Across
- 1. What a conductor uses to open an opera or musical, with orchestral and vocal parts.
- 3. A repeating theme throughout a musical composition, normally with a certain person, idea, or situation.
- 7. A long accompanied song for a solo voice.
- 9. When singing, it’s the part above all other singing voices
- 10. When a musician plays a note sharply and there’s space between the notes
- 11. The term used for how soft or loud you should play/sing
- 12. An introductory piece of music, mostly an opening to an act of an opera from the orchestra.
- 15. A female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto
- 17. When singing, it’s the part above a baritone, but below an alto
- 18. A group of singers is a ____
- 19. When singing, it’s the part above a tenor but below soprano.
- 20. How an opera singer sings to the whole audience
- 24. The text of an opera
- 25. Singing voice below a tenor, but higher than a bass.
- 26. When someone sings well at the end of the song you say this.
Down
- 2. Well thought out vocal melody, often sung by a soprano.
- 4. Sophisticated word for the beginning of an opera or piece of music
- 5. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
- 6. When you play softly, you’re playing ______
- 8. A group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
- 13. Meaning smooth connected notes
- 14. When two people are singing a song together it’s a ____
- 16. A speech-like vocal style used in the conversations of a opera.
- 21. A dramatic art form with one or more acts, and a genre of classical music.
- 22. When you play really loud, you’re playing _____
- 23. This is a genre in opera, a “realism” in the arts in the 19th century Italian opera.
- 25. The feminine version of saying bravo to a singer
- 26. The lowest singing pitch or range