What is higher than soprano?

Tenors. Tenors are the highest male voice and, like sopranos, they are capable of delivering thrilling high notes and often have a brilliant shining timbre. Think of them as the trumpet of the vocal orchestra.
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What is the highest level of soprano?

A coloratura soprano sings high, light, and fast notes and has the highest voice of all sopranos and treble voices.
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What are the 6 types of voices female?

There are six main vocal ranges: soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, and bass.
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What Are the Six Voice Types?
  • Soprano. Soprano is the highest female vocal type. ...
  • Mezzo-Soprano. ...
  • Alto. ...
  • Tenor. ...
  • Baritone. ...
  • Bass.
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What are the 5 vocal ranges?

From the bottom to the top, these vocal range groups are: bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo-soprano, and soprano.
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What is the rarest voice range?

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 the rarest female voice type?

Contraltos are arguably the rarest of female voice types and they possess a tone so dark they often give the men a run for their money. If mezzos are like clarinets, contraltos are more like bass clarinets.
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What is the highest vocal note female?

Soprano: the highest female voice, being able to sing C4 (middle C) to C6 (high C), and possibly higher. Mezzo-soprano: a female voice between A3 (A below middle C) and A5 (2nd A above middle C). Contralto: the lowest female voice, F3 (F below middle C) to E5 (2nd E above Middle C).
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What is the deepest female singing voice?

The Contralto is the lowest of the female voice types and like the Basses and Countertenors, they're quite rare. The Contralto has a tessitura of around an E3-E5 and a good amount of vocal weight. The contralto tone of voice types almost sound like men when they speak or sing lower notes.
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What are the 7 voice types?

Voice Type

Women are typically divided into three groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto. Men are usually divided into four groups: countertenor, tenor, baritone, and bass.
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Is Lady Gaga soprano?

Lady Gaga is a great example of a mezzo-soprano. Her timbre is feminine, but slightly darker and more sensitive and mature than a typical lyric soprano. Despite her good technique, Gaga rarely enters the upper 5th octave.
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Is Justin Bieber a soprano?

His early recordings are expectedly that of a boy soprano; thereafter he settled into a tenor's range, as evidenced by his naturally bright, boyish timbre. Given his small vocal output and size, Bieber fits the definition of a light lyric tenor.
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What is the second highest female voice called?

The mezzo-soprano or mezzo is the second highest female voice type. In a large choir, a mezzo-soprano will usually sing along with the sopranos, not the altos, with the vocal part 'Soprano II' or 'Soprano 2'.
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What key is best for female singers?

Mezzo-soprano: A mezzo-soprano typically ranges from A3 on the low end to F5 on the high end. This is the most common range for female voices.
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Which celebrity can sing the highest note?

Which Singers Can Hit the Highest Notes?
  1. Mariah Carey.
  2. Jonas Kaufmann.
  3. Ariana Grande.
  4. Luciano Pavarotti.
  5. Christina Aguilera.
  6. Prince.
  7. Maria Callas.
  8. Axl Rose.
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What is the highest note ever?

The highest note on record is a G10 sung by Georgia Brown, a Brazilian dance/electric singer.
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What's the highest singing note?

The Italian Brazilian singer Georgia Brown holds the Guinness World Record for the highest note ever hit by a human, an incredible G10. Verified at the Aqui Jazz Atelier Music School in Sao Paulo, her vocal range extends to eight octaves.
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What voice is attractive?

There is also abundant evidence that women prefer men with a deep voice, while men prefer women with a high voice. Attractive male voices are around 96 Hz and the most attractive women voices are up to 280 Hz.
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What is the most powerful voice type?

Dramatic contraltos have the deepest-ranged voices with heavy tones. This is the darkest, most powerful voice within the category; singers in this class are rare. Very rarely, some female singers can sing as low as male tenors, baritones and even basses.
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What are the 4 female voices?

Female voices
  • Soprano range: The soprano is the highest singing voice. ...
  • Mezzo-soprano range: The mezzo-soprano voice is the middle-range voice type for females; it lies between the soprano and contralto ranges, over-lapping both of them. ...
  • Contralto range: The contralto voice is the lowest female voice.
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What is female falsetto called?

Clippinger generally 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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Who has the deepest singing voice?

Tim Storms (born August 28, 1972) is an American singer and composer. He holds the Guinness World Record for both the "lowest note produced by a human" and the "widest vocal range".
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What is a male soprano called?

PFEIFFER: Male sopranos are sometimes referred to as countertenors, but you make a distinction because you sing higher than a countertenor.
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