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- 3. To be performed loudly
- 4. Used in praising a female performer
- 8. Music a recurring short melodic phrase or theme used to suggest a character, thing, etc
- 9. 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
- 11. An air or melody
- 13. Low in pitch; of the lowest pitch range
- 15. A lyric soprano of high range
- 17. A group of instrumentalists, esp. one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
- 18. With each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.
- 19. Showing a response to a stimulus.
- 20. The act, process, or result of projecting
- 24. An orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition
- 26. A musical composition for two voices or instruments
- 27. Orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments
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- 1. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
- 2. The highest of the four standard singing voices
- 5. A female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
- 6. Play notes that are smooth and connected
- 7. Used in praising a performer
- 10. The text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition
- 12. The lowest female voice
- 14. A male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor or bass
- 16. Variation and gradation in the volume of musical sound
- 20. A musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings
- 21. An extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment
- 22. Part of a song that repeats
- 23. Realism in the arts
- 25. The adult male voice intermediate between the bass and the alto or countertenor