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Noun Concept
Categories: Pitch (music), Musical terminology, Choral music, Voice types
EN
alto  Alto vocals  Kontralto
EN
The pitch range of the lowest female voice WordNet 3.0
English:
voice
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The pitch range of the lowest female voice WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian, historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. Wikipedia
Musical term that has several possible interpretations. Wikipedia Disambiguation
A musical term meaning second highest musical or vocal type Wikipedia Disambiguation
Voice range between soprano and tenor in choral music Wikidata
A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody. Wiktionary
Musical part. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
pitch
voice
voice
PART OF
SATB
HAS KIND
contralto
light mezzo-soprano
DERIVATION
alto
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Otto's encyclopedia
Encyclopedic Lexicon
DIFFERENT FROM
contralto
alto
INSTRUMENT
voice
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
alto
Wikipedia
EN
alto
Wikidata
EN
alto
Wiktionary
EN
alto
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
Alto (voice), Alto vocals, Kontralto

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