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Adelaide Phillips was an American singer. She was born in 1833 and died in 1882. She went to America from England in 1840. She was for many years the leading contralto singer in America. Her voice had a compass of two and a half octaves.
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Antoinette Sterling was an American singer. She was born in 1850 at Sterlingville, New York and died in 1904. She studied singing at New York and under Marchesi, Viardot Garcia and Manuel Garcia. In 1871 she became known in New York as a leading contralto concert singer. She made her first London appearance in 1873, thereafter remaining in England except to tour the USA in 1875 and Australia in 1893.
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Kathleen Ferrier was an English contralto. She was born in 1912 at Higher Walton and died in 1953.
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C is an abbreviation for centi-
C is an abbreviation for cubic.
C is an abbreviation for cycle.
C is an abbreviation for constant.
C is an abbreviation for specific heat capacity.
C is an abbreviation for the speed of light and other types of electromagnetic radiation in a free space.
C is an abbreviation for carbon
C is an abbreviation for capacitance
C is an abbreviation for heat capacity
C is an abbreviation for cold
C is an abbreviation for compliance
C is an abbreviation for Celsius
C is an abbreviation for centigrade
C is an abbreviation for century
C is an abbreviation for coulomb
C is an abbreviation for carat
C is an abbreviation for caught.
C is an abbreviation for cents.
C is an abbreviation for chapter.
C is an abbreviation for circa
C is an abbreviation for colt.
C is an abbreviation for contralto.
C is an abbreviation for copyright.
C is an abbreviation for Cape
C is an abbreviation for Catholic.
C is an abbreviation for Celtic.
C is an abbreviation for Conservative.
C is an abbreviation for Corps.
C is an abbreviation for Confidential
In music, alto was formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now it is the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.
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In music, contralto is the highest voice of a male adult, or the lowest of a woman or boy. It is also known as Alto or counter-tenor. The usual range of the contralto voice is from G, below middle C, to the C above that; though exceptionally it embraces two octaves.
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In music, counter tenor or countertenor is one of the middle parts between the tenor and the treble, that is a high tenor. It is the highest male adult voice, having its easy compass from tenor G to treble C, and music for it is written on the alto or C clef on the middle line of the staff. The lowest voices of females and boys have about the same register, and are sometimes inaccurately called counter tenor. The correct term is alto or contralto.
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In music, a mezzo-soprano is a female singer having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto.
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