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Who is the male tenor voice singer?
originally, yes tenor is male. but I was told that yes there is female tenors, just not alot like saprano, 2nd saprano, and alto. I was considered an alto last year, but after being assigned a solo, my director said i was more of a tenor than a alto, due to the fact that my solo was originally a tenor solo. I'm the only girl in my group that is a female tenor, so they are not many of us in choirs.
What are the levels of choir voices?
There are four basic voices in a mixed choir: two female voices: Soprano (high-pitched) and Alto (low), and two male voices: Tenor (high) and Bass (low). Sometimes intermediary voices are added: Mezzo-soprano between Soprano and Alto and Baritone between Tenor and Bass. At other times the male voices may all be combined into a single part. Additionally any of the voice parts may be split up further. In that case the voices are most commonly referred to as first Soprano, second Soprano, first Alto etc. Usually only the four basic voices are subdivided this way, though the second Soprano voice may be referred to as Mezzo-Soprano and the first Bass voice as Baritone. Of course male choirs only have the Tenor, Baritone and Bass voices and female choirs only the Soprano, Mezzo-soprano and Alto voices. An exception is in some types of ancient music (from the renaissance and earlier) where the Alto parts are sung by very high pitched tenors. These are known as Counter-tenors, they sing with the so-called falsetto voice. This practice is quite common in English choirs.
