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Contralto

noun
(pl. contralti, contraltos)
1.
A woman singer having a contralto voice.
2.
The lowest female singing voice.  Synonym: alto.





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"Contralto" Quotes from Famous Books



... utterance of the romance in Otello—the tone with which she gave the words "Sul mio sasso," in the Capuletti—is ringing in my memory yet. Her lower tones were absolutely miraculous. Her voice embraced three complete octaves, extending from the contralto D to the D upper soprano, and, though sufficiently powerful to have filled the San Carlos, executed, with the minutest precision, every difficulty of vocal composition-ascending and descending scales, cadences, or fiorituri. In the final ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... hospitably entertained by Major and Mrs. Powell, to whose kind care we were committed by Colonel Gentry, who, being a bachelor, had no accommodation for ladies. It was very delightful, in the centre of a prairie wilderness, to meet with ladies, and to hear the rich contralto voice of Miss Powell, their daughter of eighteen, who promised to be a singer ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker


Words linked to "Contralto" :   Marian Anderson, vocalizer, vocalist, vocaliser, low, Anderson, Schumann-Heink, low-pitched, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, singer, alto, singing voice


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