opera crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones.
  2. 4. used in praising a performer.
  3. 6. a notch, scratch.
  4. 7. the lowest female voice
  5. 10. a short instrumental composition.
  6. 11. A male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
  7. 15. a melodic passage or phrase.
  8. 16. the highest female singing voice.
  9. 18. shortened or detached when played or sung.
  10. 20. a voice or voice part intermediate in compass.
  11. 24. a passage in a musical composition.
  12. 25. a school of composition that originated in Italian opera.
Down
  1. 1. an elaborate melody sung solo with accompaniment, as in an opera or oratorio.
  2. 2. a singer with such a voice.
  3. 3. the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition
  4. 5. a group of people that sing in unison.
  5. 8. a group of performers on various musical instruments
  6. 9. a scheme or plan.
  7. 11. used to express performance of a women
  8. 12. The lowest pitch or range.
  9. 13. A lyric soprano of high range who specializes in such music.
  10. 14. variation and graduation in the volume of musical sound Forte something in which a person excels in.
  11. 17. to plan secretly.
  12. 19. a performance of 1
  13. 21. an independent piece of similar character
  14. 22. a group of 2 singers or 2 instruments.
  15. 23. soft or subdued.