It would not have occurred to her that it was curious for a female to sing bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo, soprano and coloratura as she pleased.

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

In this arrangement the soprano and alto doublings have been rewritten to avoid changing instruments.

Their vocal range was higher than that of the uncastrated adult male ( see soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, sopranist, countertenor and contralto ).

Instruments made according to an older pitch standard, used principally in wind-band music, include Db piccolo, soprano flute ( the primary instrument, equivalent to today's concert C flute ), F alto flute, and Bb bass flute.

Recordings of three vocalists were spliced together to get the effect — a soprano, an alto, and a hog caller ).

* M is for Man, Music, Mozart ( 1991 ) ( texts by the composer, Jeroen van der Linden, Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo ), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano ( TV score ; may be performed as a concert work with one additional song )

For the main articles, see soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, countertenor and castrato.

The particular choice and number of instruments derives from the registers of the human voice: soprano, alto, tenor and bass.

In the string quartet, two violins play the soprano and alto vocal registers, the viola plays the tenor register and the cello plays the bass register.

The primary ( military band ) saxophone family alternates instruments in B and E. The other (" orchestral ') family patented by Sax, alternating instruments in C and F, has always been marginal, although some manufacturers tried to popularise the soprano in C ( or C soprano saxophone ), the alto in F ( or mezzo-soprano saxophone ), and the tenor in C ( or C melody saxophone ) early in the twentieth century.

The core of Lacy's activities from the 1970s to the 1990s was his sextet: his wife, singer / violinist Irene Aebi, soprano / alto saxophonist Steve Potts, pianist Bobby Few, bassist

It is his Stabat Mater ( 1736 ), however, for male soprano, male alto, string orchestra and basso continuo, which is his best known sacred work.

This is perhaps the most common type, usually consisting of soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices, often abbreviated as SATB.

* Female choirs, usually consisting of soprano and alto voices, two parts in each, often abbreviated as SSAA, or as soprano I, soprano II, and alto, abbreviated SSA.

Before that, the vocal virtuosity, not range, was the priority, with soprano parts rarely extending above a high A ( Handel, for example, only wrote one role extending to a high C ), though the castrato Farinelli was alleged to possess a top D ( his lower range was also extraordinary, extending to tenor C ).

For instance a soprano and a mezzo-soprano may have a similar range, but their tessituras will lie in different parts of that range.

Additionally, although originally intended to replace the oboe and the bassoon, the practical ranges of the corresponding sarrusophones, the soprano and bass, as per famed band conductor Edwin Franko Goldman and organologist Anthony Baines, did not lend themselves to proper playing of oboe and bassoon parts, especially in orchestra transcriptions for wind band.

Choral music most commonly divides vocal parts into high and low voices within each sex ( SATB, or soprano, alto, tenor, and bass ).

His singing voice was also exceptional, and he was said to be able to sing operatic parts from baritone to soprano range.

In music, boys ' voices, before they ' break ' being of a soprano register ( specifically known as treble ) unlike adult men ( in a choir usually tenor and bass ), have been most sought-after, especially where female voices were considered inappropriate as often in church and certain theatrical music-this even led to the practice of physically trying to prevent their ' angelical ' voices ever to break by surgically cutting short the hormonal drive to manhood: for centuries, castrato singers, who coupled adult strength and experience with a treble register, starred in contratenor parts, mainly in operatic styles.

Many parts in the coloratura soprano repertoire extend beyond " high C " and often extend up to high F ( F6 ).

It is scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and a symphonic orchestra, and is structured in three parts.

The soprano and bass line became more important to the texture than the inner voices, if they existed at all as independent parts ; functional tonality began to develop ; composers treated dissonance more freely than before ; and dramatic contrasts between groupings of voices and instruments became increasingly common.

Typically, the double-reeded versions ( Marche, Abruzzo, Latium, Campania, southern Basilicata and parts of Sicily and southern Calabria ) will have a soprano chanter on the right and a bass chanter on the left ( called, respectively, " ritta " and " manga " — meaning ' right ' and ' left ' — in the Ciociaro tradition ) with an alto drone ( bordone being the generic name ); but as many as three drones, the other tuned above and below the basic chord can be used, or, in the case of the Marches tradition, no drones at all.

The work was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 28 March 1896 with Evelina Carrera, Giuseppe Borgatti ( who replaced Alfonso Garulli at the eleventh hour ) and Mario Sammarco in the leading parts of soprano, tenor and baritone respectively.

