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treble

The highest register of a boy's singing voice (approximately equivalent in range to the soprano voice of a woman), about F4–C6, or the highest-pitched member of a family of instruments, for example the treble viol. The term is also used to refer to the right hand of a piano piece.

The term is derived from the Latin triplum, the top part of early three-part motets.



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And what a good round belly I should have grown, what a treble chin I should have established, what a ruby nose I should have coloured for myself, so that everyone would have said, looking at me: "Here is an asset
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
[1] There seems to be nothing to hinder their being increased in this country to at least treble their present amount.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
So exquisite is the adaptation of Bass to Treble, of Tenor to Contralto, that oftentimes the Loved Ones, though twenty thousand leagues away, recognize at once the responsive note of their destined Lover; and, penetrating the paltry obstacles of distance, Love unites the three.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
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