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contratenor

In the 14th and 15th centuries, a singing voice in the same range as the tenor. It was used to embellish three-part vocal music; the other parts were the melody and the tenor. Later, when four-part songs became popular, the contratenor part was split into the altus ‘high’ and bassus ‘low’ parts, and these in turn developed into the modern contralto and bass parts.
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Section one commences with a duet for the two higher voices (superius and contratenor altus) lasting twenty-eight breves (transcribed as twenty-eight measures in the modern standard edition); the lower two voices (tenor I and tenor II) then enter and support the upper voices for a period of time equal to the opening duet (twenty-eight measures).
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