Across
- 6. Melody sung solo
- 7. smooth and connected without breaks the successive tones.
- 8. Shortened and detached when played or sung
- 10. A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition.
- 14. A musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard. Strike the metal strings.
- 15. Florid decorations
- 16. The course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken.
- 18. The highest singing voice in women and males.
- 20. the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition
- 21. A projecting or protruding part.
- 24. The lowest female voice
- 25. Variation and gradation in the volume of musical sound
- 26. Used in praising a performer
- 27. A relatively short, independent, instrumental composition.
Down
- 1. a person’s suit or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill that one excels in
- 2. The form or branch of musical and dramatic art represented by such compositions
- 3. Group of people singing in unison
- 4. pertaining to or of the nature of recital.
- 5. male voice or voice part between tenor and bass.
- 9. A secret plan or scheme to some purpose.
- 11. A voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- 12. the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions which were seen as artificial and untruthful.
- 13. A notch or scratch or incision a stroke or line
- 17. Used in praising a female voice
- 19. A group of performers on various musical instruments
- 22. An orchestral composition forming the prelude or introduction to an opera, etc.
- 23. The lowest pitch or range
- 25. a musical composition for two voices or instruments