Music for Voices

Vocal Range:

Highest

• Treble voice: boys unbroken voice

• Soprano: highest female voice

• Mezzo soprano: medium female voice

• Contralto (alto): lowest female voice

• Counter-tenor: very high blokes voice

• Tenor: medium to high male voice

• Baritone: medium to low male voice

• Bass: lowest male voices

Lowest

Types of solo songs:

• Lied (Lieder): German word meaning "song". 

Schubert: Die Forelle.

• Aria: Is a solo song that is part of a larger piece - either an opera or an oratorio.

• Opera: Play that is sung.

Magic Flute (Queen of Night Aria)

• Oratorio: A large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir and soloists.

• Pop Ballad:

Enrique Iglesias: Hero

Whitney Houston: I will always love you

• Folk Song: British Isles and America, simple strummed stringed accompaniment usually guitar. Sometimes sung a cappella, verse form, don't always have chorus. 

The Dubliners: Irish Rover

Bob Dylan: Lily, Rosemarie and the Jack of hearts

Steve Earle: The Galway Girl

• Madrigal: Before baroque period. Originated in Italy. Type of song for a small group of singers. About everyday life, not religious (secular).

Concerto

Concerto:
Concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which (usually) one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute) is accompanied by an orchestra.


                                                                  Cello Concerto:

Viola Concerto:

Concerto Grosso:
Concerto grosso is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists and full orchestra.