Opera Scenario 1 Crossword

3. -an elaborate melody sung solo with accompaniment, as in an opera or oratorio.
4. -smooth and connected; without breaks between the successive tones
6. -a way to say well done or used in praising a performer.
8. -an orchestral composition forming the prelude or introduction to a piece of music
12. -a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viola class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions
13. -the adult male voice intermediate between the bass and the alto or countertenor.
14. -a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
17. -Soprano: the female singing voice between contralto and soprano
18. -runs, trills, and other florid decorations in vocal music or a lyric soprano of high range who specializes in such music.
20. -the highest singing voice in women and boys.
21. -to make your voice heard from afar without yelling
23. -low in pitch; of the lowest pitch or range
24. -a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
25. -a direction in a musical score or part; loudly

1. -a written form of a musical composition
2. -a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings it has eighty-eight keys
4. -the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
5. -a relatively short, independent instrumental composition, free in form and resembling an improvisation
7. -shortened and detached when played or sung
8. -an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, which usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
9. -a musical composition for two voices or instruments
10. -of or pertaining to the range of volume of musical sound
11. pertaining to or of the nature of recital
15. -the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful.
16. the plan, scheme, or main story of a music piece
19. -the second highest of the four parts of a mixed vocal chorus, or the voices or persons singing this part (the highest male voice; countertenor and
22. -a group of persons singing in unison or (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers.
24. -a way to say well done or used in praising a female performer.
26. lowest female voice; contralto)