Opera
Across
- 3. short independent instrumental piece
- 6. musical composition of two voices
- 8. decorations in vocal voice
- 9. string instrument
- 11. introduction played by orchestra
- 12. shortened or detached when singing or played
- 15. the act of visualizing
- 16. an adult male voice
- 17. vibration and gradation in the volume of musical sound
- 19. singers singing in a union
- 20. musical instrument in which felt covered hammers strike the metal strings
- 24. type of male singing
- 26. main story of a dramatic work
- 27. praising a performer
Down
- 1. group of performers on various musical instruments
- 2. smooth and connected without breaks in between
- 4. recurring short melodic phrase
- 5. a voice in between soprano and contralto
- 7. express approval for women
- 10. the use of everyday actions in musical words
- 12. a written or printed piece of music
- 13. musical term meaning “high”
- 14. pertaining to the nature of a recital
- 18. highest singing voice in women and boys
- 21. expressive melody
- 22. text or words of an opera
- 23. musical term meaning “loud”
- 25. extended dramatic composition