Across
- 1. song for a solo voice, designed for the singers vocal ability.
- 4. A theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person or situation
- 6. theatrical production combining drama, vocal and orchestral music, and sometimes dances
- 9. a soprano who has been specially trained to sing rapid passages.
- 10. the story that the opera is based on.
- 12. The presentation of an image on a surface especially a movie screen.
- 14. the part of the opera sung by a large group.
- 15. Variation and gradation in the volume of musical sound.
- 19. the male voice between the tenor and the bass voices
- 20. a group of performers on various musical instruments for playing music
- 21. the highest male voice.
- 23. the musical introduction to an opera.
- 26. a cheer of approval for the male singers.
- 27. what the conductor of the orchestra uses to lead an opera or musical.
Down
- 1. the lowest female voice
- 2. a song written for 2 voices.
- 3. The female voice which is between that of an alto and a soprano
- 5. Italian meaning to smoothly connect notes.
- 7. the instrumental introduction to a musical drama, shorter than an overture.
- 8. the highest female voice.
- 11. the text of an opera.
- 13. speech like declamatory vocal style used in conversation passages in the opera.
- 16. a musical instrument in which felt covered hammers operated from a keyboard
- 17. a direction in a musical score or part loud; with force opposed to a piano
- 18. meaning to make notes short.
- 22. cheer of approval for the female singers.
- 24. Italian meaning realism or the idea of taking events from real life
- 25. the lowest of the male voices