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A soprano (Italian pronunciation: [soˈpraːno]) is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C 4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A 5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C 6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music.
Vocal range. Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate. A common application is within the context of singing, where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into voice types. [1] It is also a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech-language pathology, particularly in ...
Mezzo-soprano voice range (A 3 –A 5) indicated on piano keyboard in green with dot marking middle C (C 4) Mezzo-soprano range: The mezzo-soprano voice is the middle-range voice type for females; [3] it lies between the soprano and contralto ranges, over-lapping both of them.
A lyric soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra. The lyric soprano voice generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingenues and other sympathetic characters in opera. Lyric sopranos have a range from approximately middle C (C 4 ...
Sopranist. A sopranist (also known as male soprano) is a male singer who is able to sing in vocal tessitura of a soprano, usually through falsetto or head voice technique. This voice type is a specific kind of countertenor. [1] In rare cases an adult man may be able to sing in the soprano range using his normal or modal voice (high chest voice ...
The general vocal range of an adult female soprano is C 4 –C 6 (highlighted), with notes unreachable by an average Treble marked in red (B 5 –C 6).. Most trebles have a comfortable range from the A below "middle C" (A 3, 220 Hz) to the F one and a half octaves above "middle C" (F 5, 698 Hz), [10] roughly corresponding to an adult male baritone range, up one octave.
A mezzo-soprano (Italian: [ˌmɛddzosoˈpraːno], lit. ' half soprano '), or mezzo (English: / ˈ m ɛ t s oʊ / MET-soh), is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e.
A coloratura soprano (Italian: soprano di coloratura) is a type of operatic soprano voice that specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs, leaps and trills. The term coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for this voice. Within the coloratura category, there ...