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