Across
- 3. a group of persons singing in unison
- 6. The lowest adult male voice
- 8. loudly
- 9. Lowest female voice and highest male voice in music
- 10. the uppermost par or voice
- 12. an orchestral composition forming the prelude to an opera
- 15. variation and graduation in the volume of musical sound
- 17. the text of an opera
- 20. the plan, scheme, main story of the opera
- 21. a group of performers on many musical instruments
- 22. a short musical idea, harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic
- 25. a word used in parsing a female performer
- 26. an instrument in which felt covered hammers, operated from a keyboard
- 27. the form of musical and dramatic art represented by such compositions
Down
- 1. smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones
- 2. the overture of an opera
- 4. a written or printed piece of music with all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged on staves
- 5. used in praising a performer
- 7. shortened or detached when played or sung
- 11. A solo vocal piece with instrumentals accompaniment
- 13. pertaining to or of the nature of recital
- 14. a protruding part
- 15. a musical composition for two voices or instruments
- 16. Soprano a person having such a voice
- 18. A male voice intermediate between tenor and bass
- 19. runs, trills, and other florid decorations in vocal music
- 23. the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works
- 24. the adult male voice intermediate between the bass and the alto