Of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor.
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Examples for "countertenor"
Examples for "countertenor"
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Now the countertenor cry of Casimir Radon rode in above the tumult.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'Perched above the action is a shaman, sung by countertenor Andrew Watts'.
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Writer spoke with the Consul, an instrument maker named Carl Fudge, and with countertenor Earnest Murphy.
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It will suit Jigg sie's queer little countertenor.
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In one way it's clear what a countertenor is: it's a man who sings like a woman.
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He called Willie's number immediately, bracing himself for Lettie's voluminous alto voice.
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On surged the voices, bass, soprano, alto, tenor, in loud and mighty
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If man needs treble and alto, I hope he may get them.
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When Holly spoke again, her voice was layered with bass and alto.
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Following the fourth bong, Aunt Klara's alto bellowed up through the floorboards.
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Dev belts out hymns in his brassy alto while I flip pages.
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She began to sing a slow sad song in a husky alto.
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A moment later I was startled to hear an alto sax come in.
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From inside we heard the Widow's gentle, yet insistent alto voice.
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The former might be sung by baritone, but the latter requires an alto.
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Between an alto and a soprano it is about a fourth.
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Some of them change from soprano to alto and end by that route.
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Bobby Watson on saxes, mainly alto, is a former Art Blakey Jazz Messenger.
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I could hear Bettina's soft alto beckoning me from the dryer.
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Drusilla Osborn was first, then Lettie Burley, an alto, came next.
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For me, as an alto sax player, all jazz stems from Charlie Parker.
