Alto is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALTO in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a low female singing voice
• the lowest female singing voice; contralto.
• a person with an alto voice.
• a part written for an alto voice.
• an alto saxophone.
• (especially in church music) the highest adult male singing voice (sometimes distinguished from the countertenor voice as using falsetto).
• denoting the member of a family of instruments pitched second or third highest
• (singer with) the highest adult male voice
• 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.
• An alto singer.
• a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
• (of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments
• the pitch range of the lowest female voice
ADJECTIVE:
• of or being the lowest female voice
• of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor
• (of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group
• denoting an instrument, singer, or voice with this range

Words related to ALTO

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Words that contain ALTO

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How to use ALTO in a sentence

• And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be alto broken.
• In the meantime, besides engagements less important, he had won the victories of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, which created great enthusiasm throughout the Union.
• They prefer the baby-jumper to the study of Coke and Lyttleton, and the ball-room to the Palo Alto battle.
• Mawle chanting her alto midway in the hall, acting as a connecting channel in some way, was apparently never made fully clear.
• The bass and alto were uttering their appointed notes in harmony and without dismay.
• New rapid instructor for cornet, trumpet, and E flat alto.
• North of this marshy plain lies the highland, the Plan Alto, where the nights are cool and the climate healthy.
• From Tapirapoan our course lay northward up to and across the Plan Alto, the highland wilderness of Brazil.
• We were on the Plan Alto, the high central plain of Brazil, the healthy land of dry air, of cool nights, of clear, running brooks.
• The following day we again rode on across the Plan Alto.
• The difference between a soprano and an alto voice is merely one of length and tension of the vocal cords.
• In both sexes the larynx of the low voice, alto or bass, is larger than that of the high voice, soprano or tenor.
• I had also gotten the choir position as alto in St.
• Before I could read the notes I was able to make an alto part to almost any hymn.
• I was one that was chosen on the alto side to help in the worship.
• I could always make an alto to any tune, so I just looked at it blindly and made my harmony as it fitted and did not disturb the harmony of the music.
• They are, roughly, the difference between the average male and the average female voice, and the difference between the average soprano and alto.
• This singer finds the low register easier to sing than the upper, consequently she and her friends decide she is an alto.
• Thereafter she sings low songs and takes the alto part in the choir.
• The mere fact of having high tones does not necessarily make one a soprano, neither is a voice always to be classified as alto by reason of not being able to sing high.
• It must not be understood that there is but one soprano quality, one alto quality, etc.
• Some of them change from soprano to alto and end by that route.
• At about E flat or E above middle C the alto or soprano passes from the chest to the middle register.
• The elevated tone of our whole inner man has deprived us of any ear for the alto.
• University, at Palo Alto, the State of California is giving diligent attention to matters of education.
• Or you might even decide to go to Mont Alto and take a degree in forestry and become a forester like myself.
• There were few, however, who did not recognize the strong, sweet alto which ran through each melody like a minor key.
• Between an alto and a soprano it is about a fourth.
• Alto, tenor, and bass were fairly sustained, as well as soprano, and the whole effect was good.
• And then comes reference to that change of voice from alto to bass which attends advance from boyhood to adolescence.
• Su indignacion fue tanta que mejor es pasar por alto los epitetos con que adornaron el nombre del lugareno.

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