauding a performance
  15. 26. used interjectionally in applauding a woman
Down
  1. 1. a man's singing voice that is higher than the voice of the bass and lower than the voice of the tenor
  2. 2. having or indicating a low sound or range
  3. 4. a group or set of twenty or about twenty
  4. 5. a singing voice that is lower than a soprano but higher than a tenor
  5. 7. a piece of music that is performed by two singers or musicians
  6. 8. the highest of the four standard singing voices
  7. 10. in a loud manner
  8. 11. the text of an opera or a long vocal work
  9. 12. a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto
  10. 14. an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition
  11. 17. the process or technique of reproducing a spatial object upon a plane or curved surface or a line by projecting its points
  12. 22. a group of singers and dancers in a modern play, musical show, etc
  13. 23. a song in an opera sung by one person
  14. 25. a dramatic song when people make their voices go very high