altos
- plural of alto.
Example Sentences
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She remembers opening the windows when the weather got warm, letting the sounds of altos and sopranos and tenors travel down the street.
From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2023
All but two of the singers are, be they women or male countertenors, are sopranos or altos.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2023
"But if you notice, they are all from melodic lines and they move in intervals that can be taken by sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, and this is not possible to do like that."
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2021
I forfeit the solo to Anna Muller—whom Carissimi could never love—and am moved into the altos.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
Figure 2.9: Voices are as individual as faces; some altos will have a narrower or wider range, or the sweetest and most powerful part of their range in a different place than other altos.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
