She is charmed above all by the very lowest notes (referred to in the jargon of singing as the chest voice) of mezzos and contraltos.
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That kind of life develops the bass voices, thecontraltovoices, the tenor voices.
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A demanding work, it requires 14 soloists (three sopranos, onecontralto, two tenors, four baritones, and four basses).
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Singers in this class, like the coloratura contraltos, are rare.
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Most of these employ a female voice, usually either a soprano or mezzo-soprano, but twocontraltoversions are available.
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Most often the character is an adolescent or a very young man, sung by a mezzo-soprano orcontralto.
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The opera is scored for one soprano, onecontralto, and one tenor, two saxophones, and orchestra.
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So although a singer in another genre might have a range equivalent to acontralto, they would not have a similar sound.
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In 1977, she took over as the company's principalcontralto, playing ten of these leading roles with the company until its closure in 1982.
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She also occasionally played some of the largercontraltoroles.
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Her use of hercontraltoregister was likened to dipping into a deep, mysterious well to scoop up a trove of buried riches.
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Her voice is deepcontraltowith about an octave and a half range.
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Though present in jazz and country music, there were fewcontraltosingers in popular music at the time.
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A true operaticcontraltois extremely rare, so much so that often roles intended for contraltos are performed by mezzo-sopranos.
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The collection was completed in 1841, and initially composed for tenor, and mezzo-soprano, later arranged for baritone,contralto, or soprano, and piano.
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