Soprano
Type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.
- Soprano500 related topics
Boy soprano
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.
Castrato
A castrato (Italian, plural: castrati) is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.
Countertenor
A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.
Voice type
This article focuses on voice classification within classical music.
This article focuses on voice classification within classical music.
Women are typically divided into three groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto.
Vocal range
Range of pitches that a human voice can phonate.
Range of pitches that a human voice can phonate.
Women are typically divided into three main groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto.
SATB
Initialism that describes the scoring of compositions for choirs, and also choirs of instruments.
Initialism that describes the scoring of compositions for choirs, and also choirs of instruments.
The initials are for the voice types: S for soprano, A for alto, T for tenor and B for bass.
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
The opera's story is set in the mythical empire of the Southeastern Islands and involves five principal characters: the Emperor (tenor), the Empress (soprano), her Nurse (mezzo-soprano), Barak, a lowly dyer (bass-baritone), and the Dyer's Wife (dramatic soprano).
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
For example, among men, there are bass, bass-baritone, baritone, baritenor, tenor and countertenor (ranging from E2 to C#7 and higher), and among women, contralto, alto, mezzo-soprano and soprano (ranging from F3 to C6 and higher).
Staff (music)
Set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
Set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
Four-part SATB vocal settings, especially in hymnals, use a divisi notation on a two-staff system with soprano and alto voices sharing the upper staff and tenor and bass voices on the lower staff.