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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]
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2016 nursery rhymes: 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
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 ] (
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar. Many mezzo-sopranos have sung the piece. The songs are: [1] "Sea Slumber Song" by Roden Noel (approximately 4 minutes)
Paus' Hate Songs was published in 2014, and was included on Tora Augestad's and the Oslo Philharmonic's album Portraying Passion: Works by Weill/Paus/Ives (2018) with works by Paus, Kurt Weill and Charles Ives; it has received critical acclaim [1] [2] [3] and was awarded the Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy Award) for 2018 in the Classical ...
One Sweet Morning is a four-movement song cycle for mezzo-soprano solo and orchestra by the American composer John Corigliano. The work was jointly commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks .
A mezzo-soprano (Italian: [ˌmɛddzosoˈpraːno], lit. ' half soprano '), or mezzo (English: / ˈ m ɛ t s oʊ / MET-soh), is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e.