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SOPRANO (a variant of Ital. sovrano, supreme,
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sovereign,
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Late
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Lat. superanus, from super, above)  , the
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term applied in
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music to the highest natural range of the human
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voice, and often restricted to that range in the
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female voice, "
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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
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EUNUCH), are also found .

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