alto
Kelime Anlamı :

1. alto sesli sanatçı.
2. en kalın kadın sesi.
3. alto.
4. en pes kadın veya çocuk sesi.
Tanımlar :
1. A low female singing voice; a contralto.
2. A countertenor.
3. the range between soprano and tenor.
4. A singer whose voice lies within this range.
5. an instrument that sounds within this range.
6. A vocal or instrumental part written in this range.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
2. this sense) A person or instrument that performs the alto part
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. 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.
2. an alto singer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. literally, high: an element in terms relating to music and art: as, alto-ripieno, alto-rilievo.
2. in music: same as contralto.
3. the instrument called in england the tenor violin, and by the Italians the viola.
4. see all, adv., 1.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia