Opera Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. song for a solo voice, designed for the singers vocal ability.
  2. 4. A theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person or situation
  3. 6. theatrical production combining drama, vocal and orchestral music, and sometimes dances
  4. 9. a soprano who has been specially trained to sing rapid passages.
  5. 10. the story that the opera is based on.
  6. 12. The presentation of an image on a surface especially a movie screen.
  7. 14. the part of the opera sung by a large group.
  8. 15. Variation and gradation in the volume of musical sound.
  9. 19. the male voice between the tenor and the bass voices
  10. 20. a group of performers on various musical instruments for playing music
  11. 21. the highest male voice.
  12. 23. the musical introduction to an opera.
  13. 26. a cheer of approval for the male singers.
  14. 27. what the conductor of the orchestra uses to lead an opera or musical.
Down
  1. 1. the lowest female voice
  2. 2. a song written for 2 voices.
  3. 3. The female voice which is between that of an alto and a soprano
  4. 5. Italian meaning to smoothly connect notes.
  5. 7. the instrumental introduction to a musical drama, shorter than an overture.
  6. 8. the highest female voice.
  7. 11. the text of an opera.
  8. 13. speech like declamatory vocal style used in conversation passages in the opera.
  9. 16. a musical instrument in which felt covered hammers operated from a keyboard
  10. 17. a direction in a musical score or part loud; with force opposed to a piano
  11. 18. meaning to make notes short.
  12. 22. cheer of approval for the female singers.
  13. 24. Italian meaning realism or the idea of taking events from real life
  14. 25. the lowest of the male voices