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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 429 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOPRANO (a variant of Ital. sovrano, supreme, See also:sovereign, See also:Late See also:Lat. superanus, from super, above)  , the See also:term applied in See also:music to the highest natural range of the human See also:voice, and often restricted to that range in the See also:female voice, " See also:treble " being used of a boy's voice . Male soprani, either natural or artificially produced, as formerly in the castrati of the papal choirs (see See also:EUNUCH), are also found .

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