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3. Loud.
7. The highest in the range above tenor.
9. The highest of the four standard singing voices.
10. Used in praising a performer.
12. An extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes a ballet.
13. The text or words of an opera.
15. An introduction to something more substantial.
16. Realism in the arts.
17. An elaborate vocal melody sung by sopranos.
18. Orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments.
19. A performance by two people usually singers.

1. A singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range.
2. Smooth and connected.
4. A voice or instrument lowest the musics volume.
5. A large keyboard instrument with metal strings.
6. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work.
7. An elaborate melody in an opera.
8. A male voice or voices that are between tenor and bass.
11. Middle.
12. A group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
14. Musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note.
17. A large group of singers.