Music

• Opera


  became increasingly popular during the Romantic period. It is a musical composition having all or most of its text set to music with arias, recitative, choruses, duets, trios, etc. sung to orchestral accompaniment
• Libretto


  the text of an opera. librettist and the composer work closely together to tell the story.
• Score

  the book that the composer and librettist put together. The score has all the musical notes, words and ideas to help the performers tell the story.
• Recitative


  Declamatory singing, used in the prose parts and dialogue of opera. Different roles in operas are created taking into account different types of voices. Each role requires a different type of singer, not only able to sing a given vocal range but also with certain voice characteristics, color and power
• Tenor


  highest male voice
• Baritone

  Middle male voice, lies between Bass and Tenor voices. It is the common male voice.
• Bass


  lowest male voice
• Soprano


  highest female voice
• Coloratura

    highest soprano voice
• Lyric


  bright and full sound
• Dramatic


  darker full sound
• Mezzo-Soprano


  most common female voice; strong middle voice, tone is darker or deeper than the soprano
• Contralto

  lowest female voice and most unique among female
• ACapella

    one or more singers performing without instrumental accompaniment.
• Cantabile


  In a singing style
• Capo


  Head, the beginning
• Capo


  closing section appended to a movement or song.
• Dolce


  sweetly
• Falsetto

    a weaker and more airy voice usually in the higher pitch ranges.
• Glissando

  sliding quickly between 2 notes/
• Passagio


  parts of a singing voice where register transitions occur.
• Rubato 


  slight speeding up or slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist.
• Tessitura

  the most comfortable singing range of a singer.
• Vibrato

    rapidly repeated slight pitch variation during a sustained note, to give a richer & more varied sound.