What is higher than a soprano?

These basic types are soprano, mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Vocal range

Mezzo-sopranos generally have a heavier, darker tone than sopranos. The mezzo-soprano voice resonates in a higher range than that of a contralto. The terms Dugazon and Galli-Marié are sometimes used to refer to light mezzo-sopranos, after the names of famous singers.
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, and contralto for women, and tenor, baritone, and bass for men. Within choral music the system is collapsed into only four categories for adult singers: soprano and alto for women, and tenor and bass for men.
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Is soprano higher than treble?

The key difference between treble and soprano is that treble refers to a high-frequency tone, especially of a boy, while soprano refers to a high voice or a higher pitch of a female. Treble is a tone whose range or frequency is at the higher end of human hearing. It is the highest section of notes.
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What is the highest vocal range called?

Soprano. The soprano is the highest singing voice.
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What are the 6 types of voices in order?

There are six main vocal ranges: soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, and bass.
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Once you know your range, use the descriptions below to find your voice type.
  • Soprano. Soprano is the highest female vocal type. ...
  • Mezzo-Soprano. ...
  • Alto. ...
  • Tenor. ...
  • Baritone. ...
  • Bass.
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What is the rarest voice type?

A countertenor is a male singer who can sing as high as a soprano or mezzo-soprano. The countertenor is the rarest of all voice types.
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Contralto, Mezzo



What is the highest female voice?

Soprano: this is the highest singing voice, with the highest tessitura. It is also the most common female voice.
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What is a high alto called?

In 4-part voice leading alto is the second highest part, sung in choruses by either low women's or high men's voices. In vocal classification these are usually called contralto and male alto or countertenor. Such confusion of "high" and "low" persists in instrumental terminology.
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Are there female baritones?

Certainly. 'Female baritone' is almost the standard voice type for mature Broadway actresses! Make sure you ARE singing, not just crooning along with a recording though.
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What is the highest note?

One octave up from there is A1, which is the note “A” in the first octave. The highest note on the piano is called C8. That means the note “C” in the eighth octave.
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What is Ariana Grande's vocal range?

How Many Octaves Can Ariana Sing? Ariana is one of the most popular vocal stars in the current pop music era that is known for her insane upper register. She has a killer range that spans 4 octaves. While she has great whistle tone notes, she is flexible in her lower range as well.
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Who has the highest singing voice?

The chart shows the “highest and lowest notes each artist hit in the recording studio”. Based on the findings, Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose has demonstrated the greatest vocal range in studio.
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What does a reedy voice sound like?

Use the adjective reedy to describe someone who's tall and thin, or a sound that's high-pitched.
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Can a female sing bass?

A Welsh musician has recently broken the record for the lowest vocal note (female). Helen Leahey, the aptly named 'Bass Queen', sang from a D5 to a D2 note at an incredibly deep 72.5 hertz(es) in her attempt at the Music School Wagner in Koblenz, Germany.
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Can a girl be a tenor?

We women sing tenor because the range suits us better than alto, which is the lowest female choral part. My voice, for example, quits at the A above Middle C, where altos are perfectly comfortable. There are at least 10 female tenors in the 200-member chorus I belong to, and most sing as well as the men.
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What is a deep voice called?

Baritone comes from the Italian baritono, with its Greek root word barytonos, "deep-voiced," combining barys, "heavy or deep" and tonos, "tone." Definitions of baritone. the second lowest adult male singing voice. synonyms: baritone voice.
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What was Freddie Mercury's vocal range?

Mercury's documented vocal range extended from bass low F to soprano high F, with many of Queen's songs showing off his coloratura and vocal strength high in his register. And always those notes came with pure emotion, passion, and musical charisma. What an immense talent.
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What is the order of voices from highest to lowest?

In opera, voices are grouped into seven main categories (from highest to lowest): soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, countertenor, tenor, baritone, and bass. Learn more about how voices are as unique as fingerprints with Dr.
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What is female falsetto called?

Clippinger most likely equivalent to the middle voice of a woman. This may mean the head voice of a woman is a man's falsetto equivalent. Although, in contemporary teaching, some teachers no longer talk of the middle voice, choosing to call it the head voice as with men.
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What is a Verdi soprano?

Verdi wrote soprano parts for a variety of vocal types. The roles of Abigaille (Nabucco), Violetta (Traviata), and Leonora (Trovatore and Forza) have quite different requirements. The first asks for a spinto capable of both forceful declamation and great agility, but floated high notes and a velvet tone are not needed.
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What's the highest note a human can sing?

The highest note on record is a G10 sung by Georgia Brown, a Brazilian dance/electric singer. You can hear it here (it's really something!). While a G10 is extreme, many of the coloraturas I know sing up to the 7th octave.
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Why is Adele's voice unique?

A changing voice

As a mezzo-soprano, Adele's songs sit in a range that suits most listeners, singing along. Adele can mix her chest voice up quite high (E5, 10 notes above middle C) but she is not taken to the range extremes of early Mariah or Celine.
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What type of voice does Rihanna have?

What's Rihanna's Voice Type? Rihanna is a powerful alto singer that has a lot of richness to her tone and power behind her chest voice. Technically, she can be considered a lyric contralto since she has a very great low range with a light head voice that can also reach some great high notes.
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What was Pavarotti vocal range?

Luciano Pavarotti is hailed as the world's greatest tenor, and his impressive vocal range proves just that. In his prime, the larger-than-life tenor could hit an F5 – that's an octave and a half above middle C.
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What is a husky voice?

If someone's voice is husky, it is low and rather rough, often in an attractive way. [...] huskily adverb [ADVERB after verb]
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