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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 41 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONTRALTO (from Ital. contra-
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alto, i.e. next above the alto)  , the -
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term for the lowest variety of the
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female
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voice, as distinguished from the
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soprano and mezzo-soprano . Originally it signified, in choral
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music, the
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part next higher than the
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alto, given to the falsetto
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counter-
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tenor .

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