Across
- 6. a brief, improvised notes such as trills or turns that add expression or charm to music.
- 8. a series of plays that represents a succession of scenes or a simple plot.
- 9. means "little book"
- 10. Drama with continuous or nearly continuous music, staged with scenery, costumes and actions
- 13. a differentiated structure composed of specialized cells and tissues that work together to perform specific functions within an organism, such as the heart, liver, or lungs.
- 14. is a keyboard instrument that produces sound by plucking strings with quills or leather plectra, rather than hitting them with hammers like a piano.
- 15. a leading and successful female opera singer.
- 16. a soprano singer, leading female role in an opera.
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- 1. Highly embellished passage, often improvised, usually at important times of the piece.
- 2. Plucked string instrument popular from the late middle ages through the Baroque period, typically pear or almond shaped with a rounded back, flat fingerboard, frets, and one single and five double strings.
- 3. bizarre, exaggerated, or in bad taste, came to be applied to the art and music of several generations is a story of changing tastes and values.
- 4. Musical interlude on a pastoral, allegorical, or mythological subject performed before, between, or after the acts of a spoken comedy or tragedy.
- 5. composers of the Baroque period sought musical means to express emotion such as sadness, joy, anger, love, fear, excitement, and wonder.
- 7. play in verse with incidental music and songs, normally set in idealized rural surroundings, often in ancient times
- 11. performing music whose music is incomplete or left unfinished by its original composer and completing it oneself.
- 12. A large lute with extra strings used especially in the seventeenth century for performing as accompaniment to singers or instruments.