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male alto

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male alto

In singing, an artificial extension of the highest male-voice register, produced by falsetto, used in Anglican church choirs and in male-voice quartets and choral societies, particularly in glees and part songs.



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As a soloist, scholar, and founder of The Deller Consort, Deller was the first countertenor to gain attention outside the English church choir repertoire, in which he had worked as a male alto.
If Bowman represents the English cathedral tradition of male alto singers, Scholl takes the international approach, combining rock-star charisma with a voice that travels directly down your spine.
Thus Orpheus was not the tenor of Gluck's 1774 Paris version, nor the female mezzo of the Berlioz (hitherto standard) 1859 revision, but a countertenor--the illustrious David Daniels, who sangthe male alto version of the first production beautifully.
 
 
 
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