{"id":349,"date":"2015-06-10T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/musicappreciation\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=349"},"modified":"2015-09-08T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:52:57","slug":"alto","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/chapter\/alto\/","title":{"raw":"Contralto","rendered":"Contralto"},"content":{"raw":"A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.\u00a0The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to, but different from the alto, and almost identical to that of a countertenor.\u00a0The contralto voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic contralto.\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><span id=\"Coloratura\" class=\"mw-headline\"><strong>Coloratura\u2014<\/strong><\/span>The coloratura contralto has a light, agile voice ranging very high for the classification and atypically maintains extensive coloratura and high sustaining notes, specializing in florid passages and leaps. Given its deviations from the classification's norms, this voice type is quite rare.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><span id=\"Lyric\" class=\"mw-headline\"><strong>Lyric\u2014<\/strong><\/span>The lyric contralto voice is lighter than a dramatic contralto but not capable of the ornamentation and leaps of a coloratura contralto. This class of contralto, lighter in timbre than the others, is the most common today.<\/li>\r\n\t<li><span id=\"Dramatic\" class=\"mw-headline\"><strong>Dramatic\u2014<\/strong><\/span>The dramatic contralto is the deepest, darkest, and heaviest contralto voice, usually having a heavier tone and more power than the others. Singers in this class are rare.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n<h3>Listen: Contralto<\/h3>\r\nThe following video shows contralto Nathalie\u00a0Stutzmann singing \"Orfeo 55\" by Handel.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nmxi4IQ3d4U&list=PLF6627DC94BD64535\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p>A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.\u00a0The contralto&#8217;s vocal range is fairly rare; similar to, but different from the alto, and almost identical to that of a countertenor.\u00a0The contralto voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic contralto.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"Coloratura\" class=\"mw-headline\"><strong>Coloratura\u2014<\/strong><\/span>The coloratura contralto has a light, agile voice ranging very high for the classification and atypically maintains extensive coloratura and high sustaining notes, specializing in florid passages and leaps. Given its deviations from the classification&#8217;s norms, this voice type is quite rare.<\/li>\n<li><span id=\"Lyric\" class=\"mw-headline\"><strong>Lyric\u2014<\/strong><\/span>The lyric contralto voice is lighter than a dramatic contralto but not capable of the ornamentation and leaps of a coloratura contralto. This class of contralto, lighter in timbre than the others, is the most common today.<\/li>\n<li><span id=\"Dramatic\" class=\"mw-headline\"><strong>Dramatic\u2014<\/strong><\/span>The dramatic contralto is the deepest, darkest, and heaviest contralto voice, usually having a heavier tone and more power than the others. Singers in this class are rare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<h3>Listen: Contralto<\/h3>\n<p>The following video shows contralto Nathalie\u00a0Stutzmann singing &#8220;Orfeo 55&#8221; by Handel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Cara Sposa, Nathalie Stutzmann, ORFEO 55, HAENDEL,\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nmxi4IQ3d4U?list=PLF6627DC94BD64535\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-349\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Voice type. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Wikipedia. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voice_type#Contralto\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voice_type#Contralto<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Elu012bna Garanu010da - Mon cu0153ur s&#039;ouvre u00e0 ta voix - Wiener Opernball, 2011. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Intermezzo89. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E_TVys3zd64?t=1s\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/E_TVys3zd64?t=1s<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":969,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Elu012bna Garanu010da - Mon cu0153ur s\\'ouvre u00e0 ta voix - Wiener Opernball, 2011\",\"author\":\"Intermezzo89\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E_TVys3zd64?t=1s\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard YouTube License\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Voice type\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Wikipedia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voice_type#Contralto\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-349","chapter","type-chapter","status-web-only","hentry"],"part":24,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/969"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/349\/revisions\/1873"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/24"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/349\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}