Aria • Aria di sorbetto • Arioso • Bel canto • Breeches role • Burletta • Cabaletta • Cadenza • Cantabile • Castrato • Cavatina • Chest register • Claque • Coloratura • Comprimario • Convenienze • Coup de glotte • Da capo • Diva • Fach • Falsetto • Fioritura • Gesamtkunstwerk • Head register • Intermezzo • Kammersänger • Leitmotif • Libretto • Literaturoper • Melodrama • Melodramma • Monodrama • Messa di voce • Opera house • Passaggio • Portamento • Prima donna • Prompter • Recitative • Regietheater • Répétiteur • Sitzprobe • Spinto • Sprechgesang • Squillo • Stagione • Surtitles • Tessitura • Timbre • Vibrato An aria (Italian for air; plural: arie or arias in common usage) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. ... The Aria di sorbetto, or sherbet aria, was a convention of Italian opera in the early nineteenth century. ... Below is a list of terms used in musical terminology which are likely to occur on printed or sheet music. ... The term Bel Canto may refer to: Belcanto, a vocal technique; or Bel Canto, a novel by Ann Patchett. ... A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role) is a role in which an actress appears in male clothes (breeches being tight-fitting knee-length pants, the standard male garment at the time breeches roles were introduced). ... A burletta (Italian, meaning little joke), also sometimes burla or burlettina, is a musical term generally denoting a brief comic Italian (or, later, English) opera. ... A Cabaletta is form of aria within 19th century Italian opera. ... In music, a cadenza (Italian for cadence) is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists, usually in a free rhythmic style, and often allowing for virtuosic display. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Musical terminology. ... A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity. ... For the piece of music known as Cavatina or Theme from The Deer Hunter, see Cavatina (song) Cavatina (Italian diminutive of cavata, the producing of tone from an instrument, plural cavatine) is a musical term, originally a short song of simple character, without a second strain or any repetition of... The chest register is generalized to be the range of vocal notes below middle C (C4). ... A report in The Etude of July 1931 on the Vienna Opera House banning claquing Claque (French for clapping) is, in its origin, a term which refers to an organized body of professional applauders in French theatres. ... Coloratura is an old word meaning colouring. ... A Comprimario is a secondary role in an opera or singing. ... Convenienze (literally, conveniences) were the rules relating to the ranking of singers (primo, secondo, comprimario) in 19th-century Italian opera, and the number of scenes, arias etc. ... Coup de glotte or shock of the glottis is a term used in the theory of singing technique to describe a particular method of emitting or opening a note by an abrupt physical mechanism of the glottis, or false vocal chords (membranes situated above the true vocal chords in the... The da capo aria was a musical form prevalent in the Baroque era. ... A diva is a great female opera singer, a prima donna. ... The German Fach (pl. ... Falsetto is a singing technique that produces sounds that are pitched higher than the singers normal range, in the treble range. ... Fioritura is the name given to the flowery, embellished vocal line found in many arias from nineteenth-century opera. ... Look up Gesamtkunstwerk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The head register is generalized to be the range of vocal notes above middle C (C4). ... InterMezzo is a distributed file system written for Linux, distributed with a GPL licence. ... Kammersänger or Kammersängerin (or Ks. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Antonio Ghislanzoni, nineteenth century Italian librettist. ... Literaturoper (literature opera, plural Literaturopern) is opera with music composed for a pre-existing text, as opposed to an opera with a libretto written specifically for the work. ... Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ... A Melodramma is an Italian term for opera which was used in the 19th century. ... A monodrama (also Solospiel in German; solo play) is a theatrical melodrama in which there is only one character. ... Messa di voce (Italian, placing the voice) is a musical technique that involves a gradual crescendo and decrescendo while sustaining a single pitch. ... New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera Bolshoi Theatre. ... Passaggio is a singing term used to describe the pitch range at which a singers voice breaks or switches over from ones chest voice (natural singing voice) to ones head voice or falsetto (generally for males). ... Portamento is a musical term currently used to mean pitch bending or sliding, and in 16th century polyphonic writing refers to a type of musical ornamentation. ... The prompter in an opera house gives the singers the opening words of each phrase a few seconds early. ... Recitative, a form of composition often used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas (and occasionally in operettas and even musicals), is melodic speech set to music, or a descriptive narrative song in which the music follows the words. ... Regietheater (in English, directors opera; more commonly producers opera) is a term that refers to the modern (essentially post-WWII) practice of allowing a director or producer such freedom in devising the way a given opera is staged that not only may the composers specific stage directions... Répétiteur (Fr. ... Sitzprobe is a term used in opera and musical theater to describe a seated rehearsal where the singers sing with the orchestra, focusing attention on integrating the two groups. ... Spinto is a vocal term used to characterize a soprano or tenor voice of a weight between lyric and dramatic that is capable of handling large dramatic climaxes at moderate intervals. ... Sprechgesang and sprechstimme (German for spoken-song and spoken-voice) are musical terms used to refer to an expressionist vocal technique that falls between singing and speaking. ... Squillo (Italian for ring) is a resonant, trumpet-like ringing sound in voice of opera singers. ... Stagione (Italian season) is an organizational system for presenting opera, often used by large companies. ... Supertitles or surtitles are commonly used in opera or other musical performances. ... In music, tessitura (Italian: texture) is a range of pitches compared to the instrument for which it was intended to be used. ... In music, timbre, or sometimes timber, (from Fr. ... Vibrato is a musical effect where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound. ...