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Pages in category "Singers with a four-octave vocal range" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Pages in category "Singers with a six-octave or greater vocal range" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Vocal range plays such an important role in classifying singing voices into voice types that sometimes the two terms are confused with one another. A voice type is a particular kind of human singing voice perceived as having certain identifying qualities or characteristics; vocal range being only one of those characteristics.
When the terms soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, and bass are used as descriptors of non-classical voices, they are applied more loosely than they would be to those of classical singers and generally refer only to the singer's perceived vocal range. The following is a list of singers in country, popular music, jazz, heavy ...
For classical and operatic singers, their voice type determines the roles they will sing and is a primary method of categorization. In classical music, a "pure" contralto is considered the rarest type of female voice. [3] In non-classical music, singers are primarily defined by their genre and their gender, not their vocal range. [4]
The general vocal range of an adult female soprano is C 4 –C 6 (highlighted), with notes unreachable by an average Treble marked in red (B 5 –C 6).. Most trebles have a comfortable range from the A below "middle C" (A 3, 220 Hz) to the F one and a half octaves above "middle C" (F 5, 698 Hz), [10] roughly corresponding to an adult male baritone range, up one octave.
The term baritone 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.