Which is the lowest female singing voice
"only in reference to classical and operatic singing, as other traditions lack a comparable system of vocal categorization. The term ""contralto"" is only applied to female singers; men singing in a similar range are called ""countertenors"". The Italian terms ""contralto"" and ""alto"" are not synonymous, the latter technically denoting a specific vocal range in choral singing without regard to factors like tessitura, vocal timbre, vocal facility, and vocal weight. The contralto has the lowest vocal range of the female voice types, with the lowest tessitura. The contralto voice range is between tenor and mezzo-soprano. Although tenors, baritones, and basses are"
"of the voice, and dexterity of the voice. Baritones are often broken down into nine subcategories: baryton-Martin, lyric baritone, bel canto or coloratura baritone, ""kavalierbariton"", heldenbaritone, Verdi baritone, dramatic baritone, ""baryton-noble"", and bass-baritone. Bass range: The bass is the lowest singing voice. The bass voice has the lowest tessitura of all the voices. The typical bass range lies between E2 (the second E below middle C) to E4 (the E above middle C). In the lower and upper extremes of the bass voice, some basses can sing from C2 (two octaves below middle C) to G4 (the G above middle"
"in the standard operatic repertoire include the following: indicates a role that may also be sung by a mezzo-soprano. Contralto A contralto () is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type. The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typically between the F below middle C (F in scientific pitch notation) to the second F above middle C (F), although, at the extremes, some voices can reach the D below middle C (D) or the second B above middle C"
"Tim Storms Tim Storms (born August 28, 1972) is an American singer and composer. He holds the Guinness World Records for ""lowest note produced by a human"" and the ""widest vocal range"". Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Storms was raised in Waterloo, Indiana. His musical affinity appeared at a young age. Four days after graduating high school, he returned to Oklahoma to begin his career in Christian music. Since then, Storms has appeared with a number of singing groups, including Freedom, Vocal Union, AVB, Acappella, and Rescue. He also performed with the cast of Branson’s ""50s at the Hop,"" was voted"
"Lowest Note Produced by a Human. The new record is G, or 0.189 Hz, eight octaves below the lowest G on the piano, or just over seven octaves below the piano. Mathematically, this should set the widest vocal range to 12 octaves; however, this record has yet to be recorded as such by Guinness. Storms' record-setting notes are so low as to be infrasonic, incapable of being perceived by the human ear. The 2012 record requires more than five seconds for the vocal cords to oscillate once. <score>\new Staff \with { \remove ""Time_signature_engraver"" }{\clef bass g,,,,,}</score>(above)G Tim Storms Tim Storms"
"Vladimir Miller Vladimir Miller (Russian: Влади́мир Ми́ллер) is a Russian opera, folk and choir singer possessing a low-ranging basso profondo (oktavist) voice, one of the lowest voices in the world. Many have also lauded the powerful unique timbre of his voice, especially when singing low notes. Miller is regularly heard singing the F1 and G1. He was born in Siberia in 1964. Miller was initially not planning a singing career. He graduated from Leningrad State Conservatoire as a musicologist. Later he studied singing at Cologne Music School in Germany. His teachers were Reinhard Leisenheimer and Kurt Moll. He soon became"
"the lowest part commonly sung by women. The explanation for the anomaly of this name is to be found not in the use of adult falsettists in choirs of men and boys but further back in innovations in composition during the mid-15th century. Before this time it was usual to write a melodic ""cantus"" or ""superius"" against a tenor (from Latin ""tenere"", to hold) or 'held' part, to which might be added a contratenor, which was in counterpoint with (in other words, against = contra) the tenor. The composers of Ockeghem's generation wrote two contratenor parts and designated them as"
"Bass (voice type) A bass ( ) is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to ""The New Grove Dictionary of Opera"", a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., E–E). Its tessitura, or comfortable range, is normally defined by the outermost lines of the bass clef. Categories of bass voices vary according to national style and classification system. Italians favour subdividing basses into the ""basso cantante"" (singing bass), ""basso buffo"""
"Soprano recorder The soprano recorder in c, also known as the descant, is the third-smallest instrument of the modern recorder family and is usually played as the highest voice in four-part ensembles (SATB = soprano, alto, tenor, bass). Since its finger spacing is relatively small, it is often used in music education for children first learning to play an instrument. The soprano recorder is an octave above the level of the human soprano voice. Its lowest note is c (this article is notated using Helmholtz notation, in scientific pitch notation the same note is represented as C), the normal range"
"Mikhail Zlatopolsky Mikhail (Motja Moiseevich) Zlatopolsky (Russian: Михаил Златопольский; 1934-2001) was a Russian folk, and choir singer possessing an extremely rare low-ranging oktavist voice. Zlatopolsky was listed as the lowest bass in the world with a documented low note of E1. Zlatopolsky was born to a Jewish family in Tashkent. After the Russian Revolution, when Orthodox singing moved into the category of marginal employment, the number of basso profondos sharply declined. Soviet oktavists enjoyed intense demand during the Brezhnev era. Moscow choirs outbid each other for Zlatopolsky as the star player. Zlatopolsky's place was employed by the Union Radio Choir,"
"in many years. Turunen's voice type is soprano. Over the course of her career, Turunen has developed a vocal range of three octaves. Her range is apparent on her album ""My Winter Storm"", where the lowest note sung is F in the song ""The Seer"", while in another song, she aimed for D. Turunen's voice is described by critics as remarkably powerful and emotional. Sometimes it is stated that her voice is too trained or operatic for metal music, but even critics who do not like classical voices admit that her voice suits the kind of metal songs she sings"
"Speak Low ""Speak Low"" (1943) is a popular song composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Ogden Nash. It was introduced by Mary Martin and Kenny Baker in the Broadway musical ""One Touch of Venus"" (1943). The 1944 hit single was by Guy Lombardo and his orchestra, with vocal by Billy Leach. Barbra Streisand recorded a David Foster arrangement of ""Speak Low"" for her album ""Back to Broadway"" (1993). Actress Ava Gardner (dubbed by Eileen Wilson) and Dick Haymes sang the song in the feature film version of ""One Touch of Venus"" (1948). The tune is a jazz standard that"
"""Patience"" and ""The Yeomen of the Guard"" have at least one lead bass. Notable roles include: Bass (voice type) A bass ( ) is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to ""The New Grove Dictionary of Opera"", a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., E–E). Its tessitura, or comfortable range, is normally defined by the outermost lines of the bass clef. Categories of bass voices vary according to national"
"Little Voice (film) Little Voice is a 1998 British musical film written and directed by Mark Herman and made in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The screenplay is based on Jim Cartwright's play ""The Rise and Fall of Little Voice"". Laura Hoff, an only child, is a reclusive young woman who lives with her mother in a working-class home in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. She is known as LV (short for Little Voice) for her reticence. She flees reality, hiding away in her bedroom, listening to records and mimicking their artists' voices like Gracie Fields', Judy Garland's, and Shirley Bassey's; her love of"
"Richard Strauss's ""Die Frau ohne Schatten""). Often low notes in higher voices will project less, lack timbre, and tend to ""count less"" in roles (although some Verdi, Strauss and Wagner roles call for stronger singing below the staff). However, rarely is a soprano simply unable to sing a low note in a song within a soprano role. Low notes can be reached with a lowered position of the larynx. The high extreme, at a minimum, for non-coloratura sopranos is ""soprano C"" (C two octaves above middle C), and many roles in the standard repertoire call for C or D. A"
"Basso profondo Basso profondo (Italian: ""deep bass""), sometimes basso profundo or contrabass, is the bass voice subtype with the lowest vocal range. While ""The New Grove Dictionary of Opera"" defines a typical bass as having a range that is limited to the second E below middle C (E), operatic basso profondos can be called on to sing low C (C), such as in the role of Baron Ochs in ""Der Rosenkavalier"". Often choral composers make use of lower notes, such as G or even F; in such rare cases the choir relies on exceptionally deep-ranged basso profondos termed oktavists or"
"(55 Hz) in the rare occasion that a choir includes exceptionally gifted singers who can produce this very low human voice pitch. Many British composers such as Benjamin Britten have written parts for bass (such as the first movement of his choral work ""Rejoice in the Lamb"") that center far higher than the bass tessitura as implied by the clef. The ""Harvard Dictionary of Music"" defines the range as being from the E below low C to middle C (i.e. E–C). The bass has the lowest vocal range of all voice types, with the lowest tessitura. The low extreme for"
