Across
- 4. composer of La serva padrona
- 5. purpose served by opera buffa plots
- 9. German comic opera with spoken dialogue
- 10. city where Neapolitan comic opera originated
- 12. typical accompaniment for home songs
- 15. French strophic song genre
- 16. accompaniment used in simple recitative of La serva padrona
- 17. comic segments between acts of serious opera
- 18. style of rapid dialogue in Neapolitan comic opera
Down
- 1. first book printed in North America (1640)
- 2. how many acts in an opera buffa
- 3. Gluck opera from 1767
- 6. principal Lutheran sacred medium
- 7. city where Metastasio was court poet in 1729
- 8. medium for British printed ballads
- 11. favored aria form in opera seria
- 13. time period in which comic opera plots were centered
- 14. German song with simple expressive accompaniment