Across
- 5. one syllable over many notes
- 7. sacred large-scale choral work written for concert halls
- 8. the same melody is repeated with the verse or chorus
- 10. two or more pitches sounding simultaneously
- 13. one melodic line
- 15. male singer prized for his high voice
- 17. recurring musical themes that have a specific meaning
- 18. volume
- 20. "total work" with drama, music and spectacle fused together
- 22. Italian for "song" the emotional part
- 23. staged composition with sets, costumes, singers and orchestra
- 25. one syllable per note
- 26. the language of the people
Down
- 1. many independent musical lines
- 2. unaccompanied solo song
- 3. two to four notes per syllable
- 4. the script of the opera
- 6. speed of the music
- 9. "sing play" German drama with comic or romantic plot
- 11. the "speech" part that provides narrative
- 12. staged composition combining sets, costumes, singers and orchestra
- 14. the "tune"
- 16. highest register of the male voice
- 19. density of the sound, number of melodic lines
- 21. secular unaccompanied polyphonic song popular in the Renaissance
- 24. the tone color of an instrument or voice
- 27. relative lengths of notes in a sequence to each other