The work is scored for four vocal soloists ( bass / baritone, tenor, alto, soprano ), full symphony orchestra ( including trombones, ophicleide, organ ), and a large chorus singing usually in four, but occasionally eight or three ( women only ) parts.

Maria Malibran ( a famous mezzo-soprano who often sang soprano parts ) starred in the premiere, but she ignored the censoring revisions ( vil bastarda – " vile bastard " became donna vile ) and the city banned further performances.

This version included a choir and vocal parts for soprano and mezzo-soprano.

They are made up of 20 boys aged 9-13, who sing the soprano part, and many adults who sing the other parts.

* voices: solo quartet ( soprano, alto, tenor, and bass ), 4 mixed choirs, children's choir, all divided into as many as 37 voice parts at one point in the work

She went with his company to New Orleans, where her voice, which had been strained by the soprano parts assigned to her, suddenly failed.

Her singing of the more lyrical Wagnerian soprano parts such as Sieglinde, Eva, Elsa and Elisabeth was unsurpassed in its day and probably since.

By emphasizing the soprano line, it also made the other choral parts less interesting to sing.

After singing small parts on the stage, for example in Mozart's Magic Flute at Prague in 1866, and studies under Heinrich Laube in Leipzig, Lehmann made her proper debut in 1870 in Berlin as a light soprano in Meyerbeer's Das Feldlager in Schlesien.

It was used by Richard Strauss in his Sinfonia Domestica, where included in the music are parts for four saxophones, including a soprano saxophone in C. It is also used in Maurice Ravel's " Bolero " and has a featured solo directly following the tenor saxophone's solo.

Don Chisciotte was a mix of ballet and opera buffa, and the lead female roles in L ' amore innocente were designed to contrast and highlight the different traditions of operatic writing for soprano, even borrowing stylistic flourishes from opera-seria in the use of coloratura in what was a short pastoral comedy more in keeping with a Roman Intermezzo.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

Women's roles were listed as either " soprano " or " contralto ", while men's roles were listed as either " tenor " or " bass ".

Other new cast members were Emma Howson and George Power in the romantic roles, who were improvements on the romantic soprano and tenor in The Sorcerer.

Before he had the soprano vibraphone, he used song bells as an extended range of the standard vibraphone ; the song bells were similar in timbre, but soprano vibraphone was naturally the more ideal extension of the standard vibraphone.

One of the first pieces composed during the period of Bridge's tutelage was the Quatre Chansons Françaises for soprano and orchestra, though it appears that Britten's abilities as an orchestrator were essentially self-taught rather than learned from Bridge.

Historically, women were not allowed to sing in the Church so the soprano roles were given to young boys and later to castrati — men whose larynxes had been fixed in a pre-adolescent state through the process of castration.

Castrati were already prominent by this date in Italian church choirs, replacing both falsettists and trebles ; the last soprano falsettist singing in Rome, Juan de Santos ( a Spaniard ), died in 1652.

The label's first releases were traditional " hot " jazz and boogie woogie, and the label's first hit was a performance of " Summertime " by soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, which Bechet had been unable to record for the established companies.

Nearby on Highmount were the palatial summer homes of coloratura soprano Amelita Galli-Curci and Shakespearean actress Julia Marlowe.

Later, single reed mouthpieces were developed which resemble alto or soprano saxophone mouthpieces.

Morgenstern's best known works are the Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs, 1905 ), eight of which were used in a song cycle by Jan Koetsier for soprano and tuba, five in a song cycle by Siegfried Strohbach for male choir a cappella.

They were joined by the soprano saxophone of Linsey Wellman on three tracks, including their version of " Take Me to the River ", and harmonium playing by Amika Kushwaha on the last track, " The Question ".

He gave the first of his many concerts in the United States in 1948 with Bernac, and met soprano Leontyne Price who sang his chansons, and composer Samuel Barber whose Mélodies passagères were created in Paris by their dedicatees, Bernac and Poulenc, in February 1952.

The women soloists were Christina Maria Avoglio, who had sung the main soprano roles in the two subscription series, and Susannah Cibber, an established stage actress and contralto who had sung in the second series.

At Jennens's request, Handel made several changes in the music for the 1745 revival: " Their sound is gone out " became a choral piece, the soprano song " Rejoice greatly " was recomposed in shortened form, and the transpositions for Cibber's voice were restored to their original soprano range.

For this performance the transposed Guadagni arias were restored to the soprano voice.

There were shepherds abiding in the fields ( soprano )