Opera Crossword Group A

1. An instrument which is struck by hammers to make a sound.
3. A voice, instrument, or part below the highest range and above tenor, in particular.
6. Used to express approval when a performer or other person has done something well.
7. A group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets, flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
9. A dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
10. An independent piece of similar character.
11. A low pitch sound.
12. The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an opera.
13. The plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
16. A type of classical female singing whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices.
20. Indicates musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.
23. A large, valved brass instrument shaped like a trumpet or coiled in oval form, used especially in military bands.
24. Something you excel in.
26. A written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages.

1. An action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.
2. A composition usually in four or more parts written for a large number of singers.
4. The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
5. A musical composition for two voices or instruments.
6. Used interjectionally in applauding a woman.
8. The uppermost part or voice.
14. A melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation.
15. Elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody, esp. in operatic singing by a soprano.
17. Music cut short crisply.
18. 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.
19. The adult male voice intermediate between the bass and the alto or countertenor.
21. Realism in the arts, esp. late 19th-century Italian opera.
22. Variation and gradation in the volume of musical sound.
25. An elaborate melody sung solo with accompaniment, as in an opera or oratorio.