Search results for "Alto (voice)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • than curved ones, and very few straight alto, and tenor saxophones have ... family consisted of sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass and ...
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  • | Vocal Duet || voice, pno || Commonly used in the art song, or Lieder. ... | Voice, Viola and Piano || sop, vla, pno || William Bolcom's ...
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  • Verbum bonum et suave (Sequence verse 3b, Alto I, Agnus Dei). In addition ... His late four-voice mass, Missa Maria zart, tentatively dated to around ...
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  • A castrato is a male, artificially produced soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto singer whose voice is artificially changed through castration before ...
    17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
  • the instrument, often in partnership with a voice. Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang ... and was usually employed in the usual alto/tenor/bass trio to support ...
    23 KB (3,406 words) - 17:59, 2 May 2023
  • common type, usually consisting of soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices, often ... treble or boy soprano) and men singing alto (in falsetto), also known ...
    22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 2023
  • :Opus 59: Six Songs for middle voice (1898) Pushkin and Apollon Maikov) for high voice (1897-1898) ([http://www ...
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  • a musical instrument, including the human voice. The term, however, is generally ... since prehistoric times. Though the human voice is likely to have been the ...
    26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
  • The bass clarinet has a characteristically deep, mellow sound. The ... Most alto and bass clarinets have an extra key to allow a low E♭ ...
    30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
  • film musicals, well known for her powerful voice and vocal range. She is one ... Merman was known for her powerful, belting alto voice, precise enunciation ...
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  • *Symphonische Gesänge for baritone or alto and orchestra op. 20. ... ===Songs for voice and piano=== *Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen ...
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  • ** Alto horn ** Baritone horn * Trumpet * Cornet * Flumpet ... have occasionally been used as the alto or low soprano voice in a ...
    12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
  • many pieces exploiting her versatile and unique voice. In 1951, Berio ... a recording of Cathy Berberian's voice. In 1968, Berio completed ...
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  • not unlike that of a vocal chorus: high voice, mid-high voice, mid-low ... quot; period from 1650-1950, the bass voice was more often than not, ...
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  • the oboe has a clear and penetrating voice. The timbre of the oboe is ... Cor anglais, or English horn, the tenor (or alto) member of the family. A transposing ...
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  • one of the voices playing alone. A second voice then enters and plays the ... back and forth between the upper and lower voice. The best-known example of ...
    30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
  • At the age of 15, Marian began voice lessons with Mary Saunders Patterson ... foreign languages and critics found her voice lacking. This discouraging ...
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  • The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is an alto string ... toned and earthy. The viola's mellow voice is frequently used for playing ...
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  • a jazz instrument and giving it its unique voice and he is rightly credited ... Along with his near contemporary, alto-saxophone player Benny Carter ...
    10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 2022
  • Though she had a unique freshness to her voice at that time, she was far ... was multi-instrumentalist Edgar Sampson (alto and baritone saxophones, violin ...
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