Opera
Across
- 3. A song written for two voices.
- 5. The highest adult female voice.
- 6. A instrument with keys.
- 7. The text of an opera or other long vocal work.
- 9. An instrumental introduction to a musical drama, usually shorter than an overture; also, a short, independent composition.
- 11. A instrument played with strings.
- 12. Notes that are played quickly and sharply.
- 13. The second lowest voice. Above the bass, below the soprano and alto.
- 15. A passage in vocal music when the words are sung in a way that resembles speech.
- 16. A cheer of approval for female opera singers.
- 18. Italian meaning to smoothly connect notes.
- 19. A voice, instrument, or sound of the lowest range, in particular.
- 20. A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
- 21. A large organized group of singers, esp. one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company.
- 23. Italian meaning realism or the idea of taking events from real life and using those ideas to make an opera or drama.
- 24. A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.
Down
- 1. A voice, instrument, or part below the highest range and above tenor, in particular.
- 2. A written form of a musical composition.
- 3. The loudness and softness of musical sound.
- 4. A soprano who has been specially trained to sing rapid passages, trills and difficult runs.
- 7. Type of song or and gonera.
- 8. An orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition. The nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up
- 10. An estimate or forecast of a future situation or trend based on a study of present ones.
- 14. Soprano Female voice which is between that of an alto and a soprano and whose range is from middle c to a g above the staff
- 16. Used to express approval when a performer has done something well.
- 17. A long, accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio.
- 19. An adult male singing voice between tenor and bass.
- 22. A person's strong suit, or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in.