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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soprano
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Across the aisle, Mrs Stych expanded her tremendous bosom to shout to the Lord in a wobbly soprano.
▪ Alessandra Marc, Deborah Voigt, sopranos.
▪ At 9, he became a busy boy soprano, beginning a six-year scholarship to a cathedral choir.
▪ The conductor was highly critical about her performance and Nilsson ended up a very unhappy soprano.
▪ With the Hebrides Ensemble and the remarkable soprano Lucy Shelton, more revelation was to follow.
▪ Yet the beneficent mezzo-soprano voice is not really the ideal instrument, and this soprano has a younger, fresher tone.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
saxophone
▪ Tenor and soprano saxophones. b. White's Chapel, Oklahoma, 1940.
▪ Alto and soprano saxophones, clarinet, flute. b Baltimore.
▪ Tenor and soprano saxophone. b. Brooklyn, New York, 7 April 1951.
▪ Tenor and soprano saxophones, flute. b. Cincnnati, Ohio, 20 Nov 1963.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Tenor and soprano saxophones. b. White's Chapel, Oklahoma, 1940.
▪ The standout title track features Cassandra Wilson plus soprano commentary by Greg Osby.
▪ Then as now, the soprano and tenor saxophonist has thrived by constantly seeking new adventures and doing the unexpected.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soprano

Soprano \So*pra"no\, n.; pl. E. Sopranos, It. Soprani. [It., fr. soprano superior, highest, fr. sopra above, L. supra. See Sovereign.] (Mus.)

  1. The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

  2. A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
soprano

1738, "the highest singing voice," ranging easily through the two octaves above middle C, from Italian soprano "the treble in music," literally "high," from sopra "above," from Latin supra, fem. ablative singular of super (see super-). Meaning "a singer having a soprano voice" is from 1738. As an adjective from 1730. Soprano saxophone is attested from 1859.

Wiktionary
soprano

n. 1 musical part or section higher in pitch than alto and other sections. 2 Person or instrument that performs the soprano part.

WordNet
soprano
  1. adj. having or denoting a high range; "soprano voice"; "soprano sax"; "the boy still had a fine treble voice"; "the treble clef" [syn: treble]

  2. [also: soprani (pl)]

soprano
  1. n. a female singer

  2. the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty

  3. the pitch range of the highest female voice [syn: treble]

  4. [also: soprani (pl)]

Wikipedia
Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A) =880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C, two octaves above middle C) =1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, soubrette, lyric, spinto, and dramatic soprano. The lyric soprano is the most common female singing voice.

Soprano (rapper)

Saïd M'Roumbaba (born 14 January 1979 in Marseille, France), better known by his stage name Soprano is a French rapper of Comorian descent. He is a part of the rap group Psy 4 de la Rime. After leaving the group to make his first solo album he recorded his solo debut Puisqu'il Faut Vivre which made the Billboard European Top 100. He returned in 2010 with a new solo album called La Colombe, which included collaborations with numerous artists such as Amadou & Mariam. He has continued to work with Psy4 de la Rime: their third album, Les Cités d'Or, was released in 2008, and their fourth album 4eme Dimension came out in April 2013.

Soprano (disambiguation)

Soprano is the highest female singing voice or the highest voice part in a singing group.

Soprano(s) may also refer to:

  • Soprano (KDE), a software library
  • Soprano (rapper), French rapper
  • Soprano clarinet
  • Soprano recorder
  • Soprano saxophone
  • The Sopranos, an American TV show
  • The Sopranos (novel), by Scottish writer Alan Warner
  • Soprano (company), a Finnish consulting company for information technologies

Usage examples of "soprano".

The housemaid was younger, but fatter than the cook, so either could have had the soprano.

If so, you shall have in return the earliest intelligence of every new soprano, and the most elaborate criticisms on every budding figurante of our court.

In the predawn coolness, it was rather charming to listen to the first, fresh voices caroling out their wares: a soprano from the plumbing dealer gateward, a warbling tenor from the pottery shop closer at hand.

Sunday-school superintendents, not bartenders, who chiefly patronize peep-shows, and know the dirty books, and have a high artistic admiration for sopranos of superior gluteal development.

Madoc surmised that men who sang opera and oratorio as often as Pitney and Kight did were accustomed to hearing loud soprano shrieks and could shut them out at will.

There have been a few representations in English within this time and a considerable number in Italian, our operatic institutions being quick, as a rule, to put it upon the stage whenever they have at command a soprano leggiero with a voice of sufficient range and flexibility to meet the demands of the extraordinary music which Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night to oblige his voluble-throated sister-in-law, Mme.

As a scramjet, the note was highest of all, a screaming operatic soprano.

If the Viennese fiddled while Rome burnt perhaps there were worse occupations, and when it was over--the catastrophe he saw so clearly--they would still quarrel at the barbers about the high C of some soprano not yet born, or argue over the tessitura of a newly imported tenor.

This woman often sang counterpoint with Tobe, her mellow alto voice intertwined with his pure soprano.

But whether he needed to see it or not, she needed to express it, and her smoky soprano voice was very quiet, and infinitely gentle, in his mastoid implant.

His wife was a beautiful soprano singer and was soloist in the Unitarian Church in the days of the sixties when the church was on Stockton.

Best of all, Mami seemed not to mind the singing anymore and once or twice broke out into song herself in a delicate, quavery soprano: A Santa Clous le gusta el vino, A Santa Claus le gusta el ion.

Mirandee and Clubfoot joined in, clear soprano and awkward bass, at chorus points that were not obvious.

The soprano leaves the baritone and goes up to a high D and just hangs there, either shattered or ecstatic.

In the second strophe the soprano voice takes the melody, which is supported by rare harmonies and a lovely figuration in the alto.