(n.) The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
(n.) the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amy Winehouse , the tiny woman with the contralto voice, was mumbling her way through some of her most famous lyrics and managing only a few strained notes as she stumbled around a stage in Belgrade, apparently drunk.
(2) And then as they sing all that from the mountain top, in October there comes an answering contralto – Jeremy Hunt, the Tories' shadow culture secretary, says: "[We will have] a very fundamental root-and-branch discussion with the BBC about all its activities across the piece."
Soprano
Definition:
(n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
(n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(2) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
(3) Adipose tissue has been reported to contain relatively high levels of the specific mRNA for retinol-binding protein (RBP) (Makover A., Soprano, D.R., Wyatt, M. L., and Goodman, D.S.
(4) French soprano Natalia Dessay and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana were invited to perform.
(5) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
(6) It was television and Tony Soprano that gained him Emmy awards, three years running, and superstar status, which he never equalled but which sustained his active post-Sopranos life.
(7) The auditory signal provided by a soprano recorder in a breathing circuit can help human subjects to regulate inspiratory and expiratory airflow rates at constant preset levels.
(8) — Steven Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) July 15, 2012 But Van Zandt, who also starred in the US drama series The Sopranos, turned to Twitter in rage.
(9) "There are people who act like Tony Soprano, they just aren't in the mafia," says Mondanile.
(10) That look will be familiar to fans of the programme that has followed in the footsteps of The Sopranos and The Wire by creating a television drama that, in its complexity and ambition, stands toe-to-toe with any comparable big-screen offering.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sopranos might be the quintessential Catholic Italian family in American pop culture, but we want to hear from some real life ones!
(12) Gandolfini won several awards for his role in The Sopranos, including both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.
(13) 'There are people who act like Tony Soprano, they just aren't in the mafia … it was filmed around the area where we grew up' – Matthew Mondanile Real Estate.
(14) The ideal Isolde is flame-haired, fiery, indomitable yet vulnerable, stern yet tender, and a standout dramatic soprano.
(15) I told him one day, 'Let's do a small duet of baritone and soprano,' and he said, 'No, no, my fans only know me as a rock singer and they will not recognise my voice if I sing in baritone.'
(16) And "Authors Guild" president Roxana Robinson says Amazon is like "Tony Soprano" and "thuggish" .
(17) Like The Sopranos, too, it uncannily anticipated a national mood soon to be intensified by current events – in this case the great economic unsettlement of the late 00s, which would leave many previously secure middle-class Americans suddenly feeling like desperate outlaws in their own suburbs.
(18) There's a neat video to be found online that compiles every single curse uttered in every single episode of The Sopranos, in chronological order.
(19) However, in July the broadcaster stepped up its US acquisitions effort , signing a £150m, five-year deal to acquire the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, including The Wire, The Sopranos and Sex and the City, as well as all future shows such as Boardwalk Empire and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blake Griffin joins the cast of "The Sopranos."