"Lay Low Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir (born 10 September 1982), better known by her stage name, Lay Low, is a British-born Sri Lankan-Icelandic artist and singer. Lovísa was born to a Sri Lankan father and an Icelandic mother. She moved to Iceland at a young age where she has lived since. As a child she began taking piano lessons but started playing electric bass and guitar in her teens, and has since then played with numerous local bands. She joined the band Benny Crespo's Gang playing keyboards/synthesizers and guitar. It was then when she first started to use her voice. Lay"
"comic-relief fool in bel canto operas. English equivalent: dramatic bass ""Basso profondo"" (lyric low bass) is the lowest bass voice type. According to J. B. Steane in ""Voices, Singers & Critics"", the basso profondo voice ""derives from a method of tone-production that eliminates the more Italian quick vibrato. In its place is a kind of tonal solidity, a wall-like front, which may nevertheless prove susceptible to the other kind of vibrato, the slow beat or dreaded wobble."" English equivalent: dramatic low bass. Dramatic basso profondo is a powerful basso profondo voice. All of the Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy operas, except"
"Georgia Brown (Brazilian singer) Georgia Brown, pseudonym of Rossana Monti (born June 29, 1980) is an Italian Brazilian singer noted for her extensive vocal range. She was listed in the 2005 ""Guinness World Records"" for hitting the highest vocal note and for possessing the greatest vocal range for a female, claimed to be exactly nine octaves from sub>-E1-G10 using scientific pitch notation. However, as of 2013, Tim Storms holds the record for the widest vocal range of any human with 10 octaves, with the caveat that much of Storms's vocal range is infrasound that cannot be heard and that all"
"as the eighteenth century, partbooks labelled 'tenor' might contain parts for a range of voice types. The vocal range of the tenor is one of the highest of the male voice types. Within opera, the lowest note in the standard tenor repertoire is probably A in Rossini's rarely performed ""La donna del lago"" in the role of Rodrigo di Dhu, written for Andrea Nozzari. Within more frequently performed repertoire, Mime and Herod both call for an A. A few tenor roles in the standard repertoire call for a ""tenor C"" (C, one octave above middle C). Some, if not all,"
"to a high D6. Any individual's voice can perform over a range of one and a half to more than two octaves. Vocal ranges are grouped into overlapping types that each span about two octaves. Many singers fall between groups and can perform some parts in either type. Soprano range: The soprano is the highest singing voice. The typical soprano voice lies between C4 (middle C) and C6 (""high C""). The low extreme for sopranos is roughly A3 (just below middle C). Most soprano roles do not extend above C6 although there are several standard soprano roles that call for"
"and low voices within each sex: soprano and alto vocal ranges for females, tenor and bass vocal ranges for males (SATB), and occasionally treble for children. As a result, the typical chorus affords many opportunities for misclassification to occur. Since most people have medium voices, they are often assigned a part that is either too high or too low for them; the mezzo-soprano must sing soprano or alto and the baritone must sing tenor or bass. Either option can present problems for the singer, but for most singers there are fewer dangers in singing too low, than in singing too"
"characteristic low popping or rattling sound when air passes through the glottal closure. The register (if well controlled) can extend far below the modal voice register, in some cases up to 8 octaves lower, such as in the case of Tim Storms who holds the world record for lowest frequency note ever produced by a human, a G, which is only 0.189 Hz, inaudible to the human ear. The vocal fry register has been a recognized and identifiable register in American English only within the past few decades, but its characteristic sound was recognized much earlier. Discussion of the vocal"
"therapeutically helpful to students who have trouble producing lower notes. Singers often lose their low notes or never learn to produce them because of the excessive tension of the laryngeal muscles and of the support mechanism that leads to too much breath pressure. Some overtone singing styles such as kargyraa use vocal techniques similar to vocal fry. Vocal fry register The vocal fry register (also known as pulse register, laryngealization, pulse phonation, creak, croak, popcorning, glottal fry, glottal rattle, glottal scrape, or strohbass) is the lowest vocal register and is produced through a loose glottal closure that permits air to"
"male singers, some women can sing as low (albeit with a slightly different timbre and texture than their male counterparts). Unfortunately, they are often erroneously referred to as ""female tenors"", ""female baritones"", ""female basses"" or ""androgynous."" In reality, such terms are usually derogatory informal (slang). Factual formal terminology would be ""contralto profundo"" (tenor) and ""contralto basso"" or ""oktavistka"" (baritone) but these are not traditionally named among the fach system. Some of the rare contraltos that can sing the female equivalent of tenor and baritone include Zarah Leander, Ruby Helder, and Bally Prell. The earliest cited role for the contralto is"
"middle C (C) to ""high D"" (D). The voice has a lighter vocal weight than other soprano voices with a brighter timbre. Many young singers start out as soubrettes but as they grow older and the voice matures more physically they may be reclassified as another voice type, usually either a light lyric soprano, a lyric coloratura soprano, or a coloratura mezzo-soprano. Rarely does a singer remain a soubrette throughout her entire career. The tessitura of the soubrette tends to lie a bit lower than the lyric soprano and spinto soprano. The soubrette roles are typically found in comic operas"
"often older men. Sergei Kochetov, Vladimir Miller, and Mikhail Kruglov recorded a number of classic Russian folk songs and similar music, singing them in a low-pitched key to invoke the old oktavist tradition which dates back to the Tsar's court. Basso profondo Basso profondo (Italian: ""deep bass""), sometimes basso profundo or contrabass, is the bass voice subtype with the lowest vocal range. While ""The New Grove Dictionary of Opera"" defines a typical bass as having a range that is limited to the second E below middle C (E), operatic basso profondos can be called on to sing low C (C),"
"than vocals) could not be read. Authentic village singing differs from academic singing styles. It is usually done using just the chest register and is often called ""white sound"" or ""white"" voice. It is often described as controlled screaming or shouting. Female chest register singers have only a low diapason of one octave to 12 notes. Chest register singing has evolved into a style used by many of Russia's folk choirs and neighbouring countries. It was pioneered by Pyatnitsky and Ukrainian folk choir director Demutsky in the early 1900s. Notable ensembles include the Pyatnitsky Russian Folk Chorus, the Northern Russian"
"basses is generally C (two Cs below middle C). However, some extreme bass singers, referred to as basso profondos and oktavists, are able to reach much lower than this. In SATB four-part mixed chorus, the bass is the lowest vocal range, below the tenor, alto, and soprano. Voices are subdivided into first bass and second bass with no distinction being made between bass and baritone voices, in contrast to the three-fold (tenor–baritone–bass) categorization of solo voices. The exception is in arrangements for male choir (TTBB) and barbershop quartets (TLBB), which sometimes label the lowest two parts baritone and bass. Within"
"tend to have a lighter and less rich vocal sound than a mezzo-soprano. A voice teacher, however, would never classify a singer in more than one voice type, regardless of the size of the vocal range of the singer. Within the operatic systems of classification, there are six basic voice types. The ranges given below are approximations and are not meant to be too rigidly applied. Some men, in falsetto voice or as a result of certain rare physiological conditions, can sing in the same range as women. These do not fall into the female categories, instead called countertenors within"
"known as the whistle register. Both men and women, women even more so than men, often require training to easily access the pitches within these registers. Men and women with lower voices rarely sing in these registers. Lower voiced women in particular receive very little if any training in the flageolet register. Men have one more additional register called the ""strohbass"", which lies below the chest voice. Singing in this register is hard on the vocal cords, and therefore, is hardly ever used. The transitions between these registers are known as the ""passaggi"". Here are the register ranges offered by"
"German or , ""vocal category""). A singer's tessitura is where the voice has the best timbre, easy volume, and most comfort. Within the soprano voice type category are five generally recognized subcategories: coloratura soprano, soubrette, lyric soprano, spinto soprano, and dramatic soprano. The coloratura soprano may be a lyric coloratura or a dramatic coloratura. The lyric coloratura soprano is a very agile light voice with a high upper extension capable of fast vocal coloratura. Light coloraturas have a range of approximately middle C (C) to ""high F"" (""in alt"") (F) with some coloratura sopranos being able to sing somewhat lower"