Opera Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. a song written for two voices.
  2. 2. Italian meaning to smoothly connect notes.
  3. 5. an adult male singing voice between tenor and bass
  4. 6. a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
  5. 9. a speechlike, declamatory vocal style that is used in the conversational passages in an opera.
  6. 13. the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
  7. 15. a voice, instrument, or part below the highest range and above tenor
  8. 16. Italian meaning realism or the idea of taking events from real life and using those ideas to make an opera or drama.range is from middle c to g above the staff
  9. 18. a theatrical production combining drama, vocal and orchestral music, costumes, scenery, and sometimes, dance.
  10. 20. an instrumental introduction to a musical drama, usually shorter than an overture; also, a short, independent composition.
  11. 21. a large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard
  12. 22. a cheer of approval for female opera singers.
  13. 24. a subject in which one excels
  14. 25. the part of an opera sung by a large group.
Down
  1. 1. the branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces.
  2. 3. short, constantly recurring musical phrase
  3. 4. an estimate or forecast of a future situation or trend based on a study of present ones.
  4. 7. The highest male voice whose range is from an e on the first line of the staff to a g above the staff on the treble clef. An important note is that the tenor sounds an octave lower than it is written.
  5. 8. an instrumental introduction to an opera, an ontario, or other stage work.
  6. 10. elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody, especially in operatic singing by a soprano.
  7. 11. a song for solo voice, often designed to show of a singer’s vocal ability
  8. 12. Italian meaning to make notes short, detached and separated.
  9. 14. what the conductor of the orchestra uses to lead an opera or musical. The score contains both the music and the vocal parts.
  10. 17. the highest of the four standard singing voices
  11. 19. Soprano Females voice which is between that of an alto and a soprano and whose
  12. 21. to carry out
  13. 22. a cheer of approval for male opera singers.
  14. 23. a voice, instrument, or sound of the lowest range,the lowest adult male singing voice.