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A Musical voice is the singing role of a vocalist in a piece of music. Vocalists often specialize based on their vocal range. A Musical voice is also...
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| x name | x image | x Also Typed With | x Singers | x article |
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| x Lead vocals | Musical Performance Role | Uniqum | ||
| Wedlock | ||||
| Kaisa Vala | ||||
| x Contra-tenor | Musical Performance Role | |||
| x Mezzo-soprano | Musical Performance Role | Beyoncé | ||
| Gwen Stefani | ||||
| x Background | Musical Performance Role | |||
| x Contralto | Musical Performance Role | |||
| x Bass-Baritone | Musical Performance Role | Andy Gilmour | ||
| x Other | Musical Performance Role | |||
| x Sopranist |
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A sopranist (also, sopranista or male soprano) is a male classical singer who is able to sing in the vocal tessitura of a soprano usually through the use of falsetto vocal production. This voice type is a specific kind of countertenor. It should be...
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| x Baritenor |
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Baritenor is a slang word describing a male voice whose tessitura lies between the baritone and the tenor. The word is frequently used to describe one of the most common male music vocal types, rather a pop singer than a true operatic baritone with...
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| x Soprano |
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Musical Performance Role | Celine Dion |
A soprano is a singer with a voice range (using scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C4) from approximately (C4) to "high A" (A5) in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) or higher in operatic music. In four part...
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| Mariah Carey | ||||
| Kaisa Vala | ||||
| x Tenor | Musical Performance Role | Greg Colvin |
The tenor is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the A above (A4) in choral music, and up to high C (C5) in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B...
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A bass is a singer who sings in the lowest vocal range.
According to Grove Music Online, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the F below small C to the E above middle C (i.e., F2–E4), with a tessitura, or...
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| x Baritone |
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Musical Performance Role | Chris Maden |
Baritone (or barytone; French: baryton; German: Bariton; Italian: baritono) is the type of male voice that lies between bass and tenor. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek βαρυτονος, meaning 'deep (or heavy) sounding', music...
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| Tachibana Kli | ||||
| x Dramatic coloratura soprano | Musical Performance Role | |||
| x Lyric coloratura soprano | Musical Performance Role | |||
| x Coloratura Soprano | Musical Performance Role |
A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano who specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs and leaps. The term coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for...
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