mezzo-soprano clef

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noun Music.

a C clef locating middle C on the line next to the lowest line of the staff.

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Origin of mezzo-soprano clef

First recorded in 1805–15

Anti-hero status, as enjoyed by Tony Soprano and Walter White, is typically a male property.
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The landscape looks something like the marsh behind the Toys ‘R’ Us where Tony Soprano might bury a body in Jersey.
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Someone with a lovely soprano voice was singing me “Happy Birthday.”
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Rare is the roman à clef where you think you can identify every single real person in it.
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Tony Soprano used to pick up copies of it in his fictional driveway.
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Once he learnt, with his aunt, the exceedingly florid duet in Semiramide, and sang the soprano part admirably.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
He boasted of having "made a soprano out of Zambinella" and disclosed the fact to Sarrasine that this creature was not a woman.
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He can if he like make himself a soprano, and sing for hire;—and probably that is the real goal for him.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
Voltaire describes his hero “qui tient sous la clef, la vertu de sa femme.”
The Swastika|Thomas Wilson
Susy Clemens went to Paris to cultivate her voice, a rare soprano, with a view to preparing for the operatic stage.
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