soprani

The poor sometimes sold their children for this purpose, and the castrati and soprani are terms well known to the musical historian.

Satyricon 2007

The poor sometimes sold their children for this purpose, and the castrati and soprani are terms well known to the musical historian.

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Tolerable baritones have been transformed into very mediocre tenors, capable mezzo-soprani into very indifferent dramatic soprani, and so on.

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

Now and then, when listening to the soprani of some well-trained boy-choir, sounding soft and mellow on the lower notes and ringing clear and flutey on the higher, it may have dimly occurred to the teacher of public school music that there might be things as yet unheard of in his musical philosophy, a vague wonder and dissatisfaction, which has slowly disappeared under the pressure of routine work.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

The poor sometimes sold their children for this purpose, and the castrati and soprani are terms well known to the musical historian.

The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Banditti, in place of bandits, would seem an affectation to an American, and so would soprani for sopranos and soli for solos, but the last two, at least, are common in England.

Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words Henry Louis 1921

After the year 1441 the records no longer mention the presence of boys in the choir, the high voices, soprano and alto, being thenceforth sung by natural (and occasionally unnatural) soprani falsetti and high tenors respectively.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

With devout insistence the theme is reiterated by the two soprani, then the voices are woven together, and the simile that rose up in her mind was the pious image of fingers interlaced in prayer.

Evelyn Innes 1892

The masterly way in which he differentiates the natures of his three soprani -- Anna, a type of noble purity; Elvira, a loving and long-suffering woman, alternating between jealous indignation and voluptuous tenderness; and Zerlina, a model of rustic coquetry -- may especially be remarked, but all the characters are treated with the same profound knowledge of life and human nature.

The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland 1892

On November 13, 1885, he heard in the church and for the first time, the Florentine's Second Requiem in D minor, for male voices; and thought it beautiful and devotional, and in no way lacking in effect through the absence of _soprani_ and _contralti_, which he had not missed.

Cardinal Newman as a Musician Edward Bellasis 1887