Across
- 1. People in a group singing in unison
- 3. The lowest pitch or range
- 4. A theme associated throughout a musical drama
- 5. Used to praise a female performer
- 7. A male voice between tenor and bass
- 8. A group of performers on various musical instruments, including stringed instruments
- 10. The uppermost voice
- 14. A voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- 16. Shortened and detached when played or sung
- 17. The adult male voice intermediate between the bass and the alto
- 18. Volume of musical sound
- 22. An orchestral composition forming the prelude or introduction to an opera
- 24. Hammers,operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings
- 25. Smooth and connected
Down
- 1. A lyric soprano of high range who specializes in such music
- 2. The text or words of an opera
- 3. Used to praise a performer
- 6. A projecting or protruding part
- 9. Louder
- 11. Also called storyline
- 12. A melody
- 13. An extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung
- 15. Pertaining to or of the nature of recital
- 18. Two people singing together
- 19. The lowest female voice and the highest male voice
- 20. The overture to an opera
- 21. Introduced into opera in the early 1900s
- 23. To compose the music for