Music! To Tell the Story of Our Lives

3. a style of Italian opera with realistic portrayals of everyday life
6. comic opera
7. stage plays with songs and dance interspersed with spoken lines
9. an inventory of compositions mastered and performed by a musician
12. suggest actions or events before they happen
14. a staged drama that is predominantly sung, most often with orchestral accompaniment
17. melodies associated with a particular character that recur throughout the film
18. the text of an opera or musical, including dialogue and lyrics
19. Jonathan Larson's updated, reinterpretation of La Boheme
21. the main character in Les Miserables
25. songs for a solo singer and orchestra
26. putting all the elements of sound-dialogue, sound effects, and music-onto one soundtrack
29. specific music for a particular scene in a film or television production
30. Musical inspired by the 1862 novel by French writer Victor Hugo
31. a perforated strip along the film's edge containing coded representations of the sound
33. Country where operas originated in around 1600
34. the most successful film composer ever, writing music for Star Wars and Harry Potter
36. film similar to audiotape coated with an oxide surface
37. a short musical idea that is easily remembered and helps unify a composition

1. a dramatic speech or song delivered by once character in a play
2. the sharing of another person's feelings or emotions
4. to determine which scenes should have music
5. One of the first composers of Broadway musicals, wrote Little Johnny Jones in 1904
7. a serious form of opera with lofty heroic themes from history and mythology
8. Composer of the famous opera The Marriage of Figaro
10. Italian composer known for his works Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, La Fanciulla del West and Tosca
11. composing music expressly for a film
13. composed the musical scores for Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and Martin Guerre
15. a dramatic stage form that combines the arts of acting and singing
16. sung conversation between characters to help advance the story line
20. The way in which Mimi, the heroine in La Boheme, dies
22. an early staged variety show that included songs, dances, and comedy skits
23. Proclaimed to be "the greatest love story ever sung"
24. Chinese American child prodigy on the cello
27. the sustaining of a pitch
28. a series of clicks that allow the conductor to synchronize the orchestras playing to the filem
32. the spoken lines of a play or musical show
35. the feeling of sympathetic pity or compassion for a character