Originally, he had used the standard four vocal soloists - soprano,alto, tenor, bass - but he recast the bass part for baritone, as magnificently sung here.
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In the chorus's second half, though, the singer sinks back to her lowalto, and the sovereign pedal returns.
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In this harmonically very unpretentious movement the composer achieves genuine poetry through understatement and delicate sculpting, especially of the sinuous line for soloalto.
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This is represented by bass, tenor andaltoduets, respectively.
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Then come a pair of two-bar interludes, respectively for two sopranos and two altos.
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Thealtopart, however, reveals none of these symptoms.
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Although only a bass line is given, there are blank staves with clefs for three upper voices, two soprano and onealto.
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From this he went to chorales; first he added the basses to them himself, and they had to invent thealtoand tenor.
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If buffoaltoparts were so numerous in the seventeenth century, how should we cast buffo roles in the twenty-first century?
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This fact of course does not prove that thealtoversion served as the model for the others.
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The haute-contre line was sung by high tenors, rather than female altos or countertenors.
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In male singers and altos, who are trained according to the western classical opera tradition, an important acoustic characteristic is the singer's formant.
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In the two central choral movements and, more prominently, in the second movement the composer includes short solo passages, variously for soloalto, paired sopranos and paired altos.
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To hear these searingaltoriffs lumbering along an octave lower than they were meant to sound creates an effect of sheer struggle, more sub- than superhuman.
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At the present time we have thisalto- gether abnormal flood of cases in our list.
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