Opera
Across
- 3. a dramatic work in one or more acts set to music for singers and instrumentalists
- 9. A large organized group of singers
- 11. A piece played by the orchestra at the beginning of a musical performance
- 12. the scheme of something
- 13. a written form of a musical composition
- 14. different word for female performer
- 15. Elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody, in operatic singing by a soprano
- 16. A passage meant to be played softly
- 17. A performance by 2 people
- 22. a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- 23. Singing voice of a male adult which is between tenor and bass
- 25. Used to praise a preformer
- 27. Each note in a music piece played sharply and separated from other notes
Down
- 1. Introduction to an opera
- 2. the adult males voice
- 4. smooth no breaks in tone or song
- 5. A text written for and set to music in an opera
- 6. A group of instrumentalists, one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music
- 7. The lowest of the four main singing voices. Found in adult males
- 8. 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
- 10. The highest of the four main singing voices
- 12. A action or protruding part
- 18. The use of everyday life and actions in artistic works
- 19. Different volume levels involved in a musical performance
- 20. A theme or motif in music
- 21. Loud or loudly
- 24. A voice, instrument, or part below the highest range and above tenor, in particular
- 26. A long, accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio