Alto

['æltəʊ] or ['ælto]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the pitch range of the lowest female voice.

(noun.) (of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments.

(noun.) a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef.

(adj.) (of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group; 'alto clarinet or recorder' .

(adj.) of or being the lowest female voice .

整理:肯尼思--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

(n.) An alto singer.

手打:玛吉

同義詞及近義詞：

n. (Mus.) Counter, counter-tenor.

西里尔整理

解釋/意思:

n. (mus.) properly the same as counter-tenor the male voice of the highest pitch (now principally falsetto) and not the lowest female voice which is properly contralto though in printed music the second part in a quartet is always called alto.

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