Music Vocabulary

1. Used in praising a female performer/performance.
4. 1.A large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard and metal strings, which are struck by hammers when the keys are depressed.
7. A group of persons singing in unision.
9. Music Cut short crisply; detached.
11. A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.
12. Moderately; quite.
13. the levels of sound, loud or soft.
15. is an introductory piece, often designed to initiate an opera or other dramatic work.
17. Is a theme or part of a theme, associated in the work of Wagner with a character, idea, or event, and forming in his music-dramas an essential element in their construction.
18. A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface.
21. written music that shows all parts.
22. Is the text of an opera or similar vocal work, originally issued in a small printed book.
23. the highest kind of female voice.
25. used in vocal works, particularly opera and oratorio, usually for a solo voice, in relatively free rhythm.
26. An air or melody.

1. Used in praising a male performer/performance.
2. Used in connection with the attempts at realism.
3. Low in pitch, of the lowest pitch or range.
5. a movement or section of a work that comes before another movement or section of a work.
6. A male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
8. Is a drama in which most of the actors sing all or most of their parts.
10. A piece of music written for two performers.
14. runs, trills, and other florid decorations in vocal music
16. Is used in directions to performers.
19. A group of instrumentalists, esp. one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
20. The lowest female voice, The highest male voice.
22. Is used as an instruction to performers. It is the opposite of staccato, which indicates a shortening and consequent detaching of notes.
24. the highest male voice.