Across
- 2. a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
- 6. the highest of the four standard singing voices.
- 7. the course of a thought or mean
- 10. the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
- 13. a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation
- 15. A large group of organized singers.
- 16. a group of instrumentalists combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections they play classical music.
- 18. the presentation of an image on a surface, or a movie screen.
- 19. 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.
- 20. a melody sung solo with accompaniment.
- 22. high range in soprano
- 24. a performance done by two people.
- 26. variation or gradation in the volume of the sounds in music
- 27. praising a performer.
Down
- 1. a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.
- 3. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
- 4. orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments.
- 5. an introductory piece of music, most commonly an orchestral opening to an act of an opera, the first movement of a suite, or a piece preceding a fugue.
- 8. a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
- 9. a passage performed or marked to be performed loudly
- 11. praising a female performer.
- 12. an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition.
- 14. with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.
- 17. the lowest female voice.
- 21. A male voice between tenor and bass.
- 23. realism in the arts. Late 19th-century Italian opera.
- 25. soft
- 27. lowest pitch of range.