A report on Soprano and Choir

Soprano vocal range (C4–C6) notated on the treble staff and on piano keyboard in green with dot marking middle C

Evensong rehearsal in the quire of York Minster, showing carved choirstalls

Egyptian Alexandria Jewish choir of Rabbin Moshe Cohen at Samuel Menashe synagogue, Alexandria, Egypt

The boychoir Cantores Minores in the Helsinki Cathedral in 2013

Lambrook School choir in the 1960s, a typical boys' school choir of the time

Relief, now in Athens, showing Dionysus with actresses (possibly from The Bacchae) carrying masks and drums

Church singing, Tacuinum Sanitatis Casanatensis (14th century)

Luca della Robbia's Cantoria, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music.

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Adult mixed choir (with male and female voices). This is perhaps the most common and dominant type, usually consisting of soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices, often abbreviated as SATB. Often one or more voices is divided into two, e.g., SSAATTBB, where each voice is divided into two parts, and SATBSATB, where the choir is divided into two semi-independent four-part choirs. Occasionally baritone voice is also used (e.g., SATBarB), often sung by the higher basses. In smaller choirs with fewer men, SAB, or Soprano, Alto, and Baritone arrangements allow the few men to share the role of both the tenor and bass in a single part.

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The general vocal range of an adult female soprano is C4–C6 (highlighted), with notes unreachable by an average Treble marked in red (B5–C6).

Boy soprano

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A boy soprano (British and especially North American English) or boy treble (only British English) is a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range, a range that is often still called the treble voice range (in North America too) when talking about children.

Early breaking of boys' voices due to puberty becoming earlier in recent times is causing a serious problem for choirmasters.

Alto

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The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: altus), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range.

In 4-part voice leading alto is the second highest part, sung in choruses by either low women's or high men's voices.

In SATB four-part mixed chorus, the alto is the second highest vocal range, above the tenor and bass and below the soprano.

On these organ stops, some of the knobs have numbers indicating the length in feet of the longest (the lowest note) organ pipe of the stop

Glossary of music terminology

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A variety of musical terms are likely to be encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.

mezzo-soprano : A female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above middle C. Mezzo-sopranos generally have a darker vocal tone than sopranos, and their vocal range is between that of a soprano and that of a contralto.

vocal score or piano-vocal score : A music score of an opera, musical, or a vocal or choral composition with orchestra (like oratorio or cantata) where the vocal parts are written out in full but the accompaniment is reduced to two staves and adapted for playing on piano