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A 3 –A 5). In the lower and upper extremes, some mezzo-sopranos may extend down to the F below middle C (F 3) and as high as "high C" (C 6). [1] The mezzo-soprano voice (unlike the soprano voice) is strong in the middle register and weaker in the head register, resulting in a deeper tone than the soprano voice. [2]
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf is an eight-part song cycle written by Dominick Argento in 1974 for the English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker. [1] The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. The text of the songs comes from A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf , which was published in 1954. [ 2 ] (
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All of the songs were composed between 1954 and 1958. [1] The cycle is best suited for mezzo-soprano, although, the original program note from the cycle's 1959 premiere acknowledges that all of the songs may be sung by a baritone, except for "Hands, Eyes, and Heart", "which is a woman's song."
English mezzo-soprano cello 6 Music of Sighs: 2016 James Joyce: English mezzo-soprano ensemble 3 Drei Lieder nach Shakespeare: Three Songs After Shakespeare: 2016 Shakespeare: English soprano string quartet 3 Irish Phoenix: 2017 Irish female writers English soprano ensemble 7 Shravana: 2022 Buddhist texts Sanskrit mezzo-soprano cello and piano 5
Eleven Songs for Susan (2007), for mezzo-soprano & chamber orchestra; Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007), for voice & piano; Songs Old and New (2008), for soprano & orchestra; Four Sonnets of Shakespeare (2008), for tenor & piano; Sonnet 144 (Two Loves I Have) (2010), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, & piano
The album made her the fastest-selling mezzo-soprano to date [1] she became the first British classical crossover artist to have two number one albums in the same year. [2] Her second album, Second Nature , reached number 16 in the UK later on in 2004.
Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah was composed in 1942. Jeremiah is a programmatic work, following the Biblical story of the prophet Jeremiah. The third movement uses texts from the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible, sung by a mezzo-soprano. The work won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award for the best American work of ...