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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] The term mezzo-soprano was developed in relation to classical and operatic voices, where the classification is based not merely on the singer's vocal range but also on the ...
Paus' Hate Songs is based on the poem "Women: A Hate Song" published by Parker in Vanity Fair in 1916 [5] and subsequent poems that have been described as "a photo-book of New York with the female caricatures that Parker abhorred or despised, notably idle bourgeois ladies, who were the object of patriarchal worship as angelic domestic creatures ...
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 ] (
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 song was a hit in the UK for Welsh singer Donald Peers, whose version lasted 21 weeks in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 3 in March 1969. [ 21 ] Barcarolle, Tales of Hoffmann has been recounted by many first class passengers on the RMS Titanic as the final piece of music played on April 14th 1912 at the after dinner concert.
"Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" is a popular mezzo-soprano aria from Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson and Delilah, known in English as "Softly awakes my heart", or more literally "My heart opens itself to your voice". It is sung by Delilah in act 2 as she attempts to seduc
A lot of singers listed here clearly do not belong to the Mezzo-Soprano vocal fach.Leona Lewis is Light Lyric Soprano, Jennifer Hudson is a Spinto Soprano, Whitney Houston for most of her career was a Spinto Soprano and only through aging and damage became a Mezzo, Aretha Franklin is a Falcon Soprano, Taylor Swift is a Light Lyric Soprano, Michelle Williams is a Soprano as well.
Trois mélodies (Three Songs) is a 1916 song cycle for voice and piano by Erik Satie. One of Satie's rare excursions in mélodies (French art songs ), it lasts under four minutes in performance. The composer's first English-language biographer, Rollo H. Myers, thought this work contained "the essence of Satie the ironist, the wit, and the ...