Contralto: alternatives and connections

A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying…

The higher part of the scale. See Alto.

High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alt…

A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liq…

A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise a…

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.

Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.

A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

Counter tenor; contralto.

To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a count…

One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.

See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.

To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, un…

Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by orna…

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…