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According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), the term "alto" refers to singers whose voice encompasses the pitches of the notes f to d″ (see Helmholtz pitch notation). The singer of this voice type is more often described, for a female, as a contralto; for a male, as a countertenor (or in early French music as haute-contre) or a ...
The term tenor 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 tessitura and timbre of the voice. For classical and operatic singers, their voice type determines the roles they will sing and is a primary method of categorization.
American singer, songwriter and dancer James P. Johnson [19] 1894 1955 American pianist and composer Scott Joplin [20] 1868 1917 American composer and pianist Carole King [21] 1942 (living) American singer, songwriter, and musician Dimash Kudaibergen [22] 1994 (living) Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist W. A. Mozart [23] [3 ...
The singer in question was a pupil of Moreschi's, Domenico Mancini, such a successful imitator of his teacher's voice that even Lorenzo Perosi, Direttore Perpetuo of the Sistine Choir from 1898 to 1956 and a strenuous opponent of the practice of castrato singers, thought he was a castrato.
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It is a type of tenor voice with a compass not much wider than that of the coeval baritenor, but able to sustain far higher tessiture.It means that the basic range remained substantially the classic one, from C 3 to C 5: only the best baritenors, however, were able to reach up to such heights and used to pass anyway to the falsettone (or strengthened falsetto) register [2] about G 4; for ...
The voice takes on a resonant masculine quality before its pitch drops, resulting in a liminal stage wherein the boy may sing in a high register with a unique timbre. This brief period of high vocal range and unique color forms much of the ground for the use of the boy soprano in both liturgical and secular music in the Western world and ...
The Whitney songbook (much like the songbooks of other divas like Mariah, Celine, and Adele) is challenging for pretty much any singer. But of course, the season’s power-belters, like Parijita ...